How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design

How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design

If you've followed my blog for a few years, you'll know that one of the biggest renovation projects we tackled was our kitchen. Ripping out the entire back of our house, adding a small extension, moving one wall and entirely removing another, adding a large skylight...

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Pretty Utility: New Bits for the New Kitchen

Pretty Utility: New Bits for the New Kitchen

As you are probably already aware, we are just at the very tail end of a rather large renovation project that has taken most of the year - knocking down walls, adding a small extension and creating a brand new open-plan kitchen-diner. It's been a hell of a journey and...

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Designing My Dream Kitchen with John Lewis of Hungerford

Designing My Dream Kitchen with John Lewis of Hungerford

I debated whether to share the design of our kitchen on the blog. I didn't want to ruin any 'surprises' for when it's finally installed but at the same time, I do love reading about other people's journeys in creating spaces they love. So, after doing a poll on...

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How I’m Making Do With an Ugly Kitchen (For Now)

How I’m Making Do With an Ugly Kitchen (For Now)

So I asked the other day on Instagram what you'd like to see next on the blog - our plans for the garden or my ugly kitchen. And, funny enough, the majority chose my ugly kitchen in the poll. We are always told as bloggers that people want to see beautiful,...

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Kitchen Design Planning: What’s Inspiring Me Right Now

Kitchen Design Planning: What’s Inspiring Me Right Now

At some point in the next few months, Wayne and I will be taking on our biggest project to date. For those waiting on news, nope, we haven't moved yet. We've had some major delays over the last couple of weeks and I can't pretend it hasn't been excruciatingly...

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One Year On: How Our Minerva Worktops Are Holding Up

One Year On: How Our Minerva Worktops Are Holding Up

It's been almost exactly a year since we revealed our new kitchen. And I think for the last year, I receive an email at least once a week* from someone contemplating Minerva worktops, asking me how mine are holding up, whether I'd recommend them, if they've been at...

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7 Ideas to Make the Most of a Small Kitchen

7 Ideas to Make the Most of a Small Kitchen

I sometimes marvel at the size of the kitchens I see in blogs and magazines. Huge expansive spaces with built-in banquet seating, an island overlooking a dining area, spaces for a chair and a laptop, miles of worktop and huge American style fridge freezers - Oh, how a...

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Kitchen Remodel – All the Sources!

Kitchen Remodel – All the Sources!

So as promised, I thought I'd do a quick post sharing as much as I possibly can in terms of where I purchased all the things for our kitchen remodel! As you know, we didn't start from scratch and simply worked with what we had so not everything will be currently...

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My new Black Appliances From AO.com

My new Black Appliances From AO.com

First, I just wanted to say how overwhelmed I was by the response on the kitchen remodel post! I'm so pleased so many of you seemed to like it and thank you all for the lovely comments!! If you haven't seen it yet, you can check that out here. I wanted to share a...

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The REVEAL of our Black White and Gold Kitchen

The REVEAL of our Black White and Gold Kitchen

I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to share our kitchen reveal with you today. We have essentially been working on our kitchen on and off for 6 years and until, well, about a week or so ago, it's never truly been finished. The reasons for this are as long...

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Pretty Utility: (More) New Bits for the Kitchen

Pretty Utility: (More) New Bits for the Kitchen

Today was meant to be the BIG KITCHEN REVEAL. You have no idea how disappointed I am that I can't quite do that today. The kitchen, for all intents and purposes, is finally complete - RAH! However, there is one missing piece to the puzzle. The cooker hood we wanted...

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Affordable Art: Desenio Art Prints

Affordable Art: Desenio Art Prints

Choosing art for your home can be a bit of a minefield, especially if you don't have a huge budget to spend on original pieces. Of course, as someone who is passionate about interior design, I'll tell you to buy what you love and if you can support an artist in the...

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Painting our Kitchen Cupboards Black

Painting our Kitchen Cupboards Black

I know I'm well overdue for an update on the kitchen and I can't tell you how many people have asked when the reveal will be! I know, I'm impatient too. Wayne has been working on the cupboard doors and upstands in fits and starts simply due to the fact he has to take...

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How to Join Minerva Acrylic Worktops

How to Join Minerva Acrylic Worktops

So the last you saw the kitchen, we had happily completed all the cutting we needed to do on the Carrara marble effect acrylic worktops from Minerva. Wayne did an awesome job of cutting out the sink and installing the tap as well (so screw you, Craig!) so all that was...

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Pretty Utility: New Bits for the Kitchen!

Pretty Utility: New Bits for the Kitchen!

So I was hoping to share the final worktops this week on the blog but alas, we didn't get quite as far on them as we'd hoped. All the pieces are now cut to size and sort of just 'resting' on the cupboards but we still need to do all the joining work so that'll be next...

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Installing Minerva Worktops (and gold sinks!)

Installing Minerva Worktops (and gold sinks!)

Now, you may recall from my last post on the kitchen that things hadn't been going so well on the kitchen worktops. My installer had flaked on me and we'd decided to just attempt to do the work ourselves. As we'd never fitted a worktop before, never mind an acrylic...

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My Minerva Worktops (And The Story So Far…)

My Minerva Worktops (And The Story So Far…)

**UPDATE!** Click here to see the worktops installed / Click here for how we finished the joins / Click here for the finished kitchen / Click here for how our worktops are holding up one year on So I promised an update on the kitchen this week and whilst it's not as...

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Nailing Down Plans for the Kitchen

Nailing Down Plans for the Kitchen

Aside from some shiny new accessories and a little DIY, I haven't really talked much about the kitchen recently despite it being on my 'hit list' for the year. The last time I really talked about my plans was in September when I was in two minds about going with a...

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