Cook's Room Northumberland
A Line of Green
A pale room with one colour in it, carried at eye level by a band of dark green glass and the tall units beside it.
Everything in the room is the same pale cream, doors and worktops both, which leaves one band at eye level to do all the work. That band is dark green glass, run behind the hob and along the sink wall, and it is the only thing you see from the door that is not the colour of the walls.
The tall units take the same green so the colour reads as a decision rather than a splashback. They hold the ovens and the larder, and setting them a shade darker than everything around them is what stops a wall of full-height doors looking like a wall.
The peninsula turns the end of the run into somewhere to sit. It takes the stone down to the floor at the open end rather than stopping it at the cupboard, so from the sitting room side it reads as a piece of furniture and not the back of a kitchen.
One band at eye level, in a room where everything else is the same pale cream.
The Room
What It Is Made Of
- Cabinetry
- Hand-painted shaker in cream, with the tall units in green
- Worktops
- Pale stone, carried down to the floor at the open end of the peninsula
- Splashback
- Dark green toughened glass, behind the hob and the sink run
- Sink
- Ceramic, with drainer grooves cut into the stone
- Tap
- Brushed steel, with boiling water
- Seating
- Peninsula with stools, and a wine cabinet in the end
- Floor
- Oak boards
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