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; […]
There are many things in my life that I am happy for; good health, a decent job, good family and great friends! When it comes to the kitchen I was never quite so happy. A dodgy microwave, a toaster that broke on me and a washing machine that has just done likewise. The cooking and […]
One of the first things people consider when buying a house, or indeed planning to build their own, is the Kitchen. People will tell you a lot of different things about the perfect kitchen though; but the truth is there’s no such thing. The perfect kitchen is something unique to everyone; but there’s always a […]
Making your own toasted sandwich is a great treat, but to be able to do it you need to have a sandwich toaster. If you look at the breville sandwich toaster, you’ll see a typical model. What they do is they take a ready made sandwich and toast it to heat up the ingredients, giving […]
A lot of people eat and enjoy bread, but one step further is making your own bread. You can do this with a kneading your own dough, and then making the loaf which is then placed within the oven, but the process can be greatly simplified by using a bread maker. A bread maker is […]