Our furniture designers, Richard Mason and Emily Chew considered our client’s needs and embraced the large, open-plan areas that their architect had created and designed the kitchen, utility, cloakrooms, bootroom and ensuites.

With their love of cooking, we designed a well-proportioned, extensive large kitchen area in phase one with multiple cooking, snacking, and seating areas and even an office working area within the large kitchen island. We ensured the space made the most of the beautiful garden and panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.  The L-shaped kitchen included plenty of seating at the kitchen island, a living/ dining area with a large 10-seater dining table and a sofa. To take the pressure off the main cooking area, the island included a wine store, cooler, and prep sink, making the kitchen a practical and sociable space as the clients often had guests staying at their home.

The kitchen island has an L-shaped, solid oak breakfast bar with handmade oak barstools from our SD Collection (ref SD15 BB). The rest of the island worktop is in Silstone in a gorgeous shade called Daria. The island also has a built-in wine cooler by Subzero.

Our client wanted to use the island as an area to catch up on work. We added suspension files and shelving/ electrical hook-up for their printer built within the cupboards and included a bookshelf in the kneehole area under the bar stool space. The perfect space for a morning coffee and work catch-up.

The bootroom doubles as a dog room and includes cabinetry and bench seating handmade in our Skipton workshop.

With multiple ensuites and guest bathrooms, the challenge was to provide an interesting focus in each room, creating some continuity whilst utilising the spaces, some of which were angled into the roof eaves.

We designed and handcrafted the vanity cabinetry and mirror for the guest shower ensuite. It was finished in Brassica from Farrow and Ball with sycamore wood interiors.

The Volakas marble worktop is ideal for smaller spaces such as bathrooms, optimising light with a sophisticated feel. The twin surface mounted bowls are from Villeroy and Boch, taps and accessories from the Samuel Heath Landmark Collection and handles from Armac Martin. The walls are finished in Rubine Ashes from Little Greene Paint Company.⁠

Bathroom vanity and mirror, designed and handmade. Finished in Stiffkey Blue from Farrow and Ball with sycamore wood interiors and a Silestone top by Cosentino in Royal Reef. Surface mounted bowl from Villeroy and Boch, taps and accessories from the Samuel Heath Landmark collection and handles from Ged Kennett CM Ltd⁠.⁠

For the owners’ personal use, this beautiful green cloakroom includes a single bowl vanity with mirror, shelf, and pot shelf below, we added a WC cupboard to hide the cistern and add to the proportions of the space. We added panelling to make the well-used room more hardwearing but also to add an attractive feature.

Every room we design contains a secret drawer and this project was no different. In fact, the rooms were so numerous that most of our cabinetmakers had a room each and looked after the furniture for their assigned room from start to finish, including the design and creation of the secret drawer for the room. Our cabinetmakers enjoy the challenge of coming up with ever more inventive and hard to find secret drawers. Finely crafted and cleverly concealed in all our pieces of fitted furniture, the secret drawer perfectly replicates the quality of craftsmanship and attention to detail that goes into all our furniture. Using spring release, push catch or a secret recess and where they are placed is entirely the choice and ingenuity of our cabinetmakers.⁠ We never tell clients the location of their secret drawer, as most people enjoy the challenge of finding it for themselves! To date, three years and counting is the longest undiscovered secret drawer….⁠The secret drawer tally for this project was 11.