What happens when two friends from the music industry try their hand at interior design?
Photography courtesy of British Standard.
Toni Halliday, lead vocalist and lyricist for alternative rock group Curve, initially hired former music friend turned interior designer Rachel Aspland of RZ Living to help with refurbishing her home in the London neighborhood of Queens Park.
The kitchen consists of one long space with an island for cooking and gathering in the middle. The doors are a custom design and were manufactured by Mosterd Sierhekwerk, who are based in the Netherlands.
Fifty bulbs dangle from the exposed ceiling joists above and add softness to the polished concrete floor.
The designers used British Standard Cupboards to run the entire length of one wall in the kitchen.
India Yellow and Pointing by Farrow & Ball were used to create the two-tone paint scheme.
Aspland integrated a freestanding open Fruit and Vegetable Pantry with Pullout Racks into the British Standard cabinets by removing the front of the existing unit so that it could fit under the worktops of the kitchen.
The vintage graphics on the rustic racks bring tactility and visual interest into the kitchen.
A modern Commercial-Style Kitchen Faucet contrasts with classic brass bin cabinet pulls.
The cabinet countertops are Reclaimed Iroko Hardwood Laboratory Tops salvaged from schools and supplied by Retrouvius.
The horizontal effect created by the two-tone paint scheme breaks up the scale of the wall and provides a framed background for artwork and objects.
“At nighttime when all of these 50 lights are dimmed, the room becomes a very special, magical place,” Aspland says.
Above L and R: The reclaimed laboratory tops come with a texture of scratch marks and a history of graffiti.
A Vintage Coat Rack/Bench creates a practical mudroom-like space just outside the kitchen. For more kitchens with British Standard Cupboards, see.