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The Great Eversden New-Build
Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire
The Great Eversden New-Build is a handleless Mapesbury-style bespoke kitchen designed by Bridger Bespoke for a new-build country home in Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire, hand-painted in Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone and Charleston Gray on Aurora Calacatta Gold quartz, with an ILVE Majestic 120cm range cooker.
A landmark commission spanning nine rooms in a luxury new-build overlooking the Cambridgeshire countryside. Two bespoke islands anchor the handleless Mapesbury kitchen - one for preparation, the other angled toward garden views with banquette seating - while a cohesive design language of Skimming Stone and Charleston Gray carries through the boot room, media lounge, bathroom, and five individually detailed bedroom suites.
The handleless Mapesbury cabinetry in Skimming Stone and Charleston Gray is detailed with Armac Martin Carlton hardware in satin antique lacquer and finished throughout in Aurora Calacatta Gold quartz. Bespoke elements define each room - a gliding ash ladder in the boot room, an ILVE Majestic range beneath a custom mantle in the kitchen, Crittall-framed shelving in the media lounge, and individually designed wardrobes and dressing areas in every bedroom suite.
Kitchen Details
- Cabinetry StyleHandleless Traditional Mapesbury
- Colour PaletteSkimming Stone & Charleston Gray (Farrow & Ball)
- WorktopsAurora Calacatta Gold Quartz, Ogee Edge
- Range CookerILVE Majestic 120cm, Matt Graphite with Bronze Knobs
- SinkShaws Egerton Offset Double Bowl
- TapsQuooker Classic Fusion with CUBE & Perrin & Rowe Pot Filler
- HardwareArmac Martin Carlton, Satin Antique Lacquered
- Wine CoolingKaelo Patinated Brass Countertop Cooler
- Project ScopeKitchen, Boot Room, Media Lounge, Bathroom & Five Bedrooms
The Brief
A nine-room luxury new-build in Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire required a single bespoke cabinetry package across the kitchen, boot room, media lounge, principal bathroom and five bedrooms. The brief was to draw a unified Mapesbury design language across the whole project, with each room composed to its own architectural function and tied together by paint and material continuity.
Design Response
The kitchen follows an L-shape with two islands. The first sits centrally within the L as a working prep and storage zone. The second is angled toward the garden views with a gently curved end carrying bar seating on one side and a bespoke banquette on the other, modelled on a favourite bistro restaurant's seating. The two islands resolve the brief's twin functions: rigorous cooking and informal social use, in the same architectural language.
The Mapesbury handleless detail carries across every cabinetry door in the kitchen with one exception: the integrated appliance fronts. Fridges and dishwashers require a firmer grip than touch-latch can provide, so these doors carry Armac Martin Carlton handles in satin antique satin lacquered finish. The exception is composed rather than concealed: the brass picks up the rest of the brassware in the room and reads as a deliberate punctuation of the otherwise unbroken cabinetry line.
Colour is the second proportional move. The perimeter cabinetry is hand-painted in Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone, a warm light grey that sits comfortably in both natural and artificial light. The two islands are hand-painted in Farrow & Ball Charleston Gray, a deeper warm grey that grounds the centre of the room. Aurora Calacatta Gold quartz in a soft matte finish, with an ogee profile edge, carries across every worktop. Beneath the cabinetry, LED strips set the ambient lighting; an angled external skirting plinth finishes the cabinetry with a tailored architectural edge.
Detail Focus
The architectural Mapesbury run
A handleless Mapesbury elevation in Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone, broken only by the symmetrical ILVE Majestic 120cm range in matt graphite with bronze knobs, framed by a bespoke mantle housing the Westin Prime extractor and finished with an antiqued mirrored splashback. The discipline of the run is in what has been removed: no visible hinges, no handle line, no expressed joints. The brass of the ILVE knobs and the Carlton handles on integrated appliance doors are the deliberate accents that the rest of the cabinetry is composed against.
Materials Palette
- Cabinetry style
- Handleless Mapesbury with traditional detailing, hand-painted on site in five coats.
- Perimeter paint
- Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone, a warm light grey.
