I love stuff! Then again I have always been a bit of a hoarder. The kitchen I have has just enough, though. Coffee machine? Check. Fridge and freezer? Bingo. But there’s a lot of things that I do not want clogging up the areas in my kitchen. A clothes horse? No thank you. What about a […]
I stayed at a friend’s last Friday and Saturday nights with a bunch of other friends and friends of friends who had all descended on this poor Wimbledon home with a view to getting drunk quickly, eating a load and making an enormous racket and mess. We accomplished all of those goals with, as you […]
A 3 cup cafetiere is probably one of the most enduring piece of utensil in the British kitchen. They have been used by countless generations to serve coffee and are intricately woven into the British culture and psyche. The passage of time has brought with it a wide array of utensils from which one can […]
It is a sad indictment of marriage and couples that I say I am “lucky” to not have to share a kitchen with a significant other. I have friends who do, and friends who struggle to make best use of that shared, common space with another person for long periods of time. When two independent […]
This article will be a little more specifically about home design than my normal kitchen design focus, but that is not an accident. I want to talk about one very interesting aspect of design that has a big weighting on the design, layout and use of your kitchen. That aspect is open plan design. What […]
“The kitchen?!” I hear you cry, “The kitchen is a place for cooking, for preparing food, certainly not for eating it you kitchen design heathen!” “We have dining rooms for that,” pipes up one dissenter at the back, “I sit in front of my television to eat” says another. All of these people might be […]
A lot of the time when I discuss kitchen designs I take a little too much for granted. I assume that you all have enormous amounts of space available, or a huge budget, or access to world class designers and architects. The truth is barely anyone has access to any of that. I stayed with […]
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 […]