Transitional Kitchen Transitional Kitchen, London

The main design principle was to keep the room feeling as light and calm as possible, and to create spaces that allowed the parents to enjoy every minute of their spare time with the kids.“The owners didn’t want anything too shiny or white, which I was thrilled about,” Dadswell says. “They wanted to incorporate some wood, so we chose a smoked oak, and they were both really keen on blue.”Conscious that blue could overpower the room and look dated in a few years, Dadswell asked the kitchen company to spray several shades on sample boards to find exactly the right color. “It needed to have just the right amount of subtlety and gray in it,” Dadswell says. “The room still feels very light, as we went with a very pale gray on the walls, but it doesn’t feel cold or bland.”Custom cabinets: Bells; cabinet paint: Borrowed Light, Farrow & Ball; porcelain floor tile: Regal in matte Vanilla, Topps Tiles