Plywood Kitchen Improvements

Bespoke plywood additions to an off-the-shelf kitchen

If you’re anything like me, the kitchen is the most important room in the house, Well, apart from the workshop, obviously. I’d suggest that of all the rooms in your abode, the kitchen is the one that will most benefit from the practicality and beauty that bespoke joinery will bring - you see and use it several times a day, every day.

If you’ve just moved in, a new kitchen is often the first thing you’ll think of investing in - but what if you’re in a brand new flat with a brand new kitchen, and that brand new kitchen was plonked in by a developer more interested in their bottom line than providing adequate storage, design flair or pops of colour.

Soooooo…. The Modern Carpenter to the rescue!

The brief here was to provide some bench seating with integrated storage, an extension to the kitchen units, and utilise a weird vacant gap that must have come about due to the strange angles in the room and a developer not shelling out for a bespoke kitchen.

Ahh yes - those angles. There wasn’t a right angle in the place. We got there in the end, but, you know - measure twice, cut once, install, don’t install, re-measure twice, make a template, measure again, cut once more.

Gem, shamelessly lounging on our made-to-measure seat cushions

We added a subtle waft of colour in the seat cushions - I think the soft pink combines with the grey kitchen and natural wood to make a very calming space. They’re made by us (alright, by Gem) bespoke, with washable covers.

Extra cupboard space. The shelves in the top right were once the weird vacant gap.

Here’s that extra cupboard space, adding a much needed contrast to the original grey kitchen.

Really pleased with the way this all turned out - it was a challenge in both the design and fitting stage just because of all those angles, but worth it for the end result.