It was the mid-century attraction of this quaint residence within the township of Angaston, South Australia, that drew this younger household in earlier than buying it in September of final 12 months.
Initially inbuilt 1960 by a neighborhood constructing household, the double-brick pad got here with lots of its unique options — together with the kitchen. Although it was cute and in improbable situation contemplating its age, it didn’t fairly swimsuit the wants of a rising household who liked to prepare dinner collectively and entertain.
So, they enlisted the workforce at Spacecraft Joinery to assist remodel the house into one thing greater and updated with up to date requirements, whereas nonetheless paying homage to its retro roots.
In case you’re acquainted with Spacecraft’s work, you’ll know that designing distinctive kitchens injected with persona is their forte. Naturally, designer Sarah Katsaros and her workforce took this shopper’s temporary and ran with it.
‘The shopper wished to attain an area that interpreted the mid-century trendy aesthetic in full color,’ she says. ‘The overarching objective was to craft a flexible and visually partaking kitchen house, serving as the point of interest for household life, culinary pursuits, social interactions and distant work, all inside the constraints of a specified price range.’
Preliminary structural adjustments included flattening the wall of the unique adjoining research and bricking up its door to create one giant kitchen space from two smaller rooms.
Per the shopper’s request to include greens, yellows, oranges and reds, mustard yellow cabinetry, burnt ochre laminate benches and earthy inexperienced tiles had been used to create a way of concord and mirror the colors of the encompassing pure surroundings of the Barossa Valley. However, a terrazzo breakfast bar benchtop serves as a press release characteristic to distinction the kitchen’s muted tones.
‘The purchasers had been torn between the cost-effective high quality of laminate benchtops and the wonder and curiosity of a terrazzo benchtop, so we gave them the very best of each worlds!’ Sarah explains.
To additional replicate the mid-century aesthetic, Spacecraft designed curved joinery and blackwood timber benchtops as a nod to the period — together with the curved characteristic rangehood field, additionally in mustard yellow, that sandwiches the inexperienced tiles with the yellow cabinetry on the again wall.
Regardless of having a restricted price range to work with, it’s clear Spacecraft had been nonetheless capable of work their signature magic to ship a spacious but stylish household kitchen.
