The case against kitchen wall units

Loaf is showing off its lovely new kitchen accessories range in this low level kitchen.

If you need maximum kitchen storage this feature isn't for you. But if you want to make your kitchen feel larger, then doing away with kitchen wall units is key. When you clutter up the walls at eye level with built in furniture you draw everything in and your room will feel smaller. 

Wall units don't work well in open plan spaces 

This elegant fireclay kitchen sink by Kallista sat into handless base units will look great along an open-plan back wall

Where your kitchen is part of a larger open-plan living space, it's best not to draw attention to it. Wall units make a kitchen feel more like a traditional kitchen, if you opt largely for sleek handleless base units, this area of the room will look more like its harbouring a smart sideboard when not in use. 

This Cooke & Lewis's Carisbrooke ivory Kitchen from B&Q has been designed to maximise the flow of light into the room

And, by avoiding wall units around windows you will bring much more light in. 

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