Trends

Curved Kitchen – Designed by Roundhouse

Curved Kitchen 2 - Designed by Roundhouse

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The story: This former 17th century barn was built on a hillside location in Herefordshire with fabulous views. It’s now an open plan conversion, part of a wider restoration and rebuild project by architect Alex Coppock of communion design. The owners are a busy couple that wanted to fulfill their desire of living in the countryside, whilst still working in London. They chose Roundhouse, the multi-award winning British design and manufacturing company to create their bespoke kitchen. Kitchens are from £35,000.

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Shaker Kitchen – Designed by Harvey Jones

Shaker Kitchen Picture 2 - Designed by Harvey Jones

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The story: Located in a three-storey Victorian townhouse in London, this kitchen from Harvey Jones incorporates individual touches such as tiled appliance housings, octagonal painted shapes on the wooden floor and herringbone tongue-and-groove detailing on the pitched ceiling. The kitchen was a complete rebuild of the ground floor with a glass roof and cabinetry handcrafted from American hardwood then painted in Farrow & Ball’s Strong White…

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Cheatin’ Christmas… Don’t panic!

Tesco Christmas Pudding Cheese Bombe

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If you’re reading about Christmas now, it’s a bit too late to start making home-made Christmas puddings and cakes. So … unless you are one of the ultra-organised home chefs who have already marinated their dates, frozen the home-made bread sauce and laid down a few bottles of home-made sloe gin or raspberry vodka you will be going to do the last-minute run to the supermarket on the 23rd Dec like the rest of us…

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Kitchen Trends for 2015… A Preview

Crown Imperial’s new ultra matt Rococo collection

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The start of the New Year means a raft of fantastic new kitchen designs coming onto the market and we have a sneak preview of what’s going to be big in 2015…

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Christmas is coming…

Tesco hand decorated two-tier holly cake £20

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For writers and reviewers, Christmas starts in July, with a host of events to launch the festive season’s goodies. As always with seasonal celebrations, there’s a danger of peaking too soon and getting far too fed up with all the Christmas razzamatazz before the day itself even happens…

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Survey reveals the kitchen is a hot spot for heated conversations but not for family dining

Mobalpa Melia White matt varnished

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Leading French kitchen manufacturer Mobalpa has launched The Mobalpa Diaries, which offers a unique insight for consumers who are looking to purchase a new kitchen. Their survey into the way we use our kitchens makes for interesting reading…

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