Jamie and Ed have created the most amazing kitchen, meeting every detail of an extremely demanding brief. The outcome is dramatic, contemporary and stylish — incredibly technically complex yet it presents with amazing simplicity and sensible design. They’ve achieved the near-impossible: a luxurious, fully-equipped kitchen within the compact confines of a 16th-century property that includes two ovens, coffee machine, steam oven, full-height fridge and freezer, induction and wok gas hobs, boiling tap, wine fridge - even a robot vacuum cupboard.
The ergonomic design is brilliant. I can stand at the dishwasher and without moving my feet, unload everything in one arm’s stretch: glasses, crockery, cutlery, mugs, utensil drawers close at hand. Food prep is skilfully grouped around ingredients, spices or specialist implements, minimising time and effort. Pull-down content draws in wall cupboards to a wine fridge facing where we eat, not where we prepare…
I’ve been renovating properties most of my life, and this is without doubt the easiest and best equipped kitchen I’ve ever worked in. Ed and his team worked tirelessly on the immense technical complexity — solving the instant hot water challenge to a very confined gas wok ring, built-in kettle tap or coffee maker - I can activate remotely for my morning brew! Steam oven to microwave everything close at hand. That it comes with the style and design elements I wanted was the cherry on the cake. Thank you both - and team!!