Interior designer Sanna Piitulainen chose Dekton Rem for her new kitchen

Sanna Piitulainen and her family have just built their third house. The family’s new house is located in Porvoo and was designed completely around a pleasant and functional kitchen. Piitulainen started working on the floor plan of the house at an early stage. She wanted the kitchen and utility room to be located next to each other and also for the kitchen to be close to the vestibule, minimising the distance required for carrying grocery bags. “Some of my other wishes for this kitchen were also fulfilled,” Piitulainen says. 

“The sink is installed under the worktop. Our old house had its kitchen sink installed over the worktop and it was a constant nuisance. The worktop requires constant wiping and the smooth edge of the sink is conveniently easy to sweep clean and dry. Lapetek’s matte black sink was initially sent to stone producer Ylämaan Graniitti so that it was already attached to the worktop prior to installation. The joint is very clean and finished,” Piitulainen observes.  

Piitulainen’s wish list for her home also included a peninsula with no extra functions and a large continuous surface, enabling it to be used as a practical serving table for parties. The peninsula worktop is used for virtually all everyday kitchen tasks from cooking to baking and arts and crafts. The worktop material runs from the worktop to a backsplash that catches most of the splatters near the sink.  

The cabinet includes a separate space, a so-called breakfast nook for a coffee maker. This space has Dekton on its back wall. This back wall was made of three separate parts, avoiding the need to drill holes for fixing the shelves. All the parts were cut from one larger piece, enabling the pattern to run continuously. As the thin back wall material is only 12 mm thick, support beams were added behind it to fill a gap between the cabinet frame and the wall.