Fitzroy Terrace Kitchen

The brief

The brief was familiar and difficult: a 4.6-metre-wide terrace, a north-facing courtyard, and a client who cooks seriously but wanted nothing on the bench. The answer was to give the back wall entirely to joinery — ovens, fridge, pantry and coffee all behind full-height Polytec WOODMATT doors — so the room reads as a single timber plane with one Caesarstone Calacatta Nuvo island in front of it.

Because the terrace is narrow, every millimetre of the island was set out against the walkway behind it: 900mm clear, no more. The benchtop returns down the end and dies into the WOODMATT of the adjacent wall, which meant templating and installing the Calacatta Nuvo after the cabinetry was fixed rather than before. The result is a kitchen that photographs as almost empty, and works hard every night.