Mid-Century Kitchen Design

Mid-Century Kitchen Design - Norwich

The Brief

Our brief was to design a kitchen diner with plenty of built in storage, a dining table and a sofa area to make full use of the garden views in a long rectangular space. Mid century detailing was required with an overall bright, light and modern feel.

About The Project

‘This is a traditional Victorian property and has a typical long, narrow kitchen at the back of the house which has been extended at some point. It felt quite dark and narrow with some awkward recesses and angles, but with potential to be really lovely with some careful design work.

In order to create more usable storage space, I made the decision to build a stud wall all along the left hand side of the room. My clients had to trust me on this as initially it looked like I was making an already narrow room even narrower. However, building this wall meant I could create a new cupboard to house the washing machine and tumble dryer hidden behind a door, and floor to ceiling built-in kitchen cabinetry and appliances, together with open shelves

All the dark shadow gaps and awkward angles were lost, leaving a clean-lined space with ample built-in storage. This creates the illusion of a better proportioned and wider room. Simplicity, as they say, is the height of sophistication!

On the other side of the kitchen, I designed suspended boxing-in to conceal mood lighting running the whole length of the room, and this tied in with the lower ceiling height of the extended dining area. I also created bespoke canopy area to house the extractor hood. The breakfast bar at the end of the kitchen run creates more much needed work surface area and also helps divide the social seating and dining end of the room from the working kitchen. We supplied and fitted new solid hard wood French

doors more in keeping with the Victorian property which open out fully to maximise the inside-outside space in the summer.

We kept the colour palette light and bright with white kitchen doors and brass hardware, Carrara White marble effect quartz worktops, and then herringbone-style oak effect flooring. Solid oak shelves and mantel added some warmth and texture. Soft furnishings and pictures in a mid-century style add splashes of colour and the black and brass Tom Dixon pendant lights create beautiful geometric silhouettes against the light background'.

Rebecca Coulby

What Our Client Says

We contacted Rebecca about a full-house renovation and how best to break the work down into more manageable chunks. Our initial consultations were fantastic, creative and in-depth, with Rebecca reviewing the whole house, our preferences, priorities, tastes and needs.

She produced amazing designs for our first chunk of work, to the living room and kitchen, covering almost the whole ground floor. Her ideas transformed both the rooms, making an awkward living/dining room feel like one lovely big living room, and making the kitchen/diner contain all the practical storage and space we needed. The designs completely fit our modern/modernist/minimalist/nordic style and we were extremely excited to get the work done.

The quality of the work itself was outstanding. I feel like I don't trust anyone else to touch the house now! Everything is high quality, solidly built and beautifully done. As we both work from home, we're here all the time and it makes a huge difference to our quality of life. We can't wait to get the next round of work done and massive thanks to Rebecca, Lloyd and the team. We won't be using anyone other than Coulby Interiors to do future work. THANK YOU!

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