White Kitchen with White Splashback, Matchstick Tiled Splashback and All Types of Island Ideas and Designs

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

This is an example of a small modern galley kitchen/diner in Paris with a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, wood worktops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood flooring, an island, brown floors and beige worktops.

Solène Ballesta
Small scandi u-shaped kitchen/diner in Paris with a submerged sink, beaded cabinets, white cabinets, laminate countertops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood flooring, a breakfast bar, beige floors and grey worktops.

Neche Page’s Beauty Point Project has won the Interiors category of the BDAA Sydney Regional Chapter Design Awards 2020. Page is the director of Living Lot, an award-winning building design studio that provides ideas, concepts and planning approval services to homeowners in Mosman and surrounding areas. Judges praised the design’s nice original fireplace and tasteful opening; deeming the project a quality outdoor remodel that met the challenge of turning an older house into a contemporary family home. They praised Page’s excellent documentation, and the way that her design was addressed by the redistribution of spaces to suit a more modern lifestyle--and the featured use of INEX board in the kitchen.

Inspiration for a large galley enclosed kitchen in Milan with a built-in sink, grey cabinets, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, stainless steel appliances, cement flooring, an island, multi-coloured floors and white worktops.

Franke White Undermount sink, with mixer tap and Billi tap.
Inspiration for a medium sized modern l-shaped open plan kitchen in Sydney with a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, granite worktops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, black appliances, light hardwood flooring, an island, beige floors, grey worktops and exposed beams.

For this new family home in the rural area of Murrumbateman NSW, the interior design aesthetic was an earthy palette, incorporating soft patterns, stone cladding and warmth through timber finishes. For these empty nesters, simple and classic was key to be able to incorporate their collection of pre-loved furniture pieces and create a home for their children and grandchildren to enjoy. Built by REP Building. Photography by Hcreations.

Small modern galley kitchen/diner in Madrid with an integrated sink, recessed-panel cabinets, black appliances, an island, grey floors, white cabinets, composite countertops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, ceramic flooring and white worktops.

Progettazione in pianta, realizzazione 3D, assistenza all'acquisto e supervisione in fase di montaggio e posa piastrelle. Una cucina per un piccolo spazio ma completa di tutto. Come richiesto dal cliente la cucina è nera. Ho utilizzato un rivestimento a parete e dei pensili bianchi per alleggerire l'impatto e favorire la luminosità. La scelta del lavabo nero, del piano cottura a induzione e di un frigo da banco incassato nei mobili base mi hanno permesso di ottenere un look minimal.

For this new family home in the rural area of Murrumbateman NSW, the interior design aesthetic was an earthy palette, incorporating soft patterns, stone cladding and warmth through timber finishes. For these empty nesters, simple and classic was key to be able to incorporate their collection of pre-loved furniture pieces and create a home for their children and grandchildren to enjoy. Built by REP Building. Photography by Hcreations.

This is an example of a large contemporary u-shaped kitchen in Melbourne with green cabinets, composite countertops, white splashback, stainless steel appliances, limestone flooring, white worktops, a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, matchstick tiled splashback and a breakfast bar.

Inax Yohen Border tile splashback. Floating oak shelves.
Inspiration for a medium sized modern l-shaped open plan kitchen in Sydney with a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, granite worktops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, black appliances, light hardwood flooring, an island, beige floors, grey worktops and exposed beams.

Open plan kitchen with kitchen island and dining area. Sliding doors for an optional alfresco living feel. Style in contemporary muted colours and clean lines.

Home Exposure
Design ideas for a large contemporary single-wall open plan kitchen in London with a belfast sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, quartz worktops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, black appliances, dark hardwood flooring, an island, brown floors and white worktops.

ALL THE DETAILS - Custom designed & manufactured cabinetry with an in-house profile, finished in mint green & white matte polyurethane colour - Custom curved vertical slate panelling - Concealed laundry - Natural 'Pulia' Marble benchtop with a 20mm 'aris' edge - Tile Cloud 'Kit Kat' tiled splashback - Lo & Co Brass hardware - Zetr 'brass & white' power points recessed into cabinetry - Blum electric 'lift-up' doors - All Blum hardware Sheree Bounassif, Kitchens by Emanuel

Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary open plan kitchen in Melbourne with a submerged sink, shaker cabinets, engineered stone countertops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, black appliances, light hardwood flooring and an island.

This is an example of a medium sized contemporary single-wall kitchen in Paris with white cabinets, wood worktops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, light hardwood flooring, an island, beige floors and beige worktops.

Investissement locatif clé en main - cuisine ouverte avec bar et carreaux de ciment au sol
This is an example of a small scandi l-shaped kitchen/diner in Paris with white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, ceramic flooring and an island.

Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary single-wall open plan kitchen in Paris with a single-bowl sink, beaded cabinets, white cabinets, stainless steel worktops, white splashback, matchstick tiled splashback, stainless steel appliances, cement flooring, an island and multi-coloured floors.