H.A. Villa
A villa interior anchored by a working kitchen — the room where the family actually lives — and developed outward so every adjacent space inherits the same hospitality.
A modern family kitchen and daily living interior where warm oak panelling meets grey stone counters.
- Location
- Istanbul
Project Narrative
The clients cook every meal at home and host most weekends. The kitchen needed to be the architectural centre of gravity, not a service room hidden behind doors. We made it the largest connected space and arranged everything else to spill out from it.
Every cabinet was specified around a real piece of equipment in the family's existing kitchen — the espresso machine, the stand mixer, the children's water bottles. Storage was sized so nothing important needed to live on a counter.
Oak panelling lines the walls in flat stack-bond, while grey honed limestone tops the island and the perimeter run. Pendant lights at three different scales hang above the bar — each chosen for the silhouette it gives the kitchen at night.
The kitchen has become the room everyone defaults to. Adults work at the island while children do homework at the dining table — the same air, the same light, the same conversation.
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