The kitchen is the heart of the home and here we wanted to make it open and decluttered. The house is set in Canterbury and is a beautiful Victorian detached, with many period features.

The kitchen was designed with entertaining and a busy family in mind. It has stunning dark parquet flooring and dark bottom cabinets. As the kitchen is northeast facing it doesn’t get much sun so we painted the top cabinets lighter as a contrast. The kitchen was brought right up to date, whilst highlighting the beautiful bay window, original wooden cabinets and high mantlepiece.

There was nothing wrong with the washing machine to replace it other than it was the wrong colour and not integrated, so we opted to paint it the same colour as the cabinets so it wouldn’t stick out too much.

As you can see from the before photos at the bottom of the page the transformation is huge.