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Hartley's baking kitchen in morning sun. A long marble bench dusted with flour, with dough rising in baskets, a rolling pin and brass scales, on duck-egg blue cabinets. A domed stone oven with a fire and a loaf on a peel, white tiles with a blue band, copper pans on a rail, an oak cabinet of proving dough and a cream stand mixer. Down the right, oak racks full of loaves and pastries against the tall shopfront glass, and a black and white tiled floor.

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Hartley's Bakery · baking kitchen

A serious home bakery with Victorian bones: a deck oven, a flour-dusted marble bench and racks of loaves you can see from the street.

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Hartley's Bakery · baking kitchen

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The notes

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Victorian bakery. North-east, about 5 × 8 m, a real baking kitchen behind the bronze front.

Palette: Duck-egg blue, White tile, Marble, Oak, Bronze.

materials

  • White glazed brick tiles with a duck-egg blue band
  • Black and white encaustic tiled floor
  • A long white marble pastry bench
  • Duck-egg blue painted cabinetry

furniture

  • A stone-floored deck oven for bread and a modern convection oven
  • A wooden proving cabinet and a dough mixer
  • Oak bread racks facing the shopfront window
  • A small counter with glass cake stands

lighting

  • Enamel pendant lights over the bench
  • Bright task light at the oven
  • Daylight from the shopfront

practical

  • The deck oven needs its own flue and extraction
  • Keep flour storage dry and away from the oven heat
  • A sink and hand basin close to the bench

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Photorealistic interior photograph of a small private Victorian-style baking kitchen inside a house. The room is genuinely compact, only about 5 metres wide and 8 metres deep, like a small village bakery: one marble bench, one oven, one rack wall, everything close together. White glazed brick tiles with a band of duck-egg blue, a black and white encaustic tiled floor, duck-egg blue painted cabinets. A single white marble pastry bench about 3 metres long, dusted with flour, dough rising in linen-lined baskets, a rolling pin and scales. A stone deck oven with a loaf on a wooden peel, a wooden proving cabinet and a dough mixer. Oak racks full of crusty loaves and pastries facing a tall shopfront window, and a small counter with glass cake stands. Enamel pendant lights, soft morning daylight, a little flour in the air. Style: high-end interior photography, warm and authentic. Avoid: commercial factory look, brand logos, people, text.

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Hartley's baking kitchen in morning sun. A long marble bench dusted with flour, with dough rising in baskets, a rolling pin and brass scales, on duck-egg blue cabinets. A domed stone oven with a fire and a loaf on a peel, white tiles with a blue band, copper pans on a rail, an oak cabinet of proving dough and a cream stand mixer. Down the right, oak racks full of loaves and pastries against the tall shopfront glass, and a black and white tiled floor.
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