Onibury · Sorrel 118 · Church Stretton
Burway House
Oak paired with a sage painted island. The tall run is left unpainted to show the timber, with brass throughout.
The room
A 1930s house with a good-sized kitchen and no view worth keeping, so the design pushed everything to the walls and put the interest in the middle. The tall run is quarter-sawn European oak, unpainted and oiled, which on a handleless door is a risk: without a handle to break it up, a badly matched oak run reads as a fence. We sequence the doors from a single board run so the figure carries across the elevation.
The island is Sorrel 118, a grey-green that goes noticeably warmer under the pendant lights than it does in daylight. We painted a full-size sample door and left it with the client for a fortnight before committing, which we now do as standard on any island in a colour.
Brass, unlacquered, so it will tarnish. The client asked for that specifically and it is worth saying out loud to anyone considering it: within eighteen months it will not look like the photograph. It will look better, but it will not look like the photograph.
- Collection Onibury, handleless
- Timber European oak, quarter-sawn
- Paint Sorrel 118, island only
- Worktop Oak on the run, quartz on the island
- Hardware Unlacquered brass
- On site Six days, September 2025
Honestly
What we would change: nothing structural, but the bin drawer is on the far side of the island from the sink. It works, and every one of us would have put it on the near side.
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