How to Design an Industrial Kitchen That Doesn't Feel Cold

The industrial kitchen is, at this point, the most coveted and most frequently botched aesthetic in British residential design. Type the phrase into any interiors platform and you will be rewarded with thousands of images: matte black cabinetry, exposed metals, raw materials, dramatic lighting. You will also, if you look closely, notice how many of them feel slightly wrong. Too dark. Too hard. The kind of kitchen you'd admire in a photograph and find quietly exhausting to actually cook in.