Journal

Notes from the studio.

Long reads on planning, materials and the details that make a kitchen work. 9 articles, written to be read slowly.

Planning · 5 min read

Plan a kitchen around how you cook

Before choosing a colour or a stone, we ask what happens in the room between six and eight in the evening.

Marble, limestone, quartzite or engineered stone: how each one ages, and which is right for how you live.

A drawer brings the contents to you. A cupboard asks you to go and find them.

How one run of joinery can hold a real kitchen, in a studio flat, a guest annexe or a hotel suite, without taking over the room.

Every surface changes with use. The useful question is not whether a finish will age, but how, and whether you will like it.

Daylight, task light and evening light do different jobs. A kitchen that plans all three works at noon and feels warm at ten at night.

The quietest details in a kitchen are the ones that take the most work. Here is what sits behind a handleless front and a fluted panel.

Six steps, one team. What happens at each stage of a kitchen project, and what we need from you along the way.

Natural materials are easy to look after once you know a few habits. A simple guide to keeping stone and oak at their best.

Tell us about it and we will tell you how we would approach it.