Living room. Use of Mirrors to extend the space. This apartment is designed by Black and Milk Interior Design. They specialise in Modern Interiors for Modern London Homes. https://blackandmilk.co.uk

Large island with marble work tops set in an spacious open plan kitchen dining room.
Inspiration for a large contemporary kitchen in Sussex with marble worktops and limestone flooring.

Photo of a large rural l-shaped open plan kitchen in Berkshire with flat-panel cabinets, green cabinets, an island and white worktops.

A spacious kitchen designed for a beautiful, new build. The bold, matte orange cabinets and dark grey worktop contrast against the white, clean walls. Making this kitchen stand out from the rest of the room. All storage solutions have been carefully planned and most of the storage is hidden behind doors adding to the spacious feeling of this stunning kitchen.

As is always the case, we design kitchens in a way where they are as practical as possible. We worked in order to ascertain how our clients would use their space, and ensured we designed their kitchen in a way which was natural their ways of cooking and entertaining. A variety of storage solutions were used to make this possible.

Cristobal Palma
This is an example of a large modern open plan home cinema in London with white walls, concrete flooring, a projector screen and white floors.

Our clients wanted a fresh approach to make their compact kitchen work better for them. They also wanted it to integrate well with their dining space alongside, creating a better flow between the two rooms and the access from the hallway. On a small footprint, the original kitchen layout didn’t make the most of the available space. Our clients desperately wanted more storage as well as more worktop space. We designed a new kitchen space for our clients, which made use of the footprint they had, as well as improving the functionality. By changing the doorway into the room, we changed the flow through the kitchen and dining spaces and created a deep alcove on the righthand-side of the dining room chimney breast. Freeing up this alcove was a massive space gain, allowing us to increase kitchen storage. We designed a full height storage unit to match the existing cupboards on the other wide of the chimney breast. This new, super deep cupboard space is almost 80cm deep. We divided the internal space between cupboard space above and four considerable drawer pull-outs below. Each drawer holds up to 70kg of contents and pulls right out to give our clients an instant overview of their dry goods and supplies – a fantastic kitchen larder. We painted the new full height cupboard to match and gave them both new matching oak knob handles. The old kitchen had two shorter worktop runs and there was a freestanding cupboard in the space between the cooking and dining zones. We created a compact kitchen peninsula to replace the freestanding unit and united it with the sink run, creating a slim worktop run between the two. This adds to the flow of the kitchen, making the space more of a defined u-shaped kitchen. By adding this new stretch of kitchen worktop to the design, we could include even more kitchen storage. The new kitchen incorporates shallow storage between the peninsula and the sink run. We built in open shelving at a low level and a useful mug and tea cupboard at eye level. We made all the kitchen cabinets from our special eco board, which is produced from 100% recycled timber. The flat panel doors add to the sleek, unfussy style. The light colour cabinetry lends the kitchen a feeling of light and space. The kitchen worktops and upstands are made from recycled paper – created from many, many layers of recycled paper, set in resin to bond it. A really unique material, it is incredibly tactile and develops a lovely patina over time. The pale-coloured kitchen cabinetry is paired with “barely there” toughened glass elements which all help to give the kitchen area a feeling of light and space. The subtle glass splashback behind the hob reflects light into the room as well as protecting the wall surface. The window sills are all made to match and also bounce natural light into the room. The new kitchen is a lovely new functional space which flows well and is integrated with the dining space alongside.

One of Wendy's main wishes on the brief was a large pantry.
Photo of a large contemporary single-wall kitchen pantry in London with a built-in sink, flat-panel cabinets, blue cabinets, granite worktops, grey splashback, marble splashback, stainless steel appliances, ceramic flooring, an island, grey floors and grey worktops.

Inspiration for a large modern galley open plan kitchen in London with an integrated sink, flat-panel cabinets, stainless steel cabinets, glass worktops, stainless steel appliances, concrete flooring, an island and white floors.

Handpainted red in-frame shaker kitchen with granite worksurfaces and a large island with inset oak chopping board.
Large rural enclosed kitchen in Hertfordshire with a submerged sink, shaker cabinets, red cabinets, granite worktops, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances, ceramic flooring and an island.

Classic in-frame kitchen – handpainted in Farrow & Ball Purbeck Stone and Drawing Room Blue on island. 30mm Quartz work surfaces. AEG ovens, hob, Quooker Fusion tap Photography Infinity Media

Tim Doyle
Large contemporary l-shaped open plan kitchen in Other with a single-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, engineered stone countertops, medium hardwood flooring, an island, beige floors and black worktops.

This is an example of a small urban galley kitchen in Barcelona with a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, white splashback, porcelain splashback, integrated appliances, an island, grey floors and black worktops.

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This is an example of a small contemporary single-wall enclosed kitchen in Turin with a built-in sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, laminate countertops, porcelain flooring, white splashback, no island and grey floors.

Design ideas for a small modern u-shaped open plan kitchen in Adelaide with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, granite worktops, blue splashback, glass sheet splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood flooring and a breakfast bar.

Tim Doyle
Photo of a large contemporary l-shaped open plan kitchen in Other with a single-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, engineered stone countertops, medium hardwood flooring, an island, beige floors and black worktops.

The island cooking zone with ovens, induction hob and ceiling mounted extractor is designed to keep the business end of preparing a meal away from the more communal breakfast bar.

Nina Petchey, Bells and Bows Photography
This is an example of a large country kitchen/diner in Other with a double-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, blue cabinets, wood worktops, white splashback, metro tiled splashback, light hardwood flooring, no island and coloured appliances.

Shaker kitchen cabinets painted in Farrow & Ball colours, oak internals, oversized island, granite worktops and sliding ladder, skylight, bar seating.