Potter Marion Graux had plenty of ideas to redo her Breton house. On the kitchen side, she trusted the MOREL brand, and the result proves her right!
Marion Graux’s journey is a quest for meaning that crosses cinema, fashion and photo styling. Through these worlds, she met women ceramists whose serenity and connection to reality had a profound impact on her. She confides: “I never stopped looking for the life I wanted to lead, rather than a specific job.” The obvious eventually became clear to her: the physical need to create and wear the apron took precedence over everything else. “I wanted this life”that of the workshop and the gesture.
Having become a potter, Marion Graux settled in Port-Louis, in Breton Morbihan, with her family. It is here that she has taken up residence with her tribe. Once through the door of their home, the construction site looked vast: “We came from afar”she remembers. On one side, there was a bedroom decorated with paneling halfway up the wall and, on the other, a small kitchen area, very pretty with Formica® furniture but not functional enough for the family. This is why Marion decided to remove all the partitions on the first level, including the one between these two rooms. The objective? Transform the kitchen into a through space, which overlooks both the port and the garden.
A specialist in beautifully crafted kitchens and fittings since 1932, MOREL was the right pick for this lover of pretty things. To satisfy her desires, she fell for Neufchâtel facades in a natural varnish finish. In terms of needs, he needed a huge work surface to be able to cook together but also to display a cooking range, found on Leboncoin. All in the country house spirit that is dear to him.
In this kitchen, there must have been plenty of storage space to organize all your dishes and even a vegetable library, capable of storing freshly purchased vegetables from the market. Finally, we fell in love with the open shelves as wall units to display all of the handmade pieces.
Result ? A long kitchen, like a gathering place, arranged in a fluid and neat space, which almost blends in with the adjoining living room. Bet accepted! Last but not least, in place of the old kitchen, she was able to create “a library to store all the bulk.”
She preferred a kitchen without an island in order to accommodate two large tables, which liven up the space, for cooking, entertaining or doing the children’s homework. “It’s really the kitchen we dreamed of!”she concludes with joy.
