The kitchen is at the heart of the family home and a place for everyone to meet, eat and play. Children, from toddlers to teens, should be a consideration when designing your dream kitchen. As bespoke kitchen designers in Somerset with over twenty years of experience, we get to know your family to understand your unique needs.
Kitchens are more than just food preparation and storage rooms and more than a place where we cook and eat. A genuinely bespoke kitchen is inspiring, creative and a safe and nurturing environment. What’s more, a modern child-friendly kitchen goes beyond child locks or rounded edges. It’s a place where the whole family can be happy.
Child-Friendly Kitchen Storage
Storage in a kitchen comes in all shapes and sizes. To involve your clan in wholesome activities on their journey to discovering healthy eating habits and the joy of food, giving your children a cupboard of their own or a shelf or area in the pantry is a great idea. We can design low-level units or cabinet interiors to ensure safety, intrigue and fun.
More Than a Kitchen
Incorporating areas within your kitchen for more than just cooking and eating will offer you more quality family time. We’ve designed homework stations, chill-out zones and multi-functional seating so everyone can enjoy the space together. In our Fulham Kitchen project in London, we developed a kitchen with a chill-out area and a desk station, all with a fun and contemporary palette. The banquette seating and the sofa and shelving areas by the windows were designed for reading and relaxing, while the mini office on the upper level could be used for homework. Thanks to its style and sophistication, the bespoke kitchen was child-friendly and envied by the family’s neighbours.
Suitable Kitchen Surfaces
Compromising style and suitable kitchen surfaces for a child-friendly kitchen is a thing of the past. You can have a stunning handmade kitchen with beautiful surfaces that lasts until the kids go to university and beyond. We designed a bespoke kitchen with high cupboards, an easy-clean floor, and Fenix cabinetry fronts for our Contemporary Kitchen in Somerset. The beauty of the clever, engineered material is that it is virtually scratch-proof, easy to clean and hard-wearing. So not only is Fenix a contemporary-looking material with ample style potential, but it is also ideal for multi-generational practical homes.
Kitchens for Toddlers & Teens
Designing kitchens is what we do best, so no matter how diverse your family is, there are ways of pleasing and safeguarding your loved ones. For teens, you’ll want a kitchen that doubles up as a space where they can easily prep meals and entertain their friends. Adding Zip taps for bottomless sparkling water is a treat for everyone, and a sociable kitchen island is ideal for hanging out and perching on.
For our Frome Kitchen project in Somerset, we did exactly that. The kitchen island, made with another hard-wearing child-friendly material called Valchromat, was the perfect choice for this busy home. The material is an environmentally friendly, non-toxic substance made from recycled pine wood and mill waste, manufactured using waste wood such as branches and chips from softwood forests. We also designed the stylish kitchen island with curvature so there are no sharp edges for the toddler of the house to run into. The elegant kitchen ticked all the boxes for the entire family.
