Furniture

Beyond the kitchen

Some projects don't stop at the kitchen.

Most piqu projects start in the kitchen. Some end there — and some carry on naturally into the rooms around it: a wardrobe wall in the principal bedroom, a media unit running the length of the living space, hallway storage that takes real daily use and still looks considered.

When that happens, the same studio plans the next room. Proportions and finishes are coordinated so the furniture sits inside the architecture rather than on top of it, and the project keeps a single point of accountability throughout. It is the same care as the kitchen, carried into the spaces where it earns its place. piqu is a kitchen studio first; furniture is how a good kitchen project sometimes continues.

Wardrobes first

The clearest place the kitchen approach pays off.

Wardrobes are the most natural next step. A bedroom wall planned with the same care as a kitchen cabinetry run — proportion, hardware, internal storage, finish, lighting inside the doors — gives a room the same calm a well-planned kitchen does. The same goes for dressing areas, hallway storage and the harder-working boot-room and utility pieces that have to take real daily use.

The detail conversations are familiar: how the doors open, how the drawers behave when fully loaded, where the lighting sits, how the inside is divided up. The maker changes; the planning approach does not.

Sudbrock

A selected German furniture maker, used where it suits the project.

Sudbrock is a German furniture maker piqu specifies for wardrobes, living and media furniture, hallway storage, home-office and bedroom pieces. The carcasses, runners and finishes are made to a level the studio is comfortable putting alongside its kitchen work, and the range covers both quiet finishes and more graphic configurations.

It is specified where it suits the project; where another approach suits a room better, the studio specifies that instead. Sudbrock supports the design — it does not drive it. Sudbrock at piqu →

How furniture fits with a kitchen project

Sometimes inside the kitchen project, sometimes later.

Some clients begin with a kitchen and decide later that a wardrobe wall or hallway run would benefit from the same approach. Some projects start with a kitchen and a connected media unit specified together from the first conversation. Either route works, and either way the studio plans the finishes, hardware and structural detail so the rooms keep talking to each other.

The Clapham Quartzite & Timber Kitchen is a useful example. The same soft white and oak language carries from the kitchen into a connected lounge media unit, so the two rooms read as one piece of design. Oxted HUF HAUS Kitchen & Laundry is another: the main kitchen, a compact basement kitchen and a refined laundry are planned together, each shaped to the HUF HAUS architecture but reading as a single project.

Relevant projects

Where furniture has sat alongside a piqu kitchen.

Clapham Quartzite & Timber Kitchen — the connected lounge media unit continues the soft white Leicht and oak language of the kitchen, planned alongside it from the first design session.

Oxted HUF HAUS Kitchen & Laundry — main kitchen, compact basement kitchen and a refined laundry, all planned together around the HUF HAUS architecture.

Keston Dark Timber & Gaggenau Kitchen — a coordinated media element sits alongside the dark Leicht Bahia kitchen in the same family-first plan.