Help! Kitchen style in open plan room

[Littlepicklehead]

We are hopefully getting an extension which will mean we have an open plan kitchen/living room opening on to the garden. The living room area will be a square room with a chimney breast and cast iron fireplace, and I'd like to have alcove cupboards and floating shelves. So it will be quite traditional looking (it is a Victorian house).

This leads on to the kitchen. As this will be where the light it coming from into the room (bifold doors and skylight) I've been looking at handless white gloss units with white quartz worktops and a glass splash back to ensure lots of light can bounce into the room. The room is semi divided by a peninsula, but now I'm worried that the kitchen is too modern looking and will look odd next to the more traditional style of the living area.

Does anyone else have a similar set up and what would you do? Google images hasn't really yielded anything that's quite right

Well, I think it's fine to have different styles in the kitchen part and living room part. But I'd try to have some sort of echo of the living area at the kitchen side - one of the cabinets, tiles or worktops could be a bit "softer" looking to tie it all together.

You need a good few hours on Houzz!

Sounds just like mine but we are not finished yet! We are also in a Victorian house and are having alcove units, bifolds, skylights and peninsular! I had a free style consultation at John lewis which was very helpful. I settled on vanilla shaker style cupboards, ivory fantasy granite, grey bifolds and windows, grey sofas and feature wallpaper which I hope brings everything together....

Ooh sounds lovely marmite! I'm thinking of going for a warm grey colour scheme, prob f&b and maybe using a darker colour paint that matches he scheme behind the glass splash back to tie it together.

What are you having at the back of your peninsula? This is the bit I can't imagine. We're not having a breakfast bar as I don't really want it to intrude into the living space.

I wonder if we plastered and painted the back of the peninsula to match the living room, as a kind of semi wall, would that work? Or look weird?

I know we probably need a kitchen consultation!

We are having a breakfast bar as think there is room. Friends have plastered the back of their peninsular and it has a low wall that comes about 15cm above the work surface, behind this they have a church pew which looks amazing.

We are also planning fused glass splash back which will hopefully bring in the colours from the wallpaper too!

My John lewis consultation was with the soft furnishings team rather than kitchen and they found me some lovely wallpaper and fabrics for blinds and cushions. Should be finished in about a month - cant wait as haven't had kitchen now for 12 weeks!

We're in a 1930s semi and are in the process of doing something similar, but not the bi-fold doors etc (very jealous). We have gone slightly more modern too in the living area with quite a bold wallpaper, but we have settled on a white handleless kitchen which we're having wrapped (you know surrounded on top / bottom/ edges of the cupboard runs in dark brown panels) but in a matt finish instead of gloss. I think this tones down the ultra modern look a little. We are mixing the worktops (mostly for budget reasons) but having bamboo (effect) worktops on the L shaped kitchen and white quartz hopefully on the island unit. I have quite a contemporary light above the island unit (it sounds a right mish mash of styles doesn't it!) but am hoping overall, it will look modern but not too ultra slick if you see what I mean.