Wealden Times | WT200 | October 2018 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

JM Interiors
James Mundy, Managing Director,
and Amy Biddle, Marketing
Manager
JM Interiors is a family business,
started by our father, so we have
both grown up with it. James has
worked in all aspects of building
kitchens and has a lot of experience
working with classic old Wealden
buildings which don’t have any
straight walls.
When new clients come in we
ask a lot of questions. The first
two meetings are info gathering,
listening to what they want to
get out of a kitchen. We can pick
up a great vibe for what they like
from what makes them excited in
the showroom. That’s why it’s so
important to come in.
Once people have had a play
about and tried our deep and
wide pan drawers, they go on
the list. They might not have
experienced them before. Another
idea they pick up on is having a big
cupboard as an ‘appliance garage’
with plugs inside. A working
coffee area inside a cupboard and
cold shelves in larders for pastry
making. It’s all about hiding
things that traditionally sat on
the worktop and getting rid of
clutter.
If people arrive with lots of
images of enormous islands for
what is really quite a small space,
we can explain ‘The dishwasher
isn’t going to open…’ and we can
show them with a tape measure.
This kitchen was the second we
built for the same client. They
moved house and wanted to take
their old kitchen with them, but
since the first one they’d added
two children to the mix.
It’s in a traditional Kentish
farmhouse. For this version we
added a Belfast sink, an Everhot
range cooker, lots of touches of
warm solid oak and changed
from black granite to lighter
quartz for the worktop which
helped to lighten the kitchen.
JM Interiors, Biddenden, Kent.
01580 291221 jminteriorsuk.uk