Any chef’s home kitchen is fundamentally different to that seen in a typical family home. Mimicking the efficient designs of the professional kitchen, everything should be on hand and easy to access – something that goes against the current trend for invisible kitchen designs – and cooking should be a streamlined process.
At the same time, the kitchen still needs to feel warm and welcoming, and sit harmoniously within the rest of the house and landscape beyond. Balancing all these elements was the challenge facing kitchen designer Nicholas Sykes, founder of Irving Sykes, while renovating chef Crispin Chetwynd’s kitchen.
