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Plain English Design Creates Stylish Kitchen with Timeless Appeal – Robb Report

Kitchens have to push against preconceived notions. They must perform as entertaining spaces and sites of culinary excellence. They sell homesand define “lifestyles”—but really, deep down, all we want is a place that functions well and looks good when things get messy.

Lately, we’ve been pulling away from certain expectations. While the kitchen as a showpiece (and gracious amphitheater) feels like an outdated concept, it has been innocently replaced with farmhouse touches and a blast of white tile. Which begs the question: Can the kitchen escape the eternal grip of trends?

This London project from bespoke artisan kitchen company Plain English Designreminds us what remarkable things can happen when design pushes beyond the prevailing go-to look and simply suits a space. The brand, which recently opened its first US showroom in New York, was asked to take a unique approach. “They were looking for something different, unusual and contemporary,” says Tony Niblock, Plain English Managing Director & Co-Founder, of the clients, both collectors. “[The home] is in an old-school house in Marylebone and the client gave us great flexibility to create a design that would preserve the open plan and expose some of the existing materials.”

The kitchen is located on one end of the main assembly hall, while the remaining ground floor has a dining area and expansive living space with a display area for the owners’ collection of art. With uninterrupted sightlines and expanse, the effect is similar to a New York loft, explains Niblock. The overall style isn’t typical for Plain English, which is known for their handcrafted cupboards and Georgian aesthetic. “To design a very clean look, we used our Osea cupboards as floor cupboards, which is something we don’t do very often. This creates a real sense of furniture rather than a fitted kitchen to keep the space feeling light and airy. The sleek steel shelves also add a sense of space and stop the kitchen from feeling too enclosed. We also kept to a materials palette of painted wood, blackened and stainless steel, marble and brass,” he says.

Given that the home is located in a historic Victorian building, a few compromises had to be made. The team discovered that the wall concealing the laundry room was structural and therefore couldn’t be moved. Instead, it was put to use housing the refrigerator, freezer, and ovens, as well as serving as a good way to hide a few of the bulkier cupboards. As a result, the focus is on the floor cupboards and metal cupboards—fortuitous, as this is one of the first few projects where Plain English has featured them. “The client wanted something different and loved the look of the steel which will patina over time,” says Niblock.

Most kitchens are the sum of their parts, and this particular space highlights the point. The designers leaned on the Osea design, a simple Shaker-style door that echoes the company’s classic Spitalfields and Long House cabinetry. A series of elements—like handmade steel handles, thick worktops, and the perfect shade of white (called Boiled Dishcloth and culled from Plain English’s paint collection)—converged as more than just stylish details. Each one works to support the broader design. With open concept living, the design challenge lies in the ability to seamlessly integrate the various areas like the pantry, kitchen, dining, and living areas,” says Niblock. “Rather than a room having character on its own, there is something to be said about tying in a several design elements across rooms/areas to ensure a balanced space.”

Carrera marble surface tempers any overtly traditional moments and the team crafted a metal shelving unit, which infuses some rough industrial attitudeinto the space while also separating the kitchen from the living space. Plain English also created a coffee/bar area that lives opposite main galley. A single pane of glass indulges the client’s request for something above average for this area. Yet practicality also reigns, as the screen can conceal a coffee machine or other unsightly essentials. “The process was very experiential as we replaced the glass twice in order to get the right level of opaqueness,” reveals Niblock. Which might be the ideal metaphor for the kitchen: Cool and unpretentious takes time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Beautiful Rooms – Mad About The House

Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes.

burgundy and wood image via conran + partners

Take this, for example, it’s an Art Deco waterfront bar in Copenhagen, refurbished by Conran + Partners. Now clearly, we can’t all be hanging wooden boats over our kitchen islands, but the colours of this are just divine. That deep burgundy colour with black accents and natural wood… As you will see below I am contemplating a green kitchen but then I see this colour again and I wonder….

The German Gymnasium by Conran +Partners photography by a group including Marcus Peel, Paul Winch-Furness and Jean Cazals

And this must surely be the current contender for the bathroom of dreams. Yes marble and brass has been around for a while but make it feel fresh again with the addition of this fabulous circus wallpaper. I haven’t been able to track this paper down but if anyone knows then do tell us in the comments below.

coffee bar in boston showroom of waterworks.com

This kitchen is in the Boston showroom of Waterworks and could totally be used as inspiration for a scheme at home. Tiling the island works really well if you don’t have to use it for storage (as I do) and I am increasingly taken with the idea of tiled walls in kitchens as well.

bathroom by tineke triggs of adlsf.com

Back to bathrooms and proving once again that you can’t go wrong with a monochrome scheme as the base and then you can layer whatever other colours you fancy. I appreciate that just as we can’t all hang a boat over the island, nor can most of us fit a chaise longue into the bathroom but imagine a set of green towels instead. Or burgundy ones. Or terracotta… you get the idea.

black industrial style bathroom by Amy Wilson of @thisstylerocks

Talking of bathrooms this is fabulous by Amy Wilson of This Style Rocks and No House Rules. Also a monochrome scheme but perhaps more black that white. There is so much to love in this bathroom, which apparently isn’t even finished yet (you can see the wires hanging down which will have brass lights fitted as soon as Amy can get hold of her electrician), that I barely know where to start. The Crittall style shower enclosure , the black taps and the hexagonal tile splashback.

pink panellled bathroom of Katie Woods from @comedowntothewoods

But then there’s the bathroom of Katie Woods, of Come Down To The Woods, and co-founder of No House Rules (what is is about these women and bathrooms?). Dark panelling, patterned monochrome floor tiles and a pink bath in front of the window. This too is a bathroom of dreams. And don’t worry if your own bathrooms are small. Firstly – you can always use some pattern – sometimes a big, bold pattern will distract from the size and secondly just use the colours. Paint the ceiling pink if you haven’t room for a bath. Or add pink towels.

davonport kitchen in ekbb mag February issue

Now I was talking earlier about green kitchens. I’m definitely pondering whether this is the way forward. My current kitchen is painted in a dark blue black. It was meant to be very, very, very dark grey. But not quite black. It has come out a sort of navy blue. I love it. But now I wonder if I fancy it green. Or proper black? As I mentioned above I also love burgundy but somehow a burgundy kitchen doesn’t seem right. What do you think?

green kitchen by naked kitchens

This green and brass beauty by Naked Kitchens was the first one I saw and it is dreamy. The simplicity of the style with round holes for handles allows for a deeper, more unusual colour. Sadly I have no need of a splashback in mine but that is a colour combination that is fabulous with the pale marble worktop.

neptune green kitchen 

Or perhaps this dark Neptune version is more to your taste. Acutally what I love here is the painted brick wall and I haven’t got one of those either but the overall effect is one I could happily do business with. Or what about this one by Plain English? I wouldn’t paint the walls dark so I suspect this is more the sort of effect I would end up with.

plain english osea kitchen green

But maybe, just maybe, it’s not about the kitchen after all. Maybe what I actually want is to paint the sitting room dark green instead of dark grey. Oh living this fantasy decorating life can be quite hard work at times.

Kate Watson-Smyth

I'm a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

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