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A green in-frame kitchen in Broadstone, with a bookcase in the island

By Thomas Matthew

One room in Broadstone does two jobs: cooking at one end, sitting at the other. So the kitchen had to look as good from the sofa as it does from the hob.

What we made

The island does it. Its back is a bookcase, so the people on the sofa face shelves of their own rather than the back of a cupboard. On the kitchen side it is deep green in-frame and carries the hob, with stools at one end, so whoever is cooking has company.

The run along the sink wall is the same green, with cream tall cupboards holding the ovens and a pale worktop over it all. Every cabinet was built in our Poole workshop. A full-height larder is lined in oak, with racks on the backs of its doors, and the drawers have oak boxes with fitted dividers inside.

Aged cup handles on the drawers and dark bar handles on the tall doors finish it quietly. Now the cooking and the sitting share one room, and neither gets in the other’s way.

Deep green in-frame island with the hob set into a pale worktop, the green sink run under the window beyond and cream tall cupboards at the side

Gallery

Cream in-frame tall cupboards with two built-in ovens, behind the green island with its bookcase end
The back of the green island built as a bookcase facing the sofa, with a wine rack beside the shelves of cookery books
Cream in-frame tall cupboards beside the green island, with the dining table and garden windows beyond
A wall of cream in-frame tall cupboards with built-in ovens, beside the glazed door to the hall
View from the sofa over the green island and its bookcase end, towards the sink run and the cream tall cupboards
The deep green sink run in the corner under the window, with the pale worktop over
Cream tall cupboards with built-in ovens, beside the island with stools at its end
Aged metal cup handles on deep green in-frame drawer fronts
Pair of tall cream in-frame cupboard doors with dark bar handles
Dark bar handles on the cream tall cupboard doors
The cream oven tower beside the doorway to the hall
Oak drawer box with fitted dividers, holding wooden spoons and rolling pins
An open green drawer with an aged cup handle, wooden spoons inside an oak drawer box
Close view of an oak drawer box inside a deep green in-frame drawer front
Dovetailed oak drawer box pulled out from the deep green cabinet
The full-height larder lined in oak, with spice and bottle racks on the backs of the doors
Oak-lined drawer with a cut-out pull, inside the cabinet
The oak-lined larder open beside the green island, with the dining area and garden windows beyond

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