Chuna & TeakInterior Architecture
Enquire

Bandra West, Mumbai · 2025

The Long Kitchen

Eleven feet by nine, cooking for six most nights.

A dark kitchen counter lit from beneath the wall units
Location
Bandra West, Mumbai
Type
Kitchen
Configuration
Galley kitchen
Carpet area
320 sq ft
Finish level
Bespoke
On site
11 weeks
Completed
2025

The brief

A family that actually cooks — three meals a day, two cooks in the room at once, and a tiffin run every morning.

The hard part

A single window, a beam at 2.1 metres, and a plumbing stack that could not move more than 300mm.

What we did about it

  1. Split the run

    Wet work one side, dry and heat the other. It sounds obvious; the previous layout had the sink beside the hob.

  2. Dropped the ceiling only where the beam is

    A full false ceiling would have cost 200mm across the whole room. A local drop kept the rest at full height.

  3. Drawers, not shutters, below the counter

    More expensive per running foot, and the only decision nobody has questioned since.

Handleless kitchen cabinetry in white with a stone counter
Handleless below, open above
A bright minimal kitchen with a long uninterrupted counter
Eleven feet of uninterrupted run

Before and after

BeforeBefore — The builder-standard kitchen that came with the flat, before any of it came out
AfterAfter — The builder-standard kitchen that came with the flat, before any of it came out

Eleven feet by nine, cooking for six most nights.

Tell us about the flat.

A first conversation costs nothing and usually ends with a realistic number. If we are not right for the job we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Start a projectWhatsApp+91 99999 99999
Call the studioWhatsApp
Message the studio