The clients had a clear problem: a tired fitted kitchen in a getaway property on the Pembrokeshire coast that had already needed replacing once and would need replacing again. They wanted something that wouldn't.

The answer was a pared-back Ash layout, seven units, integrated handles, matching worktops. Nothing surplus to what the space and its rhythms of intermittent use actually require. Freestanding means it can be reconfigured if the property changes hands or the brief changes. It also means it can come back to us if it ever needs to.

Buying once, properly, costs less over time.

Photo: Elliot Sheppard