We love this truly sociable kitchen which has been designed using to our bespoke Shaker range. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tailored to perfection to suit the family’s lifestyle, the island is the ideal spot for informal dining from early morning breakfasts to weekday suppers while there’s also space for a more formal dining table where friends and family can gather for delicious feasts

New butlers pantry.

JKE Design / The Blue Room

Lara Jane Thorpe

With a busy working lifestyle and two small children, Burlanes worked closely with the home owners to transform a number of rooms in their home, to not only suit the needs of family life, but to give the wonderful building a new lease of life, whilst in keeping with the stunning historical features and characteristics of the incredible Oast House.

This Classic Bespoke utility and boot room was designed and made for clients on the ground floor of a Georgian house next to the kitchen that we also designed. For this room, all furniture was handmade to fit the exact specification of the space. Our clients briefed us to design and make a handpainted traditional Shaker style utility and boot room with plenty of storage, a wet area, concealed broom cupboard, cupboards to house refrigeration and laundry and a pantry for dry goods and bottles. Also, a place for the dog to sleep. Utilising all the space in the room, owner, Darren Taylor designed a run of tall cabinetry to incorporate the pantry with internal oak pull-out drawers and bottle and spice racks fitted to the inside of the doors. Next to it is an integrated fridge freezer by Liebherr and next to that is a cupboard to house a Miele washing machine and stacked tumble dryer on top. This leads to a wet area with a 30mm Silestone worksurface in Snowy Ibiza and a Belfast sink and taps by Perrin and Rowe. Utility cupboards were designed beneath and further space along the run was dedicated to a reduced depth wine storage unit to line up with the window whilst maintaining good access from this room into the kitchen. Further cupboards were built on the other side of the room with a special space beneath for the dog bed. All cabinetry was handpainted in Blue Vein 676 by Paint and Paper Library.

A country kitchen in rural Pembrokeshire with breathtaking views and plenty of character. Under the striking low beamed ceiling, the Shaker cabinets are designed in an L-shape run with a large central freestanding island. The kitchen revolves around the generously proportioned Ash island acting as a prep table, a place to perch and plenty of storage. In keeping with the farmhouse aesthetic, the walk in pantry houses jams and jars with everything on show. Round the corner lies the utility space with an additional sink and white good appliances with a boot room on entry to the property for muddy wellies and raincoats.

After moving into their home three years ago, Mr and Mrs C left their kitchen to last as part of their home renovations. “We knew of Ream from the large showroom on the Gillingham Business Park and we had seen the Vans in our area.” says Mrs C. “We’ve moved twice already and each time our kitchen renovation has been questionable. We hoped we would be third time lucky? This time we opted for the whole kitchen renovation including the kitchen flooring, lighting and installation.” The Ream showroom in Gillingham is bright and inviting. It is a large space, as it took us over one hour to browse round all the displays. Meeting Lara at the showroom before hand, helped to put our ideas of want we wanted with Lara’s design expertise. From the initial kitchen consultation, Lara then came to measure our existing kitchen. Lara, Ream’s Kitchen Designer, was able to design Mr and Mrs C’s kitchen which came to life on the 3D software Ream uses for kitchen design. When it came to selecting the kitchen, Lara is an expert, she was thorough and an incredibly knowledgeable kitchen designer. We were never rushed in our decision; she listened to what we wanted. It was refreshing as our experience of other companies was not so pleasant. Ream has a very good range to choose from which brought our kitchen to life. The kitchen design had ingenious with clever storage ideas which ensured our kitchen was better organised. We were surprised with how much storage was possible especially as before I had only one drawer and a huge fridge freezer which reduced our worktop space. The installation was quick too. The team were considerate of our needs and asked if they had permission to park on our driveway. There was no dust or mess to come back to each evening and the rubbish was all collected too. Within two weeks the kitchen was complete. Reams customer service was prompt and outstanding. When things did go wrong, Ream was quick to rectify and communicate with us what was going on. One was the delivery of three doors which were drilled wrong and the other was the extractor. Emma, Ream’s Project Coordinator apologised and updated us on what was happening through calls and emails. “It’s the best kitchen we have ever had!” Mr & Mrs C say, we are so happy with it.

Photo: Chris Snook © 2014 Houzz

Photography by Shannon McGrath

Mudroom with farm house sink

Sue Stubbs