James Rayner, commercial director at cooker hood manufacturer Westin, reveals the advantages that the company's bespoke service can offer kitchen designers.
When it comes to creating the perfect kitchen, every detail matters. The aesthetics, functionality, and quality of appliances all play a role in ensuring that a kitchen is both practical and beautiful. One area where customisation can truly enhance the cooking experience is with the cooker hood, and Westin is at the forefront of providing an exceptional bespoke service for this essential kitchen appliance.
Our bespoke service offers a tailored approach to creating the perfect cooker hood that aligns with a kitchen's design, a clients personal taste, and practical needs. Whether designing a modern, minimalist kitchen or a more traditional one, we can provide options to suit every style.
Cooker hoods are more than just functional pieces of kitchen equipment; they are often focal points in the room. A well-designed cooker hood not only serves to remove smoke, steam, and odours during cooking, but it also adds to the overall ambiance of a kitchen. A bespoke cooker hood allows the designer to create a truly unique piece that complements the design of a space, offering a solution that’s as stylish as it is functional.
The bespoke service provided at Westin covers every conceivable aspect of a cooker hood, giving a kitchen designer the ability to really flex their creative muscles. Everything is customisable – style, dimensions, power level, lighting and finish.
A huge majority of the bespoke work Westin undertakes is a challenge in one form or another, but that is exactly the way we like it. The way that we work means that we are much closer to the intricacies of a project rather than just processing an order and shipping a box. We tend to be involved with advice and planning at the earliest possible stage so we get to be hands-on with some truly incredible projects and see the process through right from concept to completion, which is hugely satisfying, especially with the really bold statement hoods.
Over the years we have manufactured some truly incredible hoods but we are well aware that our hoods are just a small part of a beautiful kitchen design, and we are only able to do what we do because of a designer’s flair, vision and creativity, and the client buying into this to produce some of the incredible bespoke products we manufacture.
Bespoke is how we started out offering Westin hoods, and although products have evolved to include a comprehensive standard range over the years, bespoke still forms a vital part of the offering. All of our standard collection of hoods were born out of bespoke requests, and the service proves especially useful in picking up design and colour trends early.
