Kitchen of the Week: Burgundy Meets Blush within the English Countryside

In 2012, beloved English kitchen model deVOL reworked a Sixteenth-century water mill into their headquarters. The historic, five-story constructing, which is situated on the banks of the River Soar in rural Leicestershire, homes each company workplaces and elaborate showrooms. Whereas updates have been made to accommodate the corporate, authentic components like heavy beams, mullioned home windows, creaky floorboards, and wobbly partitions stay.

“There are lots of evidences of its historical past as a mill, like wheels and pulleys and hatches for reducing grain,” says deVOL artistic director Helen Parker. “Every room is completely different, permitting us to create uncommon and galvanizing shows that give a way of dwelling quite than a showroom.”

That cozy residential vibe is very evident within the Heirloom Assortment Kitchen, the most recent showroom at Cotes Mill. With a burgundy and blush coloration scheme and old-world particulars like an outsized plate rack and linen cabinet curtains, the prepare dinner area oozes countryside attraction. The one factor lacking is a candy grandmother chopping greens on the European oak and Carrara marble dairy desk. Let’s take a better look.

Images courtesy of deVOL Kitchens.