BESPOKE SOLUTION

Keen to include an area for display, Emma considered adding shelving or a gallery wall near the island. ‘Then I realised that there was enough room to include a dresser, but only if I was careful to make it shallower than standard, so that there was still plenty of space to move around the island,’ she explains. Bespoke dresser, Emma Merry Styling. Cotswold mushroom knobs, £10.04 each; Aberdovey drawer pulls, £22.40 each, all in unlacquered antique brass, Armac Martin. Nasir wall lamp, £305, RV Astley. The Dean pendant lights, £482 each, Soho Lighting. Malu Kubu bar chairs, £195 each, La Redoute. Similar Welles bar stool, £119, Swoon