An open-plan kitchen with tall bronze-brown units and an island
Project

An open-plan kitchen with the utility hidden inside it

A customer we'd made a kitchen for moved house and came back to us for their second one. The new house had no utility room and a staircase cutting through the kitchen, so we hid both behind the cabinetry.

The client
Back for their second CEK kitchen
Hidden away
A utility behind the cabinetry
Worktop
Dekton Trilium
Made by
CEK, designed and fitted
Day one

An empty room.

Every CEK kitchen starts with your room, your measurements and how you live.

Designed around you

Drawn in 3D, around your home.

Changed as many times as you need, and only priced once it is right.

Made in our workshop

Made to order in Essex.

Rigid units, glue and dowel, built for this room and no other.

Fitted by our own team

Fitted by people we trust.

The same installation team we have worked with for 17 years.

The finished kitchen

A kitchen you love.

This is the real kitchen, as we fitted it.

Build animation is an illustration. The finished kitchen is real.

Second time round

When someone comes back to you for their next kitchen, you know the first one did its job. This time the brief was a living space that works as more than a kitchen: somewhere to cook, sit at the island and spend the evening.

The doors are full height, in a warm, textured bronze-brown with long black handles, and they run right round the room so it reads as one calm space rather than a wall of appliances.

Open-plan kitchen with a long island, bar stools and full-height textured bronze-brown doors on a herringbone floor

A utility room you can't see

The house had nowhere else for a utility, so we built one into the kitchen, behind doors that match everything else.

The staircase that cut through the room is hidden behind cabinetry too. Close the doors and you'd never know either was there. That's the kind of problem a made-to-measure kitchen is for: the awkward bits of a house become storage instead of compromises.

Full-height cabinetry with a glazed display door and long black handles

A tall pantry with everything in view

Tall pantry cupboards open up to lit shelving, with the microwave and a coffee station inside, so the worktops stay clear.

Below the shelves are pull-out drawers, so nothing gets lost at the back. Open the doors in the morning, close them when people come round.

Tall pantry cupboard open with lit shelving, microwave and a coffee station

Cooking at the island

The induction hob on the island has its extraction built in. The vent rises out of the hob when you cook, so there's no hood in the middle of the open-plan space.

Behind it are Neff Slide and Hide pyrolytic ovens, where the door tucks away under the oven, plus a warming drawer, an integrated dishwasher and a fridge and freezer.

Appliances worth seeing before you choose.

Walk round the finished kitchen

The finishes

The worktop is Dekton Trilium in 20mm, with an undermount sink and a brushed tap. The splashback has LED lighting set into it, which washes light down the wall in the evenings.

Glazed display doors break up the run of tall units, and the island end has an open display niche.

Undermount sink with a brushed tap against a stone-effect splashback with LED lighting
Watch it

A kitchen built for busy mornings

Everything for breakfast lives behind one set of doors. Open them, and the lit pantry is all to hand. Close them, and the kitchen goes quiet again.

A kitchen built for busy mornings

The finished kitchen

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Open-plan kitchen with a long island, bar stools and full-height textured bronze-brown doors on a herringbone floorTall units with a built-in oven and a mirrored splashback beside the island hobDouble built-in ovens set into full-height doors with long black handlesIsland worktop with an induction hob and a vent that rises out of the hobTall pantry cupboard open with lit shelving, microwave and a coffee stationUndermount sink with a brushed tap against a stone-effect splashback with LED lightingTall pantry cupboard open with shelves above pull-out drawersIsland end panel with an open display nicheFull-height cabinetry with a glazed display door and long black handles

The kitchen at a glance

A second kitchen for a returning customer, designed as an open-plan living space.

RoomOpen-plan kitchen and living space
DoorsFull height, textured bronze-brown, long black handles
WorktopDekton Trilium, 20mm
CookingInduction hob with built-in extraction, Neff Slide and Hide pyrolytic ovens, warming drawer
StorageTall lit pantry with microwave and coffee station, utility room built into the kitchen
HiddenUtility and staircase behind cabinetry
Made byDesigned, made to order and fitted by CEK
Good to know

Questions we get asked

Yes, if the house has no other space for one. Behind full-height doors that match the kitchen, you can fit the washing machine and storage without anyone seeing it.
An induction hob with the extractor in the middle or at the back. The vent pulls steam down instead of up, so you do not need a hood over the hob. It is ideal for islands and open-plan rooms.
Often, yes. A made-to-measure kitchen can be built around and in front of awkward features, so they become storage or simply disappear behind doors.
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