Dream Kitchen Design

When creating your luxury dream kitchen design, we will take the time to understand how you use the space in your home. By defining zones for working, cooking, eating, relaxing and socialising, your home will become more versatile and allow all members of the family to spend time together more easily.

In terms of design trends, there’s a balance to strike between making contemporary style choices without being swayed by passing fashions that may soon look dated. That’s why we always support our clients in choosing materials, colours and styles that they love for their luxury dream kitchen design, because what you love is far less likely to change.

1. Traditional Shaker kitchens

Traditional shaker style doors are ever popular in luxury dream kitchen design, but instead of finishing with circular button handles, our clients often choose to declutter their luxury dream kitchen design with ‘push to open’ functionality for a handleless design that gives the clean lines favoured by contemporary style.

2. Contemporary modern kitchens

To create a stress free, contemporary modern kitchen, opt for streamlined design. Continued runs of units will naturally extend the design line, either with handleless or rail handle design. Plan small appliances to be housed inside purpose built cupboards and optimise storage to keep work surfaces clear in your dream kitchen design.

3. Kitchen design colours

When choosing colour for your dream kitchen design, blues, greys, browns and greens in dusty natural tones of slate, taupe, olive and mushroom continue to be popular. For a bolder style statement, pair these soft tones with opulent regency hues of navy, moss, pewter and ocre. Rich oak and walnut floors and cabinetry will bring warmth and texture to your design.

4. Accessibility

Your dream kitchen should make your life easier and safer, with attention to all aspects of how you want to use your space. Eye level ovens, refrigerators and appliances can make cooking more convenient and safer for working too. Varied worktop heights make food preparation more comfortable, and deep drawers allow easy access to cookware, crockery and ingredients when cooking. Seating and table access, relaxation space, access between doorways, islands, peninsulas and doorways are also crucial in designing a safe space that is easy and enjoyable to work in.

5. Effective extraction

If your kitchen is open to the living areas of your home, then powerful hob extraction is crucial to avoid those unwanted kitchen odours from clinging to your soft furnishings. There are a variety of emerging technologies, but we continue to favour BORA’s cooktop extractor which keeps the space above the hob clear at eyeline and achieves a 100% clean air rate.

6. Kitchen worktops

There are a wealth of kitchen worktop materials available, from natural wood, stone and granite, to manufactured concrete, stainless steels and quartz composites. Each offers pros and cons including colour, finish, thickness, sustainability, durability, heat resistance, cost, antibacterial properties, and required maintenance. Consider how you want to use your kitchen and decide which qualities are most important to you.

7. Lighting

When planning lighting in your kitchen design, choose task lighting for preparation areas where you’re chopping and cooking, and make these lights dimmable to create ambient lighting while you’re eating or relaxing. Bold statement lighting creates design interest and can highlight exciting features.

8. Undermounted sinks

Seamless joining of sinks to the worktop are practical, hygienic and elegant in luxury dream kitchen design. Achievable in a variety of materials from stainless steel to quartz, you can choose the colour and style to suit your dream kitchen design approach.

9. Taps

Fixings such as handles and taps provide the finishing touches to your dream kitchen design. Consider safety and practicality with easy to use swing arm function or a simple button press, and explore the variety of materials including gun metal, zinc, copper and nickel to add complementing design features.

10. Kitchen technology

Innovative solutions make everyday life easier continue to improve the way we use tech in our kitchens. Fridges that prolong the life of our fresh ingredients, steam ovens that can be programmed by a mobile phone app, touchscreen controls; we are excited to see what the future holds for luxury dream kitchen design – worktop surfaces that can be used as a cooking surface maybe?!