Kitchen Design

The palette is settled before the drawings are finished, and it starts from how the kitchen will be used rather than from a mood board. Worktops in stone or quartz are chosen for what gets spilled on them, cabinet boxes are specified to stay stable in humidity, and every finish under consideration comes as a sample you can see in the actual room, under the actual light. A colour that works in a showroom can read entirely differently on a wall facing west. Deciding this early is what keeps the later stages from being revisited.

Every project is rendered before it goes into production, so the layout, the lighting and the materials can be judged as they will look rather than as they read on a plan. That is when it becomes obvious that a tall unit blocks a window, that two finishes fight each other, or that the island is a hundred millimetres too long. Changes at that stage cost a redraw. The same changes after installation cost a cabinet. This is the point where it is worth taking time rather than agreeing quickly.