Kitchen
The Long Kitchen
Eleven feet by nine, cooking for six most nights.
- Where
- Bandra West, Mumbai
- Carpet area
- 320 sq ft
- On site
- 11 weeks
- Finish level
- Bespoke
The brief
A family that actually cooks — three meals a day, two cooks in the room at once, and a tiffin run every morning.
The hard part
A single window, a beam at 2.1 metres, and a plumbing stack that could not move more than 300mm.
What changed
Two people now work back to back without touching, and everything used daily sits between hip and shoulder.
The decisions
Three moves did
most of the work
01
Split the run
Wet work one side, dry and heat the other. It sounds obvious; the previous layout had the sink beside the hob.
02
Dropped the ceiling only where the beam is
A full false ceiling would have cost 200mm across the whole room. A local drop kept the rest at full height.
03
Drawers, not shutters, below the counter
More expensive per running foot, and the only decision nobody has questioned since.
Before and after
The same room,
eight months apart
The rooms
Photographed a year
after handover
Specified
Every finish, named
The written specification runs to eleven pages. This is the part of it you can see from the door.
- Bone laminateShutters, matt, fingerprint-forgiving#EDE8E0
- BasaltCounter and splashback, single slab#3A3A38
- Oiled oakOpen shelves and the tall unit#9A754A
Something like this,
in your flat?
Send us the floor plan and the two things that annoy you most about the space. We will tell you honestly what it would take.