The previous kitchen was a jumble of idiosyncrasies with the minimal view to the rear garden interrupted by head height cabinets jutting into your eye-line. It is a narrow room and a thoroughfare to the back yard. We wanted to open up the whole east side of the house - the living and dining space to encompass the kitchen and this link to outdoors. I needed to be very thoughtful about the views. What appears to be a ‘light-touch’, clean solution is the result of going down several different paths first. Initially the space seemed too narrow for a conventional island. But by considering an island element as a freestanding ‘piece of furniture’, narrow and long, timber growing out of the timber floor, with critical rounded ends so it doesn’t appear to intrude into the path of travel, a solution emerged that feels like it completely belongs in the space.
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