CASE STUDY
CREATE A NATURAL AFFINITY BETWEEN THE KITCHEN AND GARDEN
A great way to create a natural link between the kitchen and outside world is to select quality raw materials that blend seamlessly with their surroundings. By extending the style and finish of your kitchen cabinetry, worksurfaces, and flooring into a garden’ s hard landscaping elements, it’ ll create a smoother, more fluid transition between inside and out, which is coordinated and nurturing.
Popular for its exceptional aesthetic versatility, timeless appeal, and renewable qualities, wood continues to create a sense of belonging. Known for naturally inducing high dopamine levels, wood can leverage the biophilic effect in your kitchen so you can experience complete sensory immersion from sunrise to sunset.
Natural stone is also a beautiful way to bring the outside in. Sourcing individual slabs of granite or quartzite introduces something unique and special into your design, transforming the material palette into one that feels more natural, organic, and timeless. Taking inspiration from Europe, large format tiles are a practical choice as they can be used for both interior and exterior applications.
Classic French doors or sliding doors are a great more cost effective option to bifolding doors whilst maintaining wall space for your kitchen cabinetry yet still provide access to the garden using a large, glazed entrance way. For a modern look, why not incorporate low profile picture windows so you can enjoy your garden at eye level or introduce sky lights to add more natural light and enhance the connection between inside and outside.
A fully glazed glass façade or curtain wall will help to reduce your reliance on artificial light sources in the home, while softening the visual barrier between your indoor cooking space and outdoors. By creating unrestricted sight lines from the kitchen to the garden, you’ ll be able to flood the main living space in natural daylight to better connect with the natural world. The introduction of sky lights will add more natural light and enhance the connection between inside and outside.
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