The Nordic elegance kitchen
In our latest project, we have designed a luxurious kitchen with a star restaurant vibe. The large kitchen island invites to socialize and the built-in sofa makes this the home's most used room.
This exciting kitchen is located in a beautiful 1920s house next to the Humlegården park on Östermalm. The design is minimalist elegant, but the details add attitude and inspire social togetherness.
The cushions in the site-built kitchen sofa have been upholstered in black leather and on one side a small cafe table has been mounted, the design of which has taken inspiration from outdoor cafes and bars. Here you can sit and work or have your breakfast.
To create an airy feeling, oak doors were chosen that were stained in the same light brown tone as the original parquet, this creates a light and floating impression. Top cabinets and wall-mounted fan were removed to create a calm flow of light and air.
When the owners visited the apartment for the first time, it was the inviting feeling in the large kitchen and its wide balcony doors that made them fall. Here you could gather family and friends and here you would feel at home. However, the design of the kitchen itself left a lot to be desired.
The idea with the dark marble was also to create a contrast to the apartment's soft 20s details and to match the home's other rooms, for example, the dining room has a large round table in the same stone.
To add space, the bench row ends before it reaches the end of the wall. In addition to making the room more spacious, and the beautiful curtains can fall freely, it also gives the kitchen the restaurant kitchen vibe that was desired.
The goal was to create a kitchen with a lot of storage, space and preferably with an air of restaurant kitchen and pulse. In addition, the family needed a room that works for two small children. The favorite table from their previous apartment with its beautiful Nero Marquina marble was the inspiration in combination with our Scandinavian Feng shui kitchen.
The color of the cabinets softens and becomes a nice contrast to the mighty black marble and the warm oak. The frames around the cabinet doors pick up the shape of the room's wall panel.
The site-built pocket door cabinet that gives the kitchen a completely different look when the doors are closed or open.
The spacious kitchen is about 40 square meters, has over three meters to the ceiling and has doors to the hall, living room and balcony. On one side we placed a row of benches with doors in oak and at the top there is a marble worktop. On the opposite side, closest to the balcony, there are tall cabinets with fridge, freezer, oven and a cabinet for storing glass.
Low cabinets were chosen at the bottom and top to create an opening in the middle for a site-built kitchen sofa. On the other side of the kitchen sofa there is a pocket cupboard with space for a coffee maker and other practical items. The tall cabinets, the pocket cabinet and the cabinets that are above and below the kitchen sofa have all been painted in beige gray and have an elegant frame that matches the mirror panel on the wall of the room.
Instead of a classic ceiling fan, a fan from Gaggenau was chosen that is hidden in the bench behind the hob.
The inside of the pocket door cabinet matches the rest of the kitchen with its light brown oak and black Nero Marquina marble.
In the middle of the room is a large kitchen island. Here you will find the hob and a long narrow sink.
- "Today's catch" we call the sink. There you can place everything from pots with fresh spices to a whole salmon, or you can fill it with ice and champagne.
At the bottom, the kitchen island is clad in oak and on one side there is space for bar stools where guests can sit and dangle with their legs while the hosts cooks by the hob on the opposite side.
All work surfaces and the back splash have been clad with an intense black Nero Marquina marble. Together with the lamps and fittings from Buster and Punch, they give the kitchen a elegant touch.
The pocket door cabinet that gives the kitchen a completely different look when the doors are closed or open.
Everything in the kitchen has a given place and is easy to organize. There are specially designed compartments for spices and knives and also the inside breathes elegance with the oak-clad cabinets.
- We really appreciate the help we received in figuring out how to organize the storage, they conclude.
Photo: Kristofer Johnsson Styling Caroline Sandström
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