Bespoke Kitchen Design in a Contemporary Home Extension

How To Create The Perfect Kitchen?

The kitchen at Kingswood had reached the point where it was actively working against the people using it. There was not enough worktop to prepare a proper meal, let alone the generous expanse of clear surface that serious home cooking demands. Appliances competed for space. The fridge freezer dominated the room visually. Wall cabinets broke up the space and made it feel smaller and more cluttered than it needed to be. For a household that loves to cook, and where making sourdough at the kitchen counter is part of the rhythm of daily life, the existing kitchen was a constant source of low-level frustration.
The clients needed a kitchen that understood how they cooked, how they entertained, and how they spent time together. One that would give them generous worktop space, proper storage that kept the visual clutter out of sight, and a room that was as pleasant to be in as it was practical to use.

A Bespoke Kitchen With a Place for Everything and Nothing on Show

Simon Mack Architecture worked closely with skilled joiners to design and deliver every element of the new kitchen, a collaboration that allowed the design to be resolved in precise detail, from the overall layout down to the choice of ironmongery.
The palette is simple and beautifully considered: warm birch plywood cabinetry paired with a white Corian surface, brought to life by the quiet richness of brass ironmongery. It is a combination that feels contemporary without being cold, and crafted without being ostentatious. The white and birch work together to keep the space light and calm, whilst the brass adds a warmth and materiality that lifts the whole interior.
The decision to remove wall cabinets entirely was central to the design. Without them, the walls are clear, the room breathes, and the kitchen feels significantly more spacious than its footprint alone would suggest. In their place, a full-height larder, the quiet hero of the project, provides generous, organised storage for all food, all appliances and, crucially, the fridge freezer. Everything has a home. Everything can be closed away. The kitchen surfaces and walls remain calm and uncluttered, ready to be used properly.
The result is a working kitchen with long, generous worktop runs: space to prepare, space to knead, space to lay out ingredients without compromise. Designed from the inside out, as all good kitchens should be.

A Kitchen Worth Spending Time In

Kingswood is a reminder that bespoke joinery, designed with care and made with skill, can transform the most-used room in a home entirely. The kitchen is now a genuinely pleasurable place to cook, with room to work, room to gather, and a calm, considered aesthetic that makes it equally well suited to a quiet weekday morning and a relaxed evening of entertaining.
The larder keeps the room tidy without effort. The absence of wall cabinets keeps the space feeling open and generous. The birch plywood and brass bring warmth to a palette that could easily have felt clinical. And the long, uninterrupted worktop, at last, gives the sourdough the space it deserves.
This is what a bespoke kitchen should do: not simply look beautiful, but make cooking, eating and being together feel effortful in all the right ways and effortless in all the ones that matter.