Room to move
This spacious kitchen facilitates an easy flow for family, including
a wheelchair user, without having a utilitarian feel
A key part of the owners’ brief to architect
Mona Quinn for the redesign of this kitchen was
to create a relaxed feel while incorporating easy
wheelchair access to most areas for one child.
Achieving a decent-sized study area within the
kitchen was also part of the design programme.
“We decided early on in the piece to avoid
having a separate dining area and this freed up
much more room for the kitchen. It also meant
we could have a large adjacent, walk-in scullery
that helps keep the main kitchen mess free.”
Broad door openings between the kitchen
and scullery and the kitchen and adjacent hall
mean all areas are unobtrusively wheelchair
friendly. The pocket doors to the scullery don’t
take up space while the kitchen has an open
connection to the hallway.
The sculptural, stepped cantilevered island
is the centrepiece of the kitchen and again
plenty of under-bench room was included for
easy wheelchair access. Substantial steel engi-
neering underpins the long cantilever.
“The island’s crisp upper benchtop is in
Caesarstone Snow while, mindful of budget, we
chose to finish the long, lower countertop in con-
crete-look Formica,” Quinn says. “The perimeter
Above: This generous-sized family
kitchen by architect Mona Quinn
of Callidus Architects provides
plenty of access room for one of
the owners’ children who uses a
wheelchair. However, clean, crisp
lines, restrained finishes and colours,
and the flowing nature of the cabinet
design means the wide space
between areas goes completely
unnoticed. Brushed chrome
pendants add a touch of industrial
chic to the design.
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