June 3, 2025By Linda Parker

The trend for outdoor kitchens continues unabated, with layouts getting more elaborate and comfortable. It’s not just about the cooking equipment it’s now about the adjoining seating area, the drinks chillers, the serving spaces and overhead canopies or shades as well. Here’s some impressive concepts for your inspired outdoor kitchen ideas…

May 19, 2025By Linda Parker

This striking conversion was once a commercial chicken shed, and has been transformed into a single storey contemporary barn with dark cladding. Jay Powell, Design Project Manager, Inglis Hall, gives us some of the background on this remarkable kitchen project…

May 12, 2025By Linda Parker

Providing superb storage is one of the requirements that every kitchen designer has to address to be able to present perfect plan for a new kitchen space. Here we’re bringing you some thoughtful observations as well as other new ideas for stylish kitchens…

April 23, 2025By Linda Parker

The Barn in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire is the new flagship showroom for Olive & Barr, British makers of handmade Shaker kitchens. It’s beautifully positioned within a 6,500 sq ft Grade II Listed Jacobean barn, in the Kyre Park privately owned estate. Founder Al Bruce talks us through the story of this splendid new showroom…

April 9, 2025By Linda Parker

Wood (or wood-look) flooring is a reliable and practical choice for a new kitchen project. Choose carefully and install it correctly and it can be suitable for kitchens through to dining rooms, family spaces and even bathrooms…

March 12, 2025By Linda Parker

A couple with a young family wanted to make the most of the space in their new rear extension, which included major structural renovations. They wanted a new kitchen and thought it would be just a simple extension and adding a kitchen…