My DREAM Hamptons Style Kitchen

jo September 29, 2021 9 Comments

The most common questions I get in the comments and my DM’s on Instagram over the last few years are about the kitchen in our first home (Glam Hamptons), so I thought I’d write a whole blog post breaking down all of the details, from the stone we used, to the colour of the cabinets, the appliances and even the stone edge profile.

When we were building that home, we truly thought it would be our forever home, so we wanted to create our dream kitchen, especially since we had an open plan area, and it really was the heart of the home.

Before I even really knew what the Hamptons style was, I had my mind set on an all white traditional style kitchen, and when I was searching for inspiration on Pinterest, “Hamptons” kept popping up, and well long story short I fell in love with the whole style and as you can tell, I ended up re-designing the rest of the home too.

Hopefully this helps you if you are building or renovating your kitchen, or is something you can reference back to one day when you do!

 

CABINETRY

Like I mentioned above, I wanted an all white traditional style kitchen, and was fortunate enough to have Glenda, who is the designer at Character Cabinets be very, very patient with me, and allow me to keep tweaking bits to create exactly what I envisioned. I sent her multiple photos from Pinterest, asking her to create an island like one photo, but the panels from a different one, another photo for the rangehood and another for the glass cupboards – so basically a real pain in the butt, haha. But she was amazing and turned my ideas into a reality!
 
Majority of this kitchen was custom made, so if you wanted a similar look you would have to go down the custom road too, but I’ll list below the exact details of the cabinetry that might be helpful:
 
COLOUR: Designer White by Solver
FINISH: Two pack paint in a Satin finish
PROFILE: PS1025
PRICE: I’ve had a lot of questions overtime asking how much the cabinetry cost, and it was definitely at the higher end due to the two pack paint, as well as all of the custom created sections, like the island and decorative posts around the oven. Although I can’t provide an actual figure, I want to be as helpful as possible, so I would say allow 3-4x the cost of standard cabinets.

STONE

With the stone, I really wanted a thick marble style vain running throughout, but natural marble wasn’t an option (both from a budget and maintenance perspective), so I searched and searched until I finally came across the incredible “Statuario Venato” by Smartstone. I’d never actually heard of Smartstone, only the usual company’s like Caesarstone and Essastone, who at the time didn’t have great options, but have since added some beautiful new marble look styles to their ranges.

Admittedly again, this stone is definitely not budget friendly, as it is in Smartstone’s Exclusive range, which is at the top end of their price bracket, however looking back that’s one thing I don’t regret at all!

In photo’s it looked beautiful, but in person it was even better, and I can’t even count how many of our family and friends who would look at in person and not believe us when we said it wasn’t natural marble, it was that realistic (but without all of the maintenance!)

When it came to the profile edge of the stone, I was considering going with a more modern pencil cut, but I couldn’t take my mind off the beautiful French/ Double Ogee profile which I felt really finished the kitchen off.

So in summary:

STONE: Statuario Venato Gloss by Smartstone (engineered stone)

THICKNESS: 40mm

PROFILE: 40mm French Ogee with Palladio Apron (as per the stonemason)

LIGHTING

Picking lighting is a little less stressful, because you generally have the ability to change it, which is exactly what we did after about 2.5 years. We initially started with more industrial style chrome pendants, which are commonly used in Hamptons style kitchens, but after a while I wanted to change them out for a different style, and went with matte black cube style pendants, which I found at a great price!

The industrial chrome pendants were purchased from a store in Perth called Lighting Warehouse which recently closed down, however Beacon lighting do very similar ones, which I’ll link below.

The black pendants I picked up on sale from Early Settler for only $65 each!! It look’s like they still stock them, so I’ll also leave them linked below if you are interest.

FIXTURES & APPLIANCES

I also thought I’d add in all of the tapware, handles and appliance details at the end here, as I often get questions about those too. I have also added a link to all of the items I could find online.

HANDLES: Castella Cup Pull in the colour Pewter, Model #008.064.14

KNOBS: Castella Fluted Knob in the colour Pewter, Model #056.034.14

TAP: Antiqua – Chrome Gooseneck Twinner Sink Mixer from The Sink Warehouse

SINK: Lifestyle 200U Double Bowl Stainless Steel from The Sink Warehouse

OVEN: Miele H2661B

HOTPLATE: Miele KM6381 Induction

RANGEHOOD: Ilve IVUM90X

DISHWASHER: Miele G 4204 Active CLST – Fully Integrated

COFFEE MACHINE: DeLonghi La Specialista in Matte Black

FRIDGE: Fisher & Paykel French Door Stainless Steel

 

I hope that this helps you with designing your dream kitchen too, and if I forgotten to add anything, or if you have any questions please let me know below in the comments ♡

9 thoughts on “My DREAM Hamptons Style Kitchen”

  5. Attractive section of content I just stumbled upon your blog and in accession capital to assert that I get actually enjoyed account your blog posts Anyway I will be subscribing to your augment and even I achievement you access consistently fast

    Reply

Leave a Reply