We designed the kitchen drawers on Pinterest. Jonathan and I bounced many ideas around but the ones that I loved the most had flat fronts with finger joints visible at the sides.
Jonathan took the idea and ran with it, deciding where the drawers belonged and choosing to place wide drawers under the beech worktop, with spaces to pull them instead of handles, and soft-close mechanism to reduce the risk of child-inflicted damage.
Jonathan added bespoke walnut inserts, to neaten the contents and ensure I didn’t overload the drawers. Again, there were made from offcuts.
Meanwhile the kitchen cupboards were crafted from walnut too, but with a unique ribbed design. The inspiration for this came from the laundry cupboard, which has two large vented doors. These are made from vertical strips of walnut, backed with fabric to ventilate without you seeing the cupboard’s contents.
Jon continued the ribbed design for all the cabinet doors, but with wood backs on the rest. They look great and I love the handle-less design: I know just the right rib to pull to open each cupboard. For Jonathan though, they presented an engineering challenge. The ribs made the doors deep and heavy, so it took a lot of thought and experimentation to design doors and hinges that would open and close reliably.
