Churchwood Design -
Kitchen Project Gallery
Below is a selection of recent kitchen projects demonstrating the levels of craftsmanship and design versatility of Churchwood Design.
From traditional farmhouse and town-house style kitchens, through to more contemporary in-frame kitchen solutions; anything is possible when you combine design and manufacturing experience with beautiful materials and the skills of the master cabinet maker.
Walnut & Painted Kitchen
This commission successfully blended traditional and contemporary styling. The many curves serve to ‘soften’ the furniture’s lines and add visual interest to this large-family kitchen, dining and socialising space.
The island features a radius end-integrated butchers block and a breakfast bar. A separate curved bench dining arrangement is immediately adjacent to it - crafted from matching walnut.
Painted Farmhouse Kitchen
This large, painted farmhouse kitchen is made from painted hardwood - in a custom paint shade.
The capacious pantry cupboard acts as a central store for all cooking ingredients and condiments. The kitchen also features additional pieces of furniture to include a dining table, sideboard and dresser.
Natural Pippy Oak Kitchen
This beautiful kitchen has light flooding into it from the garden and this serves to highlight and enrich the wonderful, honey coloured Pippy Oak with its amazing patina. Some call it ‘Catspaw oak’ because of its close cluster pattern of knots - resembling a cats paw print.
Edwardian Style Kitchen in an Oak & Painted Finish
This kitchen was specially designed to match the properties period architectural details such as the original internal doors, skirting and window shutters.
Created from Pippy Oak and contrasting paint finish - the kitchen looks wonderful with the result that it feels as though its always been there!
Two tone & Oak Kitchen
This isn’t an especially large kitchen - but it perfectly illustrates that with bespoke cabinet flexibility and a vibrant paint shade, you can make the most of a space to create a functional - yet eye catching kitchen.
The tall oak wall cabinetry conceals refrigeration, freezer and microwave appliance and the small island manages to incorporate storage, cook-book shelving and a breakfast bar.
Country Cottage - Catspaw Oak Kitchen
For this small, rustic country cottage, a simplistic and almost ‘unfitted’ approach was taken so as not to detract from the character of the property.
Cats -paw (or pippy oak) was used along with what’s known as a ‘Chamfered Shaker’ door style. The simplistic shelving provides storage for jars, pans and utensils without hiding the delightful stone wall whilst the pantry cupboard serves as a central store for all cooking ingredients.
Moulded, Painted Shaker - Galley Kitchen
This project just goes to show how made to measure cabinetry can make a small space, such as this galley kitchen, work.
The bracket feet design and moulded Shaker door design gives an Edwardian look-just perfect for this period town-house.
To avoid boring straight runs, the cabinetry is stepped in and out to maintain visual interest whilst the end of one run of cabinets form a useful breakfast bar / peninsular.
Note how the bi-fold wall cabinet design prevents the door from encroaching into the narrow walking space.
Simple, Cock-Beaded - Painted Shaker
This holiday let, originally an old out-building, presented quite a small space to deal with. However, the result just goes to show that a kitchen doesn’t have to be huge to create that certain ‘WOW’ factor!
Too many wall cabinets would have crowded the space; instead, a simple shelf system was devised that could be dressed with crockery and ornaments to add a touch of visual interest and additional colour.
Despite only being a small kitchen, between to the tall units to the left and the run of base units, the kitchen delivers not only plenty of storage, but also, the perfect working triangle with integrated oven, hob, sink and integrated fridge freezer (within the tall cabinetry on the left) in close proximity to each other.
The Farrow and Ball ‘Railings’ paint shade, contrasting white quartz tops and brass accessories give thissmall kitchen added impact.
Modern, In-frame and Handleless
Yes….! You can achieve a clean modern design with in-frame cabinetry!
The added benefit is that you get the clean, linear look BUT with all the construction virtues offered by the master cabinet maker. In this instance, this includes solid oak interiors, dovetailed drawer boxes and furniture that’s been made to measure so that it’s perfectly in proportion with the rooms dimension.
The clean design has been achieved with concealed hinges and a combination of ‘push to open’ cupboards and concealed handle-drawer boxes.
Whilst only a small apartment kitchen, the design cleverly integrates all the modern appliances one could need as well as a peninsula breakfast bar - perfect for that morning coffee and read in the papers!
The Shepherds Hut Project
We get asked to work on some truly wonderful and interesting properties BUT how about a Shepherd’s hut?
For such a small and compact living space a combination of bespoke cabinet sizes and clever design is very much called for in order to fully utilise every available square inch of space! Using a combination of catspaw oak and painted wood, I think we succeeded in creating a wonderful, inviting holiday retreat that we think any of us would be happy to spend time in!
Fancy a Shepherds hut retreat all of your very own? If so, take a look at ‘Pinfold Shepherd Huts.’
Bright, Classical and simple….Perfect for this Narrow Kitchen Space
This relatively narrow kitchen space could have easily become over crowded with too many wall cabinets and an island; - both of which the client was keen to have in order to create enough storage and a social dining element.
However, a combination of tall storage at the far end (some of which hides a boiler, washer and dryer), shelving, a peninsular breakfast bar as well as light paint shades and stone worktops, provided the perfect solution.
The end result looks bright and inviting with oak accent detailing in the form of the shelving and slide out trays - matching the cabinets oak interior.
Cottage Simplicity and Shades of Blue
Sometimes an honest, simplistic approach is the one that is not only best suited to the property, but also, the one that has the most visual appeal - and this was certainly the case with this Edwardian cottage.
The kitchen looks inviting and has that feel of belonging to the property, yet it still encompasses all modern appliances, carefully concealed within the cabinetry. With small kitchen, such as those found within cottages, having enough storage can be difficult. However, not in this case! The tall wall cabinetry conceals a fridge freezer and a central larder. with yet more cupboard storage above - accessed with the custom made, period ladder.
Somehow an island would have looked out of place; instead a wonderful scrubbed pine table adds a visual contrast to the cabinetry’s painted finish and provides that ‘cosy home’ feel. Did you know that Churchwood Design can make and supply such pieces of free standing furniture?
A Total Catspaw Refurb in Berkshire!
This client had a huge task on their hands! The 7 bedroom detached house, dating from around 1930, needed a complete, back to brick, renovation. This was grate for us because not only were we starting with a blank canvas, but also, having seen many of the projection that we had been involved with over the years, the client was completely open to suggestion.
The large main kitchen was crafted from Pippy (or Catspaw ) oak, using a chamfered Shaker door design. Its wonderful honey coloured patina has been beautifully complemented by the dark granite tops and upstands and range cooker with matching colour tone.
As you can see, this kitchen is not only supremely practical - with plenty of storage and integrated appliances, but also, it will make a wonderful family / socialising space with its long island……..it just needs half a dozen or more stools and a little wine in the chiller!