Cook's Kitchen, Hampshire, England Transitional Kitchen, Hampshire

Kitchen at a GlanceWho lives here: A family with teenage childrenLocation: Hampshire, EnglandSize: About 14½ by 25 feet, or 4½ by 7½ meters (about 362½ square feet, or 34 square meters)Functionality was key for the family, which includes an avid chef. This is reflected in the details, many of which can’t be appreciated from photographs alone. “I’d say 50 percent is the aesthetic and the other 50 percent is the unseen — what it’s like to open a door or cupboard and the sounds they make,” says Artichoke’s Petherick.Because the kitchen is part of an extension, there were limitations on the ceiling height; it had to be kept quite low. “We had to dispense with top cabinetry,” Petherick says. “But we don’t really like wall cupboards anyway — they are often overbearing and stop you doing fun things with the walls that are more attractive.” As a keen cook, one of the owners has a beautiful collection of copper pans, used on a regular basis. Keeping the shelving open has made the pans part of the design and easily accessible.Style Your Open Kitchen Shelving Like a Pro

4. Island style. This great hunk of an island unit is the star player in this country kitchen, which, you might not be surprised to learn, belongs to a professional cook. It has all the ingredients of a kitchen that’s ready for whipping up a culinary masterpiece, from the custom unit crafted of solid English oak that’s a table, workstation and storage unit to the beautiful beast of a copper range cooker and velvety-smooth Italian black basalt surfaces. This is a marriage of kitchen eye candy and function at its very best.

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