Three fresh kitchen schemes created by House & Garden editors
Every month House & Garden's decoration editors curate a fictional, shoppable home, using a painstakingly researched section of beautiful objects old and new. Welcome to The Scheme. This month deputy decoration editor Ruth Sleightholme cooks up three fresh looks for the kitchen.
Andrew Montgomery1/5Vintage Colour
Furniture
• Hardwood fitted scullery with teak worktop, in ‘Boiled Egg’ eggshell paint, from £25,000, from Plain English.
• Reclaimed ceramic sink, £780 for similar; brass taps, £260 for similar; both from Lassco.Accessories
• Enamelled steel pendant light, £80 for similar, from Tinsmiths.
• On top shelf: French stoneware bowls, from £30 each, from Decorative Antiques. ‘Flare’ fine bone china jug, by Pinch, £150, from 1882.
• Middle shelf: Enamel ‘Large Jug’ (orange), £24; red clay ‘Brown Betty’ teapots, from £16.50 each; all from Labour & Wait.
• Bottom shelf: ‘Beryl’ Forties earthenware cup and saucer, £7.50; coffee pot, £19.50; and jug, £9.50; all by Woods, from The Vintage Kitchen. Faceted glass tumblers, £2.50 each, from Labour & Wait. Glass bottles with lids, £2.19 each, from Lakeland.
• Countertop: Iroko wood chopping board, £36, from David Mellor. Steel and beech bread knife, £32; wood and bristle ‘Pot Brush’, £12.50; ‘Stripe Hazard’ linen tea towel, £15; enamel ‘Large Lidded Mug’ (burgundy), £10; enamel ‘Japanese Teapot’ (blue), £58; all from Labour & Wait. ‘Beryl’ cup and saucer, as before.
Andrew Montgomery2/5Vintage Colour
Walls
• ‘Mash’ eggshell paint (on walls); ‘Kipper’ full gloss paint (on woodwork); both available on Plain English products only.
Furniture
• Oiled oak-topped hardwood ‘Bath Dresser Island’, in ‘Sauce’ full gloss paint, £39,500; hardwood ‘Dutch Larder’, £19,500; both from Plain English.
Accessories
• Enamelled steel pendant light, £80 for similar, from Tinsmiths.
• Antique stoneware preserve jars, from £6.50 each, from Black Bough.
• ‘Touch’ stained-maple tray, by Ilse Crawford for Zanat, €260, from Makers & Brothers.
• ‘Flare’ fine bone china pitcher, £140; jug, £150; both by Pinch, from 1882.
• Velvet and linen cushion (in background), £72, from Kirsten Hecktermann.
Andrew Montgomery3/5Modern Country
Walls
• ‘Calamine’ paint, £43.50 for 2.5 litres matt emulsion, from Farrow & Ball.
• Ceramic ‘London Tiles’ (emerald green), £25 a tile, from DeVol.
• Nineteenth-century oil portrait, £800 for a set of two, from The Lacquer Chest.Furniture
• Hardwood, black marble and brass ‘Classic English Kitchen’ (clerkenwell blue), from £25,000; ‘Real Shaker Kitchen’ hardwood and Cararra marble work table with bespoke storage and copper end table (clerkenwell blue), from £10,500; both from DeVol.
• Ceramic ‘800 Single Fluted Sink’, £965, by Shaws of Darwen. ‘Ionian’ brass taps, £460, from Perrin & Rowe.
• Beech and elm ‘Windsor Elbow Chair’, £6,500 for a pair, from Rose Uniacke.Accessories
• Window screen in ‘Rhyme’ (pearl), by Harlequin, polyester, £38 a metre, from Style Library; painted in a bespoke folk design, from £100 for similar, by Annie Millar.
• ‘Crackle’ ceramic and brass pendant lights, £150 each, from DeVol.
• Gilded brass and glass chandelier, £475 for similar, from O’Keeffe Antiques.
