The finish schedule was locked before the layout was. Grey handleless fronts through the working kitchen, an engineered stone top in a marble effect, grey stone tile to the walls, and one island dressed properly because the dining room can see it. Finishes in a Dhaka kitchen earn their place on how they clean, not on how they photograph. Grease films every surface within a month of handover, and the difference between a front you wipe and a front you scrub comes down to sheen level and edge detail. The room is really two rooms working together, an open island facing the dining table and a working galley behind it, and the sections below follow the order the whole thing was specified in, material by material.
Board and Front: The Grey Handleless Carcass
Carcasses are moisture resistant board with sealed edges on every cut, including the ones nobody sees behind the plinth. Fronts are a matt grey with no handle at all, opening on a routed finger pull along the top edge, which in a galley this width means there is nothing to catch a sleeve or a dupatta on while carrying a hot pan.
The working run is L shaped and unbroken, and the appliance fronts are set flush into it so the elevation reads as one plane from wall to wall. Tall units are banked at the far end rather than spread along the length, which keeps the counter continuous instead of interrupted every couple of metres by a full height door. Our modular kitchen design service begins with a board schedule for exactly this reason, since a carcass chosen badly fails four years before the doors do.
Stone: The Waterfall Island and the Working Tops
The island top is marble taken as a waterfall, which means the slab turns down at both ends and runs to the floor rather than stopping at the counter line. The corners are mitred so the vein carries over the turn without a visible joint, which costs more to fabricate and is worth it on a piece this exposed. It is the surface that appears in almost every wide shot on the 3,000 sq ft Basabo apartment project.
The working tops are engineered stone rather than natural marble, a deliberate downgrade in prestige and upgrade in behaviour, because turmeric, lime and hot oil mark real marble permanently and no sealer sold in Dhaka changes that. The walls behind the working run are grey stone tile in a large format, laid with the tightest grout joint the tile allows, so the splashback wipes down in one pass instead of needing a brush along every line.
Metal: The Chimney Hood, Finger Pulls and Gold Handles
A black chimney hood sits over the gas hob, ducted out through the external wall rather than recirculated, because a filter alone cannot cope with the volume of frying this kitchen does. A black side by side refrigerator shares the run with a compact freezer, and a stainless unit stands at the sink end, all three faced so their fronts land on the same plane as the cabinet doors. The freezer is the second cold appliance on purpose, since a household that shops fish and meat weekly needs more frozen volume than a single fridge provides. Brushed gold handles are used only on the folding door frames, and the same brushed gold reappears on the wardrobe handles in the modern girls bedroom design in Basabo, which keeps one metal language running through the flat.
Glass: Dark Uppers and Frosted Folding Doors
The upper cabinets above the island are dark glass, chosen to recede into shadow instead of announcing themselves the way white doors would at that height. Their frames are slim aluminium in a dark anodised finish and the glass sits in a rebate rather than behind a pinned bead, so there is no lip along the front for grease to gather in.
Between the island and the working galley, frosted glass folding doors do the real work. Closed, they hold smell and noise on the cooking side while heavy dinner is being made. Open, the two zones become one room and the island becomes a serving counter for the table beyond. Smoked glass does a related job in the modern boys bedroom design in Basabo, blurring a wardrobe interior into a suggestion rather than an inventory.
Light and Colour: Bell Pendants and One Teal Canvas
Bell shaped pendants hang in a row above the island, dropped low enough to put light on the counter and high enough to leave the sightline across it open. Under cabinet strip lighting runs the full length of the working counter so no one chops in their own shadow. Washing up happens under the window, the best position any Dhaka kitchen has to offer, since it puts daylight on the basin and gives whoever is standing there something to look at. One flank of the island is left open as shelving for everyday glassware, and a single teal canvas on the wall beside it is the only strong colour anywhere in the kitchen. Decorative and task circuits are kept apart here in the same way they are in the luxury master bedroom design in Basabo.
Hinge Grade, Edge Banding and Board Thickness
Three things get signed off before a single panel is cut. Hinge grade and drawer runner rating, because these are the parts that fail first and the parts nobody asks about when comparing quotes. Edge banding thickness on every exposed and unexposed edge, because water reaches a raw edge eventually. Board thickness for shelves against their span, because a shelf that sags is a shelf that was specified by eye.
Hob position relative to the window and the duct route are settled on site with the fabricator present, not later, since a duct forced to dodge a beam after the units are hung ends up boxed in below the ceiling where everyone can see it. Anyone weighing up studios will find that the same discipline shows across our home interior design in Dhaka portfolio, room type by room type. Colour comes last in our process, which surprises most clients.
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