Open-plan kitchens — a single space in which you can cook, eat, relax and socialize — are enduringly popular. They allow family and friends to be together, with no single person isolated in the kitchen, and make good use of the available footprint, reducing the need for circulation space between rooms.
However, the kitchen’s highly visible position within what often becomes the hub of the home means they do require careful planning and there are multiple factors to consider: zoning areas, making the space social, flow and aesthetics. We asked three home professionals to share their design advice.
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The window was installed two months before the cabinetry went in. That made it challenging to set the handmade cast-iron, wall-mounted sink, one of the key elements of the vision for an old English working kitchen.
“It is not flat; it is not plumb. There are no 90-degree angles. It’s very imperfect, which is part of the beauty,” says Laura Marshall, Refined Renovations’ director of marketing.
To get the sink centered and with an even reveal, and at the same time have its wall-mounted faucet perfectly line up with the plumbing, there was no room for error. Luckily, with a lot of coordination between the design and production teams, the installation went flawlessly, Marshall says.
Faucet: Country Kitchen bridge in satin nickel, Rohl