Eucalyptus Green Kitchen
Louth

The clients wanted a kitchen that felt warm and connected to the garden: something that brought the neutral, natural tones of outside into the home. The brief was for a kitchen with real warmth and character that would work properly in an everyday family room.

The project was a straight replacement in the existing footprint, with one wall deliberately kept clear of units to keep the room feeling light and open. That decision set the tone for everything that followed: rather than filling the available space with storage, the design was built to feel open. 

The peninsula breakfast bar sits at one end, where the clients can eat breakfast and look out of the window: a practical, well-positioned social space that works just as well as a much larger island, perfect for a room of this size. The retained freestanding fridge was worked into the design with a bespoke cubby unit built above it, so it reads as part of the kitchen rather than something left over.

The cabinetry is Häcker Porto in Eucalyptus, a soft green that sits at the warmer, more natural end of the green palette. It adds the calm, outdoors-influenced tone the clients were after without the kitchen feeling like a colour statement. The worktops are Dekton in a travertine-inspired finish: natural-stone-looking, durable and well suited to a busy family kitchen. Matching upstands run to the same height throughout and a matching windowsill completes the line, tying the surfaces together cleanly. 

The antique bronze mirror splashback behind the hob adds warmth and reflected light, and ties naturally with the bronze handles specified throughout. The sink is an 1810 Company Luxso 1.5 bowl stainless steel undermount, chosen for its practical 25mm radius corners which make it considerably easier to keep clean than a tighter-cornered equivalent. The tap is the 1810 Company Henry Holt in red: an unusual choice that reads as a deliberate feature detail. 

The induction hob is Neff, with a hidden integrated extractor in the wall unit above that vents straight through the external wall behind it. The oven is a Neff Flex collection Slide&Hide, with the door folding back under the oven rather than swinging out into the room: a particularly useful feature in a kitchen of this size where the oven position sits within a normal working arc. The warm LVT flooring was chosen by the clients with Sam’s advice that a natural-wood-look surface would bring warmth back into the room to complement the green cabinetry.

The project was a supply-only arrangement in practice: the clients already knew Sam’s fitter, and once that connection became apparent it made sense for them to engage him directly. As with all Samuel Neal projects, however, Sam remained present throughout the installation and attended at key stages, including worktop templating and installation.

The nature-inspired eucalyptus colour, travertine worktops and bronze detailing give it real warmth. It is also a useful reminder that a well-designed kitchen does not need to be large: the right colour, the right layout and the right details can make a more modest room feel as considered as any of the bigger projects in the portfolio.