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We’ve given you ideas for your bathroom, so it’s time to spark ideas for your new kitchen, here are our favourites from the homes featured in VISI over the last few years.
1960s Modernist Revival Kitchen
Architect Antonio Zaninovic and interior designer Tara Bean returned this 1960s house to its roots, while creating a comfortable, liveable space that celebrated its site.
Read the full story on this 1960s house.
Kommetjie House
In this kitchen, an oak-clad ceiling conceptualised by Emma shelters a central island, also designed by Emma, which serves both as a prep station and a seating area for entertaining. The bar stools are from Chair Crazy.
Read the full story on this Kommetjie house.
Modern Irene Home
This Pieter Mathews of Mathews + Associates showpiece in this Modern Irene Home demonstrates the power of contrast. Rough-hewn concrete against sleek glass, and simple lines and dark cabinetry illuminated by a statement light installation, all achieve balance and impact in a space that makes an impression and lends itself to special occasions.
Read the full feature on this modern Irene Home.
Parkwood House
The kitchen’s lime- green cabinets are its focal point, complemented by appliances and utensils in pastels and bright hues.
Read the full feature on this colourful Parkwood house.
Melbourne Home
In a Melbourne home, Stefan Bagnoli of Bagnoli Architects used brass on an epic scale to clad an entire kitchen unit. This is countered by the fresh, crisp, ultra-glossy white units opposite it, and the warmth of the polished timber floors.
Read the full feature on this Melbourne home.
Roscommon House
The panelling in this welcoming space by architect Neil Cownie is a masterclass in joinery. Sinuous, elegant and organic, it demonstrates how much scope there is to use timber imaginatively. Tan bar stools colour- matched to perfection amplify the golden tones.
Read the full story on the Roscommon House.
Barn-inspired Tamboerskloof Home
Light is the star of the show in this clean and contemporary barn-inspired home by GSquared Architects, designed simply but sculpturally using monochrome tones.
Read the full story on this barn-inspired Tamboerskloof home.
Avant-Garde Parisian Duplex
The kitchen combines blue Fenix cupboards from Perene with a brushed-copper bar on a polished rosewood plinth designed by Dariel Studio. The backsplash features biscuit tiles from 41ZERO42, while the floor tiles are by Raw Edges for Mutina.
Read the full story on this avant-garde Parisian duplex.
Contemporary Farm-style Home
The kitchen is the heart of this contemporary city take on a farmhouse, designed sustainably by owner/architect Friedrich Strey largely using reclaimed materials.
Read the full story on this contemporary farm-style home.
Tulbagh House
The kitchen, as interior designer Maybe Corpaci points out, is surprisingly modern in its openness and position. Its stone floor and vast wood-burning fireplace are features traditional to Cape homesteads.
Read the full story on this Tulbagh house.
Forest Town House
A large light-filled kitchen leads into an impressive dining room. Guedes designed the doors, which include cathedral-glass windows, himself. A lifelong fan of art and design, homeowner Audrey Coleman had the chairs – inspired by Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House chairs – specially made.
Read the full story on this Forest Town house.
Fish Hoek House
The post-reno kitchen is adorned with mossy green shaker-style cabinetry with handles to match those of the Mid-century server, vintage Le Creuset pots, a painting by Marion Smallbones, and hand-painted ceramic tiles from the KZNSA Gallery.
Read the full story on this Fish Hoek house.
Contemporary Pretoria Home
This Pretoria home’s steel-and-glass conservatory-like structure illuminates the spare and pared-back kitchen.
Read the full story on this contemporary Pretoria home.
Pringle Bay Home
The kitchen is a masterclass in minimalism, with plenty of storage keeping clutter at bay. The built-in joinery in the cottage is by Hardmond Joinery, based in Paarl. The ceramic pendant lights above the dining table are from KNUS online store.
Read the full story on this Pringle Bay home.
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