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Rough-sawn oak wardrobes and a handleless kitchen in Sandbanks

By Thomas Matthew

In a contemporary house above the harbour in Sandbanks, the joinery had to be as quiet as the architecture, with one exception. In the main bedroom, a whole wall of wardrobe doors is faced in rough-sawn oak, stained dark and laid in a diagonal grain.

What we made

The surface is deep and tactile, and it catches the light almost like hide. Open a door and the inside is lit, with shelves and drawers in the same dark timber.

The kitchen is handleless, in a dark graphite finish: a long island with the hob set into it, and a run of tall cabinets with the ovens built in. Across the room, a wall of pale timber holds the television, a linear fire and lit display niches, so the screen sits inside the design rather than on it. Beside the stairs, an open oak bookcase, shelved from both sides, divides the living space without closing it off.

In the bathrooms, the dark timber carries on into wall-hung vanities, so bedroom and bath belong together. Each piece was drawn for its own wall and made a few miles away, in our Poole workshop.

Bedroom wall of wardrobes in dark-stained, rough-sawn oak veneer, the doors laid in a diagonal grain pattern, at the foot of the bed

Gallery

Close view along the wardrobe doors in dark-stained, rough-sawn oak veneer, showing the sawn texture and the diagonal grain
Two wardrobe doors in dark-stained, rough-sawn oak veneer meeting at a recessed pull, the grain running in opposing diagonals
Wardrobe opened to show lit shelves and drawers inside, in the same dark oak as the doors
Living room wall in pale vertical timber with a recessed television, a linear fire and lit display niches
Open-plan living room with the pale timber media wall on one side and glazing onto the harbour on the other
Display niches set into the timber media wall above a linear fire
The media wall and its niches seen through the shelves of the oak bookcase
Open oak bookcase dividing the living room from the stairs, shelved on both sides with books and paintings
Oak bookcase wrapping the staircase, with the timber media wall beyond
Open-plan kitchen with a dark handleless island, a run of tall cabinets with built-in ovens, and the dining area beyond
Dark handleless island with a gas hob set into a white stone worktop, and a matching run of base units with a mirrored splashback
Wall-hung dark timber vanity unit with a white basin top and a wall-mounted tap
Shower room with a walk-in shower and a tall dark timber cupboard fitted above the units

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