Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface.
Dining table in a small sunny yellow Pluck kitchen with a peninsula, shelving and glossy tile splashback.
Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface.
Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface.
Larder in a small sunny yellow Pluck kitchen with a peninsula, shelving and glossy tile splashback.
Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface. Dining table in a small sunny yellow Pluck kitchen with a peninsula, shelving and glossy tile splashback. Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface. Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface. Larder in a small sunny yellow Pluck kitchen with a peninsula, shelving and glossy tile splashback.
Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface.
Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface.
Small kitchen in South London with mustard yellow and pale beige cabinets including a peninsula, topped with a wood terrazzo surface.
Larder in a small sunny yellow Pluck kitchen with a peninsula, shelving and glossy tile splashback.

The Small South London Sunshine Kitchen

This kitchen is a little ray of sunshine, with yellow bringing such a cheery feel to the space and a colour palette that enhances the practical layout.

The footprint is small, so designing sufficient storage and worktop area, whilst keeping a sense of openness was the main challenge for this room. The wall to ceiling cupboards in Eccles tick boxes for cupboard space, incorporate a larder for consumables and house two ovens – the eye height level a key request from our clients. The soft cashmere Eccles reflects light and has lovely, warm undertones.

The second colour for the cabinetry is Market Mustard, a rich yellow which, when not bathed in sunlight, has an earthy feel to it. Indeed, the yellow of the lower cupboards grounds them, the relation to the paler colours elsewhere means a visual weight is added, one’s attention is drawn here. The contrast between the two Pluck hues gives a lightness to the tall cupboards, a clever tool for ensuring they do not dominate and loom over the room.

The peninsula demonstrates perfectly why this layout is so well suited for compact kitchens, providing an outward facing worktop and also a little extra cupboard space.

The Bora hob too, with integrated extraction, removing the need for bulky overhead extraction, is very handy for kitchens where space is tight.

Where to store cookbooks? Always a conundrum for domestic chefs who will undoubtedly have built up a collection over the years. The shelves in this design answer that problem, whilst softening the transition between kitchen and dining room, no abrupt cupboard side panel here.

Other interesting materials include glossy, uneven, Zellige-style tiles by Claybrook Studio that reflect light behind the hob. The worktops are timber terrazzo by Foresso, continuing the feeling of natural, soft finishes in this kitchen, with barely there green walls further connecting the palette to nature.
This kitchen has featured in Homes & Gardens online website and Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine.

Photographer: Pluck

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