- Island paint
- Farrow & Ball Charleston Gray on both islands and the boot room cabinetry.
- Worktop
- Aurora Calacatta Gold quartz in soft matte finish, ogee profile edge.
- Cabinetry interior
- Oak veneer interiors with solid oak dovetail-jointed drawer boxes.
- Range cooker
- ILVE Majestic 120cm in matt graphite with bronze knobs, eight burners, framed by a bespoke mantle with antiqued mirrored splashback.
- Extraction
- Westin Prime, integrated into the bespoke mantle.
- Pot filler
- Perrin & Rowe English bronze.
- Refrigeration
- Fisher & Paykel integrated fridge freezer concealed behind cabinetry; Fisher & Paykel glass-fronted wine cabinet exposed on the main island.
- Dishwasher
- Miele integrated.
- Sink
- Shaws Egerton offset double bowl sink, classic white.
- Tap
- Quooker Classic Fusion with CUBE in patinated brass, paired with a Yardley bespoke rinse tap in aged brass and a Quooker soap dispenser with Scale Control.
- Waste disposal
- InSinkErator in English Bronze.
- Wine cooler
- Kaelo wine bottle cooler in patinated brass, integrated into the curved socialising island.
- Handles (integrated appliances only)
- Armac Martin Carlton in satin antique satin lacquered finish.
- Cabinetry detail
- Pantry cupboard with integrated spice rack, bespoke cutlery and utensil trays, oak butler trays, S-Box pop-up socket, angled external skirting plinth.
- Other rooms
- Boot room with bespoke gliding ladder on brass patina poles in Charleston Gray. Media lounge with Crittall doors and shelving in Farrow & Ball Estate Eggshell 2005. Principal bathroom in Farrow & Ball Worsted with Heartley Grey polished quartz. Master walk-in wardrobe and four bedrooms drawn in Skimming Stone and Charleston Gray.
Every Bridger Bespoke kitchen is drawn from scratch in response to the architecture of the room. There is no catalogue. There are no ranges. The cabinetry is engineered and built entirely in our own workshop in Bishop’s Stortford.
In Collaboration With
- Interior design collaborationInterior Designer
Highlights of This Kitchen
Dual-Island Kitchen
Two purpose-built islands - one for preparation with integrated storage, the other angled toward the garden with curved banquette seating and a Kaelo wine cooler in patinated brass.
Bespoke Boot Room
A galley of floor-to-ceiling Charleston Gray cabinetry with a handmade gliding ladder in ash timber, brass patina poles, and antique bronze coat hooks.
Media Lounge
Symmetrical shelving flanks an integrated fireplace and television, framed by Crittall-style doors and finished in soft Estate Eggshell white.
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Master Dressing Suite
A walk-in wardrobe in Charleston Gray with three mirrored glass doors and integrated lighting, paired with a Skimming Stone dressing table in solid oak.
Frequently asked questions
Why use handleless cabinetry across most of the kitchen but Carlton handles on the integrated appliance doors?
Handleless cabinetry gives the Mapesbury elevation a continuous unbroken line, which is the architectural intent. Integrated appliance doors carry more weight and benefit from a firmer grip than a touch-latch can provide. The Armac Martin Carlton handles in satin antique satin lacquered finish are detailed as deliberate brass punctuation that picks up the rest of the brassware in the room.
How does the cabinetry language carry from the kitchen into the rest of the house?
A nine-room cabinetry package was drawn for the project, with the Mapesbury detail carried into the boot room, media lounge, principal bathroom, master dressing room and five bedrooms. Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone, Charleston Gray and Worsted carry the colour palette across the rooms; oak block worktops and Aurora Calacatta Gold quartz tie the surfaces; the same Armac Martin Carlton handles appear throughout.
What was the rationale for two kitchen islands?
A central prep and storage island within the L, paired with a second curved island angled toward the garden views. The second island carries bar seating on one side and a bespoke banquette on the other, modelled on a favourite bistro restaurant. The pairing separates working function from informal social use without making either feel secondary.
This project was crafted in our own workshop by The Handmade Kitchen Company.