Before and after
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Hot type: Town house
Project type: Kitchen
STYLE: Cottage, versatile, vintage
Level of ability: DIY, professional
Rental friendly: NO
It took nine months to reinterpret the kitchen of the 1950s in Tess Atkinsons London Townhouse – and fell almost exactly with her daughter with her pregnancy. The entire renovation was about creating a room for their growing family.
“It was not designed for life in the family before we were in. The house had been empty for years and was previously a tenant,” says Tess. “We needed more storage space and more space. And maybe a little more glamorous! The whole room was divided into a hallway, a dining room and a kitchen, and we turned it into a room.”
Tess not only wanted the kitchen to be more functional, but she also wanted this Feel good in the room. Since the area in which the kitchen is now located was originally a bathroom, the room doesn't get much natural light. Every choice she met was hoping that it would be an “amazing holiday home”.
The first step of the renovation was to remove two walls to open the room. Next, the floors had to be paved and replaced. Tess chose these breathtaking terracotta tiles to give the room “an almost Mediterranean feeling”, and because this took place during the Covid 19 pandemic, they and their partner put the soil themselves. “It is not perfect, but it is so special for us, and tiles is a much more manageable DIY than you would imagine,” she says.
Next, the cupboards were installed – Tess jokes that she had with two styles because “mainly she simply couldn't choose one”. But it is the perfect look with a more modern (the units of Devol Haberdasher) and the other nodded into the Georgian history of the house (the Shaker designs painted in Farrow & Ball's Breakfast Room Green).
She also decided to mix and adapt other aspects of the kitchen. On ebay she found nine marble slabs and asked a commercial to clean, polish and put them together. For the submissive units, Tess chose warm, copper worktops that were brand new and almost immediately began to patina. “Now it's really something special,” she says. “Every time you spill something, it is almost exciting when a new spot is forms.” Who would have thought?
The warmth that emanates from the complementary cupboards is the detail that Tess loves the most over their new space. “I think it's great that our kitchen now works for all levels of our lives – from friends to great family meals for Christmas … to meals with our little daughter,” she says. This renovation is a dreamy example to transform a room with a personalized, rustic mood.
This post originally appeared at Kitchn. See it there: Before and after: This bright, airy cuisine was once a “dark” bathroom of the 50s (it cannot be recognized again!)
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