Kitchen Update

Magazines – and the popular belief – will tell you that design is all about beautiful things; beauty lies in great design and beauty lies in form and function. Whether designing for a new home or updating your current kitchen, this thinking is especially true, as the form needs to be functional.

Generally considered the heart of a home, it’s a place for us to catch up with friends, cook the evening meal, hold parties and enjoy family time. Innovative ideas, great attention to detail or bespoke design solutions can transform your kitchen and it’s the details that make the difference. Colourful splashbacks, painted walls, customised cabinets or colourful accessories are all ways to bring the heart of the home back to life.

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Work surface

The worktop surface is a big part of your kitchen design and with so many choices available these days, different materials can create different looks in your kitchen. Using a solid surface as your worktop enables any scratches to be sanded out, can create a seamless look in your kitchen, is stain resistant and can be made to your specifications. While these are some of the main materials used for kitchen worktops, please take a look at our selection... view search

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Children in the kitchen

Our children absolutely love to role play, we do all we can to encourage them. Children love to step in and out of different worlds and situations. Role play with play kitchens also teaches basic maths and numeracy skills and as they use the different food, utensils and gadgets, they’ll even learn new words, shapes and colours. Play kitchens and food toys are also great tools to start young children thinking about healthy eating and nutrition…and it’s something that the whole family can enjoy together... view search

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21st Century Cotswolds

Building their own home allowed the Wild family the best of both worlds – a traditional farmhouse façade and hi-tech glamour within. “Plots in the Cotswolds are like hen’s teeth,” says interiors and silverware designer J.B. Wild. “But we’d had a tip-off that this one was coming up for auction: 130 acres of fantastic land, with beautiful hedges and all well maintained. It had been in the same family for 90 years and we were lucky enough to get it,” she exclaims, still delighted at this piece of good fortune. Just a stone’s throw from Bourton-on-the Water, a village voted one of England’s prettiest, J.B., her husband, Chris, and their three children had nabbed themselves an idyllic spot – and one on which their dream to build their own home could be realised... view feature

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Parisienne Loft

The owners of this loft are both architects who work well together as well as separately. A year of renovation work enabled them to transform this former workshop: the vast basement became their offices and they kept the ground floor for their living space. They retained the original outside structure, a long street facade with full height windows, so typical of industrial premises. "This work is more interesting because it required more thought from us!" “From these 80 m2, we feel we tried to get the best solution.... a smaller space forces you to find creative storage tricks.” They also wanted to keep a certain purity of lines, and cleverly incorporated large cupboards into walls, as well as in the metal staircase. The kitchen is also finely worked and to save space, the architects decided to create a mezzanine level. With distinct areas for night and day, it is an easy-to-live in Parisienne loft.. view feature

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A House Full of Life

At the grand old 1800-century farmhouse in Espergærde, Cornelia lives with her husband Donald and their five children. The property has been renovated from floor to beam, but despite its brightened interior and new fittings, it still holds onto its historical charm through its original frame work. This clean and bright approach is even true of the bathroom, which has been decorated in a crisp monochromatic style. Not only does the home offer ample space for the large family; it even hosts both parents' businesses. Cornelia runs Casa Cornelia, a residential interiors shop from one of the wings, whilst Donald runs his business AB Horizon from his office on the second floor... view feature

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Chocolate Orange

Stunning cocoa and tangerine cabinetry in a smart glossy finish ensures the Clarke’s large kitchen-diner is a truly delicious design. For most people, the process of finding a home is nothing short of a quest for perfection. But then Viki Clarke, a graphic designer with a keen eye for style, isn’t like most people. ‘I wanted a project I could get my teeth into,’ she says. So when a neglected period terrace came up for sale in south-west London Viki couldn’t wait to take her husband Mike along for a look... view feature

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Three Chords and the Truth

This phrase, coined as it was by a country musician, and later appropriated by the punk-scene is anything but the equivalent of simplicity as many take it to mean. On the contrary, it requires hard work, the ability to improvise, historical knowledge, and a whole bunch of will-power. It just looks and sounds simple. Like a good architect’s work. Walking from cabin to cabin between the rock-formations, and from room to room, it dawns on us that what the owners have created here isn’t just an updated version of the “summer-cabin”, but an alternate cabin-universe altogether.. view feature

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Modern Classic

This classical architect works for one of the country's rare classical practices, Robert Adam, and although he admits to a desire to one day build his own home, for now he's content with what he has - this charming, three storey house in a leafy Winchester street. Built in the late 1800s, it's part of an attractive row of four pairs of externally identical properties. "The peace and solitude evaporates when my two boys come to stay," he explains. "Otherwise the house is extremely peaceful and condusive to work." The owner has done little to change the house's original layout, save for moving the kitchen from a small back room to a bigger location on the ground floor, which has been knocked through to embrace an open plan dining room. The basement houses a sitting room and guest quarters, and upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bathroom. But it's the kitchen and it's adjacent dining room in which the architect spends nearly all of his free time, mostly drawing... view feature

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