Metallic
Bronze, graphite and pewter tones with a faint shimmer that changes as you cross the room. Best used on one bank of units rather than everywhere.
A surface that changes as you move past it, which no flat colour does.
Metallic fronts carry a fine shimmer suspended in the finish, so the tone shifts as the light and your position change. Standing still it reads as a deep neutral; walking past, it moves. That is the whole appeal and it does not photograph — it has to be seen.
The palette is bronze, graphite and pewter: warm browns through to cool near-blacks, all of them deep enough to work as the anchor of a room rather than an accent on it.
It is at its best concentrated in one place. A single bank of tall units or an island in a metallic against quieter cabinetry elsewhere gives the effect somewhere to be noticed, and gives the rest of the kitchen room to breathe.
It moves with you
The shimmer shifts as you cross the room, so a metallic run is never quite the same twice. It is the one finish that rewards walking past it.
Bronze, graphite and pewter
Warm browns through to cool near-blacks. Deep enough to anchor a scheme, and all of them sit comfortably with both timber and stone.
One bank, not everywhere
Concentrated on a run of tall units or an island it becomes the feature of the room. That restraint is what makes it feel deliberate.
It wants good lighting
Directional light is what wakes the shimmer up. Lighting planned to rake across the doors rather than straight at them makes the difference.
Pairs with warm metals
Brass and bronze hardware pick up the tone in the doors and tie the room together. Cool chrome sits better against graphite.
A contemporary answer to timber
Where a room wants depth and warmth but timber would be too soft, a bronze metallic does the same job in a harder-edged way.
Metallic kitchens
We have not photographed a metallic kitchen for the website yet. There are more in the showroom, and more still in the brochures.
