Charmean Neithart Interiors, LLC. This is just awesome. I love every detail. What a challenge that seems to have been pulled off with great ingenuity and style. Thanks Vanessa, this kitchen is really special.

MINOSA Thank you Charmean, it was a real challenge and one that took a lot time, sketches and discussion! But these are the projects that have the best results...it helps a lot when the clients are incredible people and support the design in every detail.

Charmean Neithart Interiors, LLC. Well done Minosa. This is excellent work, I hope you are very proud of yourselves. Agree, supportive clients make all the difference. I'm anxious to see more of your projects. Best regards. Charmean

Linda Derosa Totally stunning throughout Bravo!

olldroo And not a trace of granite to be seen. Long live Corian!!!!!

MINOSA Thanks, here are few posts on our YouTube channel Minosa09 showing the doors & the remote controlled table in action...also the the 3D Animation we produced for the client prior to construction.

Amanda Haytaian Amazing!!!

Affecting Spaces Love it. Just beautiful.

jdforney I nearly fell out of my chair looking at that lovely marble & walnut table. It's beautiful. I would love an invitation to dinner at their apartment! While my entertaining habits are more, um, low key, I completely appreciate their ability to have a hired hand for parties. Now I'm adding a scullery to my dream kitchen.

MINOSA jdforney :) dinner parties are something else! they are very good hosts and the food is incredible.....it comes alive at night time also with all of the artificial lighting....

almaskhan What are the overall dimensions of the kitchen space and family space combined?

MINOSA alamskan - the space was around 11metres long and 6 meters wide. I will dig out a floor plan and post later on

20margaret how much did the hidden kitchen cost???????

keithg This is awful.. Clorox white, monolithic sliding doors (just to grab the salt), Doors to open before opening doors-microwave, Other doors swinging 180 degrees that have to be shut again after they have banged on the stops or the door behind. As a design excercise- maybe in the 70s perfect house, but hardly friendly for a family of five!

paulamurphylang I was just wondering how you dealt with the electrical code concealing the oven the way you did

MINOSA Paula, great question! It all comes down to the joinery, we created void spaces to allow the ovens to ventilate...but most importantly it comes down to the design of the modules. The way the cabinets are laid out means that the door of the oven is never closed when cooking....each of the 1200mm wide doors has a separate function...so when the door that covers the ovens is open it goes oven the door with the hi fi equipment in it...this (hifi) is all run thru a host of wifi components so the two doors will never need to be open at the same time.

MINOSA Keith, thanks for you comments...I like to here all sides of people's thoughts! However I do disagree with your comments! The one key thing with design is it is subjective to the people you are creating for and in my experience we are all different....
Salt, you will always have to open a door to get the salt! The difference here is when you are cooking you slide open the 1200mm wide door with the touch of you finger and it reveals ALL of the condiments and all of the pots and all of the other products required for cooking! To suggest this is a step back in time is ( in my opinion) way off the mark!
The same goes for the ovens, these clients are not big on microwave, when they cook they cook...and if it is a reheat the doors open soooooo easy it does not come into thought. Keith as the space is realativly small at 66m2 to get a large kitchen, 10 seater dinning table, 4 seater sofa and two designer arm chairs (with foot stools) in and to make this look the business there are sometimes small sacrifices that need to be made...In my opinion an ultimately the clients it as more important to have all of the appliances disappear when not in use as the entire space is used far more than the microwave.
With 180 degree doors that give access to the scullery....these doors fold back on them selves and do not (ever) stop the function of any other door opening or closing...they are held in place by magnets (very strong ones as the easterly breeze tha comes of bondi beach whips up) and 90% of the time they remain open...it is only when the clients want to hide a mess that the doors are closed....
This space has been extremely well thought out and works incredibly well for the people it was designed for....it is always difficult in such a relatively small amount of words and 10 pictures portrait this 100%
Thanks

taureg It is beautiful and must have cost a fortune.

midmodfan Concealed kitchens are the latest trend, I read in Europe's #1 interior design magazine.
We do have one and it works very well. When you have a rather small open place, a hidden kitchen is a great solution.

Pat Bernard Design, Inc. WOW! Thoughtful design and execution for a white, modern room that is warm and purposeful. Well done.

MINOSA Here is the floor plan as promised

Lanecraft Lane and Coach Houses Inc I've seen others asking about the cost...any chance you can give an idea what everything cost, design and construction, including appliances?
Thank you,
Thomas

olldroo It would be so lovely to know costs, many Houzzers have raised this over many ideasbooks but in this case I think you would have to think of designer ethics.

Don't forget too this website is world wide so costs would vary from one country to another.

MINOSA It is a really hard to put a total value on & out of respect for our client i would prefer Not say. This was a massive renovation of a very outdated space and was completely redesigned and rebuilt from top to toe... It was not cheap but as you can see from the floor plan we have created a very large kitchen / storage area out of a small space...and all the mechanisms and drawers that are needed to make a space like this work do add up. Sorry

Vivace Design Group Inc. All too often, while builing new homes and designing kitchens, the customer and the builder like to think re-sale re-sale re-sale and try to design a kitchen or space to please most of the market instead of pleasing themselves (the ones actually living there and paying the bill). Unfortunately these spaces end up looking like every other spec home (on maybe a bigger scale) and they may lose some of their "custom" house appeal. I agree that every customer is different and how wonderful that we can customize each kitchen to each individual or family. How boring would this site be if all kitchens suited all families. I love the variation! Beautiful work MINOSA, and I applaud your attention to detail!!! I am a kitchen designer and I would call this a HOME RUN!!

thirdstone inc. [^] MINOSA - Congratulations on a truly remarkable project...period. All i can say is that you were too kind to dignify Keith's comment with a well written and gracious response. He just needs to find himself a life - preferably on another planet.

Lanecraft Lane and Coach Houses Inc Agreed wholeheartedly, and to say something so beautiful is awful, well that's just not polite. I hope I don't start a war of words...congrats on everything from the design to the execution to having such a great client who shares your vision...that's my dream! Keep the great work coming and forget the naysayers not that you need my advice! The difference between dreams and reality? Just do it.

MINOSA THANK YOU! to all have taken the time to engage with our design, good or bad it is all good. Thank you. We look forward to sharing more of our work with you.
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Cheers

olldroo I wish I could say you could come and do my kitchen - on a pensioner budget.

Mackenzie Austin Design Positively stunning!

indecor I like the originality of the design, its really use a lot of creativity to create such an environment

twistlike still cant see what the dimensions of the room are-shame as i was hoping to see if some of this concept could be implimented into our plans as the shaping of the design is a little bit what i had in mind when we thought of knocking a 16ftx10ft dining room and a kitchen 8ft 6x8ft6 to make almost one room.it's hard when you havent got much of a budget-ive found if it isnt one thing stopping my ideas its another!

MINOSA Hi twiatlike I you look at the comment thread about 10up from this one I have posted the floor plan. It is always difficult, especially when forced to work with a tight budget. You really need to have a clear mindset on the important elements and stick to your guns! Best of luck hope the floor plan works for you.

twistlike thanks for reply- sorry its not the plans themselves i cant see, i found those- the measurements of the room the kitchen is in. if i try to make it bigger using the computer tools it just makes everything fuzzy.

travelngal @Vivace Design Group: Right on! My thoughts exactly. We are building our dream home and decided early on that we couldn't give a hoot about future buyers. Not everything in this house is to my taste but I LOVE the integrity of the design, the vision and the execution of it! So Bravo Minosa on a really interesting project. Thanks for sharing!