Cream Kitchen with a Glass Rack

A kitchen designed and visualised for a client in Poland, in a narrow room of about 2.7 × 4.2 m. The worktop runs as a U around the window, with the hob, dishwasher and sink along the window wall, and the tall units stand on the opposite wall: an eye-level oven with an open microwave niche above it, the fridge-freezer and a tall larder.

Odd leftover widths became storage instead of fillers: a 187 mm gap holds a two-level pull-out and a 327 mm one an open spice niche. On the short return the counter is open underneath, a corner for the dog’s bowls, and above it a wooden shelf holds twelve wine glasses by the stem, with an LED along its front edge so the light falls through the glass. The larder’s single tall door carries its own rack of jars and bottles on two castors, and the plinth under the wine unit has a gap so a robot vacuum can drive through.

The fronts are framed and matt cream (RAL 9001) with nickel bar handles. The client chose to leave the microwave niche open and the steel chimney hood unboxed. All wall units end on one line at 1.5 m, with a panel under them that hides the LED strips. The quartz worktop is mitred at both inner corners and carries on as the window sill. The same fronts continue into a hallway wardrobe with a lit, wood-lined niche for coats.