• Antique glass jar, £10; antique brass kitchen utensils, from £14.50 each; vintage Denby soup bowls, £6.50 each; brass preserving pan (on work table), £25; all from The Vintage Kitchen Store.
• Olive wood chopping board, £40, from Saudade.
• English linen tablecloth with broderie anglaise border, £110, from Appley Hoare.
• Provençal stoneware water jug, £110; small glazed confit pot, £90; both from Trésors Trouvés.
• Large ceramic Italian confit pot, £220, from M Charpentier Antiques.
• ‘Buttercup Meadow’ scented candle in ceramic jar, £30, from Luna & Curious.
• In cupboard: earthenware cabbage plates, by Bordallo Pinheiro, from £31, from Amara.
• Amber glass apothecary jars, from £9 for similar, from Balineum.
• Enamel tumblers (pigeon grey), £6 each, from Falcon Enamelware.
• French majolica plates, from £50 each, from David Griffith Antiques
Andrew Montgomery4/5Industrial Warmth
Walls
• ‘Pitch Black’ paint, £43.50 for 2.5 litres emulsion, from Farrow & Ball.
Furniture
• ‘K14’ wood, metal, granite and steel kitchen, with ‘Hide Tall’ lacquered metal units, both by Norbert Wangen, from £38,400 for a kitchen, from Boffi.
• Oak ‘Oval Table’, £3,960, from Rose Uniacke.
• ‘Caribou’ leather and metal chairs (quince, chilli), £1,854 each, from Ochre.
• ‘Whippet’ oak, beech and velvet stool, £3,240, from Howe.
• Steel stools, £150 each, from Elemental.Accessories
• ‘Boccia’ glass pendant lights, by Piero Lissoni, £828 each, from Boffi.
• ‘Vase Family 4th Generation’ leather sculptures, £2,100 each, from Simon Hasan.
• Terracotta ‘Medium Shallow Bowl’, £240; beakers, £27 each; jug (on small shelves), £120, all by Silvia K Ceramics; ‘Large Sculptural Stoneware Jug’, by Adam Ross, £420; all from The New Craftsmen.
• Terracotta tableware, from £6.50; brush, £12; both from Saudade.
• On small shelves: ‘Oftast’ glass plates, 50p each, from Ikea.
• Stoneware ‘Chocolate Mugs’, by Nicola Tassie, £55 each, from Maud & Mabel
Andrew Montgomery5/5Industrial Warmth
Walls
• ‘Pitch Black’ paint, £43.50 for 2.5 litres emulsion, from Farrow & Ball.
Floor
• ‘Mazandran’ wool kilim, £6,146, from Sinclair Till.
Furniture
• ‘Boffi Code’ greystone marble, abonos oak, glass and steel kitchen, with abonos oak storage units, by Pierro Lissoni, from £96,000 for a kitchen, from Boffi.
• ‘Oscura’ scorched ash lounge chair, by Julian Martinez, £4,400; ‘Cartwright’ ash and beech lounge chair, by James Bowyer, £5,300; both from Mint.
• ‘Stockholm’ rattan and ash coffee tables, £85 each, from Ikea.
• Hardwood and feather ‘Drawing Room Sofa’, £8,400; covered in ‘Moss’, cotton velvet, £75 a metre; both from Rose Uniacke.
• ‘Sen’ metal and MDF side table, by Kensaku Oshiro, £909.60, from De Padova.Accessories
• Cotton cushion covers, ‘Martha’, £105; and ‘Zipolite’, £120; both by Colorindio, from Maison Numen.
• Silk and hemp ‘Indigo Dyed Tassel Cushion’, by Katherine May, £155, from The New Craftsmen.
• ‘Emerald’ linen and wool cushion, by Chloe Scott, £180, from Mint.
• Metal canister, £68, from Elemental.
• Earthenware vase, by Prinknash Pottery, from £16, from The Pottery Studio.
• Terracotta jug, beakers, glass and ceramic plates, and stoneware ‘Chocolate Mug’, all as before.
