Contemporary Kitchen with Beige Splashback Design Ideas

A contemporary holiday home located on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula featuring rammed earth walls, timber lined ceilings and flagstone floors. This home incorporates strong, natural elements and the joinery throughout features custom, stained oak timber cabinetry and natural limestone benchtops. With a nod to the mid century modern era and a balance of natural, warm elements this home displays a uniquely Australian design style. This home is a cocoon like sanctuary for rejuvenation and relaxation with all the modern conveniences one could wish for thoughtfully integrated.

This bulthaup b3 kitchen by bulthaupMayfair incorporates cabinets in aluminium sand beige with touch catch openings to give a handle free clean look. The open section of the tall unit run has pocket doors with an oak veneer interior area for small appliances & convenient storage which can be left open when in use. The rear of the island serves as a bar area with Carl Hansen stools in oak and leather. With high ceilings and beautiful period details the minimal style of the kitchen allows the character of the space to show through. Images by Adam Parker, Building Images

A sleek clean family kitchen created to be the heart of the home.

This stunning contemporary kitchen combines sleek design with functional elegance. Featuring clean lines, a neutral colour palette, and a blend of wood tones with matte black accents, it offers a modern yet warm ambience. The spacious island with quartz benchtops and pendant lighting creates a perfect gathering spot, while integrated appliances and open shelving add both style and practicality. Ideal for those who love a minimalist, sophisticated, beautiful, and highly functional kitchen.

Placing some accessories on the benchtops draws the eye to the back of the kitchen. The beautiful bar chairs also adds additional seating space in this small apartment.

Roundhouse Urbo and Metro random walnut veneer kitchen with granite worksurfaces. Led light strips by Mr Resistor in warm white.

Located on the dramatic North Cornwall coast and within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the clients for this remarkable contemporary family home shared our genuine passion for sustainability, the environment and ecology. One of the first Hempcrete block buildings in Cornwall, the dwelling’s unique approach to sustainability employs the latest technologies and philosophies whilst utilising traditional building methods and techniques. Wherever practicable the building has been designed to be ‘cement-free’ and environmentally considerate, with the overriding ambition to have the capacity to be ‘off-grid’. Wood-fibre boarding was used for the internal walls along with eco-cork insulation and render boards. Lime render and plaster throughout complete the finish. Externally, there are concrete-free substrates to all external landscaping and a natural pool surrounded by planting of native species aids the diverse ecology and environment throughout the site. A ground Source Heat Pump provides hot water and central heating in conjunction with a PV array with associated battery storage. Photographs: Stephen Brownhill

Stone and timber again. This time in the kitchen with a shark-nose edge to the stone benchtop and solid timber doors. Oversized vitrified ceramic floor tiles make the space indestructible. © Justin Alexander

Holme Tree created a stunning open plan walnut kitchen in this Staffordshire home that has it all - style, quality and functionality. With its walnut in-frame cabinetry contrasting with the light surfaces and flooring. The design incorporated the structural steel post making it look amazing as part of the iconic kidney-bean island. Holme Tree designs for each individual client, we pay careful attention to the unusual design features of your home. Let us create a stunning design for your home.

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.