Kitchen of the Week: Will Green's Restored 19th-Century Schoolhouse Kitchen

"Will Green is a fourth-generation antiques dealer and designer based in Towcester, Northamptonshire, where his family has run shops since 1955. He grew up in a house where furniture was always coming and going-nothing static, everything handled, assessed, and sent back out into the world. That early training now informs both the antiques he sources and the bespoke pieces he designs under his own name."

"The kitchen, formerly the scullery, was the first major undertaking. "The previous owners used it as a storeroom, almost like a shed. But all the right bones were there for us to transform it into a kitchen: the flagstone floor, the original layout, and the step-down pantry/dairy." Original flagstones were lifted and re-laid after installing underfloor heating-some weighing as much as 200kg."

Will Green is a fourth-generation antiques dealer and designer based in Towcester whose family has run shops since 1955. Early exposure to constantly circulating furniture shaped his approach to sourcing antiques and designing bespoke pieces. He and his wife Hayley undertook a slow, room-by-room restoration of a late-18th/19th-century manor house just under 5,700 square feet. The first major project converted a scullery into a kitchen, re-laying original flagstones after installing underfloor heating. Wall finishes were made by processing clay dug from beneath the flagstones and mixing the pigment into lime wash. The kitchen now serves the family and their two black labs.

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