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Modern Kitchens

With these nine inspiring kitchen ideas, the party may just start in the kitchen

By Lisa Wallace | March 8, 2016 | Category interiors

Highveld Highs

 

Photograph: Dook

 This kitchen by Ideations is the hub of a Highveld home. Straddling Joburg’s Linksfield Ridge, this glass house demonstrates how architecture can create a showpiece of nature’s elements – the kitchen being no exception.

Muted Monochrome

 

Photograph: Elsa Young

 All the bulky kitchen appliances are neatly concealed behind dark-wood cabinets in this sleek and streamlined Parktown North home. Function and form marry in effortless style.

Panelled Simplicity

Photograph: Elsa Young

 In this luxurious bachelor pad designed by Andrea Graff, panelling screens the working part of the kitchen from the rest of the open-plan living space.

Modern versus Rustic

Photograph: Elsa Young

 The washed-oak kitchen island’s design creates extra storage space. Humble, rustic textures and cool contemporary design make magic in a Cape Town manor house.

Minimal Modern

Photograph: Elsa Young

 A palette of military greys dominates most of the rooms in this minimalist Joburg home. Functionality drives the design but details such as a 1950s-style spike clock imbue it with personality.

Living Kitchen

Photograph: Elsa Young/Frank Features

 This kitchen is designed to be part of the living space and so the ‘Beatrice’ armchairs by Poltrona Frau do double duty as armchairs. Graphic pendant lights by Moooi hang above the dining table, which was custom-made by Cécile & Boyd’s.

Material Wonder

 

Photograph: Dook

 Intersecting steel beams are both structural and aesthetic, rendering and industrial-modern edge to a country-chic kitchen and framing the wall behind it. Modernist lines meet understated natural contours in this Lanseria home.

Artful Architecture

 

Photograph: Greg Cox

 The owner of this Cape Town house designed around family life, contemporary architecture is complemented by a modern take on African motifs. In the kitchen, the owner custom designed the shelving in the kitchen.

Sophisticated Imbibing

 

Photograph: Dook

 Coffee-coloured marble blends almost seamlessly with the wood panelling and floor tiles to create a tone-on-tone effect. Eames stools and a leather ottoman continue the thread. In this Sandton home, contemporary finishes create comfort and sophistication.