Inspired by Austrian Artist Hundertwasser

Designer Peter suggested we could build on that theme, and continued with the design in that same vein in the style of Huntertwasser. They had a particularly awkward and large corner fridge they used to call the ‘carbuncle’, so I suggested making it the main feature of the room and as a result we had that painted by Jim Stanes, along with the turned leg under the worktop to create two visual points in the room.

The idea of the inky blue doors was to focus the eye on the two focal points by blending the colour with the blue in the existing worktops and the dark floor, making a dark background that the two other focal points would leap out of.

The clients wanted lots of colour, so the inside of the doors each has the colour you get a glimpse of in the handles, bleeding the same colour through the hole in the doors from the handles and giving a surprise splash of colour as you open the doors but keeping the backdrop in the inky blue so the two main features are not lost in a sea of other coloured panels.