Hever Colour & Stainless Steel Kitchen

A long peninsula in stainless steel, a single tall wall of Leicht cabinetry, and a door to the utility that disappears into the elevation. The room had outgrown itself; we gave it back its centre of gravity.

The brief

A family kitchen with more room for the family in it.

The kitchen was already the social heart of the house, but the layout was working against it. A small island sat marooned in the middle of the floor — too far from the cooking, too small for the family to gather around. Opposite, a standard internal doorway interrupted the long wall, which meant the cabinetry was always going to read as a series of fragments rather than a single elevation.

They wanted a calmer room with a clearer edge to gather around.

The design response

A peninsula, a cabinetry wall, and a door that disappears.

The small island was replaced with a long peninsula running across the centre of the room. The stainless steel worktop is one continuous piece; the undermount sink and the Bora cooktop are integrated into it rather than dropped on top. The peninsula gives the family a clear edge to gather around, and the cook a working surface that doesn't tuck them away from the room.

Opposite, the tall Leicht run reads as a single elevation. Two intentional breaks: an open display niche for the everyday glassware, and a deeper drinks niche that sits as a quiet pocket of contrast against the dark Fenix Boreal Green fronts.

The AEG combi steam oven, warming drawer, coffee machine and wine cabinet sit inside the same plane, so the appliances stop reading as a stack and start reading as part of the wall.

A door that disappears

The concealed passage door to the utility.

The utility behind the cabinetry wall still needed daily access, but a hinged door would have broken the elevation in the same way the original doorway did. We used a Leicht concealed passage door instead. The door panel is finished to match the surrounding cabinetry, hung on hidden hardware with a continuous reveal at the top, sides and bottom, and aligned tightly enough to read as part of the run when closed. The family can walk through to the utility without anyone in the kitchen seeing a door at all.