From designed-in sustainability through to the latest style and colour trends, the wash zone remains a cornerstone of the modern kitchen with distinct sink and tap designs now front and centre.

This month, Paul Illingworth, Design Manager at Abode reveals the company’s latest innovations, which are new to the market and being used by homeowners to uplevel their kitchen in terms of water flow, food prep and space management.

The complete solution for today’s kitchen, Synchronist allows you to customise your sink arrangement to create a fully synchronised kitchen workstation. Able to streamline, simplify, and synchronise the kitchen wash zone, the collection of Synchronist Granite Sinks by Abode presents a range of reversible designs, sizes, finishes and install options with three complementary accessories: a roll-up Drainer Trivet, Stainless Steel Colander and Bamboo Chopping Board.

Designed to fit any standard size base unit, choose between a large or compact bowl size, which is made of high-quality granite and available in three contemporary finishes: Matt White, Black and Metallic Grey. Durable and hardwearing, Synchronist offers a sink with sleek profile, which is designed with 11mm softened square-edge bowl corners to deliver a premium look that is easy to clean.

Available with or without a fully recessed drainer, every model can be installed undermount or inset, and features an innovative slimline rinser with flush plate overflow so you can confidently fill it to the brim. Providing huge benefits in a compact space to pour away liquids while washing up, rinse or store a kitchen sponge, the slimline rinser gives you all the benefits of a traditional 1.5 bowl combination with a much smaller footprint and double the water capacity!

Synchronist Compact is the ideal sink solution when optimising space in the kitchen or utility room, and is designed to work in tandem with 450mm standard base units. In contrast, Synchronist Large is designed to fit any standard 600mm base unit and offers an impressive 28l capacity making it perfectly suited to large and open plan kitchen spaces. You can even position your kitchen taps behind the sink due to the absence of a tap deck and it’s fully reversible, meaning you can position the drainer on either the left or right.

As the trend for Scandinavian design continues to dominate the interiors market too, the kitchen is also placing new emphasis on using complementary products like the sink and taps, which create a more natural look and feel. The brand-new Pronteau Scandi-X instant hot water tap has been designed to emulate the same characteristics found in a Scandinavian home with three in-style finishes and real Beechwood lever handles. Now, customers can experience filtered cold and steaming hot water from a tap, which is designed in the same style as their Scandi home décor.

Designed with 4 IN 1 functionality (hot, cold, filtered cold and 75-98º steaming hot) Abode’s new Pronteau Scandi-X is the UK’s first Scandi-style instant hot water tap and features a distinct monobloc silhouette, real Beechwood handles, and three trend finishes – Matt White, Matt Black and Scandi Grey. 

Dubbed the fastest emerging tap colour inspired by the Scandinavian design trend, the Matt White Pronteau Scandi-X epitomises today’s kitchen, striking the right balance between form and function while being sensitive to the planet: from the FSC® certified handles through to reducing single use plastic in the home by having filtered water on tap.

In fact, the instant hot water tap is the fastest growing appliance today, now being installed in 40% of all new kitchens and for us, the wash zone is the latest area in the kitchen helping to satisfy the markets ongoing affinity for nature. Combinations of wood and metal will become your greatest natural resources for elevating the kitchen space as the premium market becomes more attuned to using natural materials within the built environment as many of us continue to seek great comfort and convenience from wood, marble and natural stone, metal and glass. 

The new Synchronist Granite Sink range and Pronteau Scandi-X instant hot water taps complement each other perfectly, so if you want to create a kitchen space which is stylish, safe and fully synchronised why not combine them both for the ultimate kitchen workstation.

For further info, please contact Abode: call 01226 283 434, email info@abodedesigns.co.uk, visit www.abodedesigns.co.uk, www.pronteau.co.uk