Churchwood Design - Bespoke Kitchen 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.
American Black Walnut and 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.
Modern Classic Painted Shaker Kitchen
This large, painted farmhouse kitchen is made from painted hardwood and hand-painted in Little Greene ‘Slaked Lime’.
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.
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 a Pippy 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!
Shaker Painted & 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.
Derbyshire 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.
Townhouse Painted Kitchen With Feature Oak Wall Cabinet
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 beaded doors gives a period look perfect for this Edwardian 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.
Ultra Compact Painted Shaker Kitchen in a Holiday Let
This holiday let, originally an old out-building, presented quite a small space to deal with. However, the result just goes to show that even the smallest of kitchens can be designed to create the ‘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 the tall units to the left and the run of base units, the kitchen delivers not only plenty of storage, but a practical work space 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 contrasts with the white quartz tops and brass accessories to give this small kitchen added impact.
Contemporary In-Frame & 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 Shepherd’s 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 and Classical - Perfect For This Narrow Kitchen
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.
Traditional Simplicity in Shades of Blue & White
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 home in a Derbyshire village.
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. The tall cabinetry conceals a fridge freezer and a central larder with yet more cupboard storage above, accessed with the a vintage step 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 at Churchwood Design we can make and supply such pieces of free standing furniture?
A Total Pippy Oak 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 great for us because not only were we starting with a blank canvas, but having worked for the client on several previous projects we had a very good idea of what they wanted.
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 worktops 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 makes 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!
Rustic Oak Style in The Peak District
Sometimes it makes a refreshing change to move away from the standard door designs with all their uniformity - and that was certainly the case with this Peak District terraced cottage which rather lends itself to a more visually relaxed approach.
After a huge flood, the homeowners thought it the ideal opportunity to create a kitchen more befitting the age and style of their cottage. They wanted true rustic style cabinetry BUT didn’t want straight runs of timber. As you can imagine, creating each door was rather like piecing together a jigsaw, with the carefully shaped pieces of timber joined together and then braced from behind to ensure the doors retain their shape.
The patina, created by the knots and burls of the character oak, together with its rich and varied tones, creates a wonderful warm and homely atmosphere. The locally sourced ‘Mandale Limestone’ worktops add yet another visual element with its fossilised finish created over thousands of years!
Bespoke cabinetry size and shape flexibility enabled us to make best use of the space under the stairs running into the kitchen, with an integrated fridge-freezer, pantry cupboard and additional drawer storage…..you can never have enough storage! Note also, the wonderful ‘roll out’ cupboard shelves.
Quaint and rustic the kitchen furniture might be - however all modern appliances are still integrated along with a useful island to strike the perfect balance between function and form.
Bespoke Cabinetry For A Derbyshire Arts & Crafts Country House
Given Chuchwood Design’s reputation for craftsmanship and our bespoke manufacturing flexibility, we are - from time to time - asked by architects and interior designers to help interpret their furniture ideas and to make them a reality, just as with this particular project.
This Derbyshire Arts and Crafts country house was fully refurbished by local building contractors, ‘HA Briddon Ltd,’ under the direction of revered architects and interior designers, Ben Pentreath Ltd. The kitchen furniture was constructed and finished to Ben Pentreath Ltd’s design and specification.
We are very proud to have worked on such a wonderful project, producing the made to measure cabinetry not only for the kitchen, but the pantry, laundry room, boot room and bathroom. Some of this furniture can be seen in the ‘Other Rooms’ section of the website.