Modern traditional thinking.

Ey up my faithful blogworms, subtle indicators in the market are giving us the impression that  'old school' kitchens are on their way back in certain quarters. A bit more traditional style and old fashioned values seem to be gathering momentum, so we're having a punt on using those ideas and bringing them into contemporary kitchen furniture.

A bit like this: 

Our display is very new, as you can see, we've not decided on handles yet ! It's not meant to be 'handleless' we're just thinking about what to use.

It's a simple 'wide stile and rail' Shaker door in two shades, Dakar & Olive for a subtle two tone look rather than use two totally different colours.

Bringing back the good old fashioned Belfast sink, always great for washing large pans in that don't fit in your dishwasher, we've found a quartz worktop that has the appearance of a traditional Carrara marble with out the drawbacks of marble being soft and porous but still keeping that certain look.

For us, though, the thing that really pulls it together is the tiling. We've chosen a really old style, seemingly random, mix. A style more in keeping with Victorian kitchens but brand new and a hand made range from Marlborough Tiles called Harlequin. We absolutely love it ! You buy a box of 28 tiles, all different, and mix them as you fit them. 

It's a look that we feel really works as the kitchen units and tops are quite plain in design allowing the tiles to do the work as the 'Wow' Feature. 

It's only been in the showroom window a few days now but we're staggered at the interest being generated by it. Who knows we may have hit a seam here, you do get one every so often that captures the imagination ..... this may just be it !

What do you think ?

From Milestone, it's available everywhere, if this really floats your boat, we'll travel anywhere to either deliver it or deliver & fit it for you, you only have to ask !

Traditionally. Jules