Lighting your kitchen is often one of the most overlooked aspects of kitchen design. Rubbish lighting can make your kitchen look like a steaming pile of manure; and no one wants that from a kitchen. Instead by choosing your lighting carefully you can transform even the most mundane kitchen into one that makes women swoon […]

We all love a bit of do it yourself. Be honest; we all throwing on the overalls, grabbing our crunchy paintbrushes and dusting off our cans of paint before boldly going into our rooms and trying to apply a little bit of TLC to our ailing homes. There comes a point, though, when we need […]

I have never seen a carpeted kitchen. I have heard of such things; people tell tales about soft floored kitchens around the world, places where people can walk around bare foot, or go for a midnight snack, without fear of having the freezing grasp of the tiled floor waking them from their late night slumber […]

One of my final tips for updating your kitchen’s look on a budget is painting it. Yes, that’s right; painting it. I know it is the oldest solution in the book; but for the cost conscious designer, or someone on a shoe string budget who is tired of staring at the same old kitchen walls, […]

We have all seen them; you see them in films, you see them on television shows and you definitely have seen them in adverts. Automatic lights. They seemed so futuristic; people would come into their homes, into their kitchens, and one of two things would happen. The first is that the character would clap their […]

A lot of people spend a lot of time and money presenting the look of their kitchen to family and friends. The floors, the windows, the walls, the paintings, the colours and the fittings all have to be a certain way, to have a certain look, to impress. One area of kitchen design that is […]

We’ve all been there; you wake up in the morning and you’ve got no bread. Nothing. Not one single slice for your toast. You open the fridge. Nothing. You open the freezer and there, hidden under the chips, is a packet of crumpets. Lonely, never used but now is the time for them to shine. […]

The Americans come under a lot of stick from all quarters of the world for various stupid things they do or invent. The idea of supersizing is ridiculed world wide as people criticise the expanding waistlines of the American population. “Bigger is better” is a phrase often associated with The States, but of the course […]

There’s one thing above all others that really grinds my gears in the kitchen. Is it my useless, broken dishwasher? No. What about my microwave with a dodgy spinning tray? Not even close. The one thing that rubs me the wrong way is waiting for the tap to get hot. It’s annoying on every level; […]