Kitchen

Mood board for the kitchen

Limited by its size, I have to give up a lot of great ideas, include an island. I was also debating with husband about the concept of open kitchen vs closed kitchen. Open kitchen, as the one we had before was certainly a lot more chic and trendy, but given the children factor, it would be much safer to have a door. To make a compromise, we will have an internal glass window instead, which was inspired by the Mandarin Oriental Cafe Causette. 

Having an island was also out of the question. In exchange, we will have a bar table against the glass window and one or two stools behind it.  

For the other details of the kitchen, I would play it safe by using materials I was familiar with.  I will have glossy white cabinets and grey technistone countertop. The back panel, on the other hand, was always the one element I can't quite make up my mind on. At last I finally I gave into the white marble which I was thinking of using as countertop but discouraged by Edmond who said it stains quite easily (although he also thought that the technistone stain easily but I have used it for years without any problems). Also will have a concrete floor since it would be enclosed from the rest of the flat. 

My old kitchen below. 

These are the kitchens and materials that I like; and the reason why I don't use them. 

This is a stunning and glamourous kitchen. I am not sure I can source the brass exhaustion hood in HK and would have worked better with open kitchens. 

I like this cabinet very much and my guess is that they are laminate. I have only saw this a few days ago, perhaps I will use it in my next project. 

I adore this white marble + wood combination. Unfortunately Ed was totally against using white marble as countertop. His view was that they stained and turned yellow quite easily.

I highly recommend using a separate kitchen specialist for your kitchen renovation even if your contractor swear that he can do it just as well. The kitchen require a lot of special care if you want them to last and these specialist usually don't charge you more. We use Play Limited in Gough Street. So far so good. They are on the middle range in terms of pricing and rather creative. They also sell a material called Slate-Lite, which is a paper thin natural stone surface. You can use it for cabinet, walls, even furniture. We will apply that for our balcony wall.