Kitchen of the Week: A Waste-Acutely aware Transform for a Ceramic Tile Designer

Right here’s a kitchen that thoughtfully references the interval and place the house was constructed (someday within the nineteenth century, in London), but feels totally fashionable. It belongs to ceramic tile designer Sophie Caulfeild and her husband, James, a fund supervisor. The 2 employed architect Thom Brisco, of Brisco Loran, final yr to brighten, replace, and customise it for his or her busy life with two younger daughters. “We needed to have extra seating within the lightest a part of the home (the extension), to enhance the look of the extension from the surface, and to enhance the connection between the outside and indoors. It’s a north-facing room and it was very gray so we needed it to really feel so much hotter,” Sophie reviews.

In designing the brand new kitchen, Thom took his cues from what was already there: “A lot of the design emerged from our statement of the home’s historic window and door framework. We appeared to emulate the lacy qualities of its joinery with a timber framework of our personal.” However as a substitute of gutting every little thing and changing all of it, Thom and his purchasers have been decided to attenuate waste and  “to work with what we had,” he says. “Ours is a mission of many small tweaks and measures producing a brand new comfy complete, with out resort to wholesale substitute.”

Some examples of their aware efforts to salvage and reuse: “Brickwork that was eliminated to reshape a door would grow to be the brand new sill of an incoming window. The defective porcelain flooring that we took up was moved to the backyard, the place it grew to become the bottom materials for the brand new backyard patio,” he shares. “As well as, a number of of the home equipment within the former kitchen have been retained and reinstalled within the new fit-out, while the outdated cupboards grew to become a useful resource for the builder’s different initiatives throughout London. While of restricted influence, these small strikes are examples of our mandatory shift towards a round materials economic system.”

Beneath, the outcomes of their thought-about, waste-conscious renovation.

Pictures by Agnese Sanvito, courtesy of Brisco Loran.