An Artist's Quarter
Sarah Harding of Spaces Ink Design, Canterbury on a kitchen entered in the 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards.
An Artist's Quarter treats the kitchen as part of a larger creative interior rather than a service zone bolted to it. The room is composed, and it is happy to be looked at.
Colour is used with intent. Tones are layered rather than matched, and the contrast between cabinetry and surrounds gives the space a graphic edge without tipping into decoration for its own sake.
The working elements are all present and properly resolved — prep length, sink placement, landing space beside heat — but they have been folded into the composition instead of announcing themselves.
Light moves across the surfaces through the day, and the finishes have been selected to respond to it: matte where the room needs to settle, sheen where it needs to lift.
A kitchen by Sarah Harding of Spaces Ink Design in Canterbury, entered in the 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards.
