Full kitchen remodel
Marble Waterfall Island
A load-bearing wall came out to open the ground floor, then a honed marble island was set against oak veneer and handleless white units.
The room is 2.1 metres wide and nothing about it is square, which rules out flat-pack. Every carcass was cut in our workshop to the measurements we took on site, so the run finishes tight to both walls with no filler panels holding it together.
Doors made, not bought
The shaker doors are solid tulipwood, sprayed in a soft sage and hand-finished. Aged brass cup handles and a matching bridge tap keep the metalwork consistent from one end of the run to the other.
Storage that suits a galley
Wall units would have closed the room in, so we used one shallow shelf and put the volume underneath: full-extension pan drawers, a pull-out larder beside the oven, and a plinth drawer for trays and baking sheets.
The worktop
A 20mm quartz in a warm white, with a shallow upstand instead of tiles so there is one less grout line to clean in a room this narrow.
