Yorkshire Blue

01 Nov 17

Building an extension to this late Victorian North Yorkshire home was the only way to gain room for a big, new family kitchen.

Recommended to the house’s owners by a friend, Martin Moore designer Matthew Sedgwick was briefed before the building works began. This allowed him not only to oversee the correct placement of all the utilities, but also to feedback his ideas for the space into the building process. 

One of his priorities was to design an architectural feature to bring interest to the longest wall and create a visual ‘centrepiece’ for the kitchen. A deep recess was built to hold the cooking zone, with a break-fronted chimney breast and timber mantel lending a classic look. An impressive range cooker holds pride of place, with dedicated storage cupboards and workspace on either side. The recess is lined with polished Carrara marble and features a useful cookshelf, perfect for keeping cooking essentials such as salt and oils to hand.

‘A blue kitchen’ was in the brief right from the outset, but the colours went through many potential shades and combinations before settling on Martin Moore’s ‘Summer Sky’ for the fitted cabinetry, ‘Cove Blue’ for the island and interior of the large glazed dresser and ‘Blue Grey’ on the drinks servery dresser and outside of the glazed dresser.  Hand-painted, these subtly related colours highlight the unfussy good looks of Martin Moore’s ‘New Classic’ cabinetry.

Every Martin Moore kitchen is designed and handmade to order in their Yorkshire workshops, with no standard components. Built round the clients’ busy lifestyle, this kitchen has many ‘dedicated’ areas including the large glazed dresser for glass, cutlery and crockery storage and the appliance cupboard, keeping the kitchen beautifully organised. 

Throughout the rest of the kitchen, the worksurfaces are in ‘Bianco Massa’ polished quartz composite. The floor, Cartmel Honed Limestone from Martin Moore Stone, is in the same rich but neutral palette.