Bespoke Kitchen in Wiltshire

WILTSHIRE

This period home sits close to our design studio and workshop in Wiltshire. While a perfectly symmetrical kitchen space can make designing easy, it doesn’t offer any challenges. Many designers will tell you that often it’s the most challenging of spaces that test them, and ultimately result in the most interesting design.

In one such space Guild Anderson were commissioned to create a family sized kitchen, befitting the graded listing of the manor house, but creating a contemporary room for modern family life.

The previous handmade kitchen was functional, it worked but the room was disjointed. Our head of design, Nick, approached the space as he does with every design; by considering if there are any alterations to the kitchen space itself that would enhance the function of the space.

Farrow and Ball hand painted blue kitchen cabinets with large blue kitchen island

A large island bridges the challenging kitchen space

A blue bespoke kitchen cabinet mounted on a wall

The opposite end of the kitchen island

KITCHEN HIGHLIGHTS

Introducing Scottish elm to create a visual divide

Scottish elm bespoke kitchen cabinets with a butlers sink under a Georgian sash window

The kitchen scullery area was made in Scottish elm

FEATURES

New Kitchen Scullery in Scottish Elm

Freeing up the kitchen space allowed us to move the scullery sink to a better location. We positioned it to sit centrally below the Georgian six over six sash window which overlooks the front on the house. Either side of the sink are a bin cabinet, a dishwasher, plate drying rack and shelving.

Everything needed is at hand in this washing area with the cabinets designed and made in our workshops using Scottish Elm, a stunning contrast to the rest of the hand painted cabinetry which were painted in Paint & Paper Library ‘Kigali’.

hardwood kitchen scullery joins tall larder cabinet

Hardwood introduces a visual divide between kitchen scullery and storage

FEATURES

Demarcation between scullery and storage

With walls painted in Little Greene’s ‘Slaked Lime’ the addition of natural wood to this area adds texture and interest, setting it apart from the rest of the kitchen.

By keeping the style of both the wooden and painted cabinetry the same, the kitchen design comes together as an aesthetic whole.

Now, when you enter the kitchen, you are immediately greeted by a painted glazed cabinet housing glassware and crockery. Abutting this is a run of cabinetry with a pull-out larder, integrated Fisher & Paykel fridge freezer and larder cabinet. The AGA range cooker is now flanked by two drawer cabinets, and above these are individual wall cabinets, not standard width, but narrow and more subtle in their form.

A large blue hand painted kitchen island

Blue hand painted kitchen island with marble work surface

Bespoke hand painted blue open kitchen shelving

A bespoke kitchen design in Wiltshire such as this would not be complete without the stunning central island, housing cupboards, a cooker, as well as a seating area with bar stools. To establish some form of symmetry out of the awkward shaped room and to allow for a better flow a new floor of Eiffel Grey Tumbled Limestone was laid from the kitchen through in to the dining room beyond.