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A High Spec Kitchen for High Tech Clients
For the past year or so, Richard & Jill Bushnell have been renovating their detached family home in Buckinghamshire, but when it came to the kitchen design they looked to Designer Toby Patch to bring their exacting vision to life. Both extremely busy professionals working at the forefront of ...read more
Working with the experts, lighting by John Cullen
When BarrJoinery, alongside BarrKitchens, set about deciding on the lighting scheme for our Decorex set this year, working with John Cullen seemed the only choice. With over 35 years of experience and a unique portfolio, where they continually show how lighting can elevate a space from a Garden at ...read more
Classic Cabinetry combined with Salvaged Vintage Fixtures… Pug not included.
When fortunate enough to work in a period property with traditional features throughout classic kitchen cabinetry is an obvious choice. In this case the client had some fabulous vintage pieces to work with and a very clear idea of her ultimate kitchen aesthetic. With colour schemes, lighting, ...read more
Outbuildings: An Alternative Solution for Your Kitchen / Entertaining space.
Do you have an outbuilding, barn or garage within striking distance of your property? We are seeing more and more clients looking to extend their living space by linking existing buildings. Our clients, in a beautiful Oxfordshire village location, had a wealth of outbuildings to utilise. The old ...read more
A Dystopian future with enviable kitchens - The Handmaids Tale set design
We don’t know about you but at 9 pm every Sunday for the past 10 weeks we have been glued to our televisions watching the fate of our favourite handmaid unravel in the shocking, terrifying and often bleak dystopian of Gilead, as dreamed up by the brilliant Margaret Atwood. While most of the ...read more
The transformative power of good design
To see the before photographs of this property it is almost unrecognisable in its new carnation as an expansive bright and rather impressive kitchen dining space. We spoke to architect Andrew Veness from HollandGreen Architects about how he went about transforming the space and what the client was ...read more
Kitchens & Design at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
This week the Royal Hospital Chelsea is host to the annual Chelsea Flower Show; the most prestigious flower show in Britain that has been going since 1913. At this years event there is no shortage of inspiration coming from a wealth of industries, not least the fields of kitchen and design which we ...read more
Adaptable Living – a kitchen space designed for a growing family
Every lifestyle brings its own demands of a kitchen – the engine room of most homes. A busy family life is a case in point. What to cook? Where to store the army sized rations? Quick ways to prep and tackling the often monumental clear down …and all of this in an environment which is ...read more
Celebrating the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi
The ancient Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi focuses on accepting the imperfect and transient nature of life. When this belief is applied to an interior space it can be summerised in the way in which you can turn something imperfect, impermanent or incomplete into something valuable and beautiful. ...read more
Design Dilemmas; Minimalism vs. Maximalism
Explored many times as an ongoing debate between top designers, do you believe less is more, or more is more? We have explored a couple of popular kitchens as featured on some of our favourite blogs to showcase these two iconic styles of interior design. Fighting the minimalist corner is this ...read more
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