Credit: Shutterstock / Jennifer Bui/Thrillist An article on HuffPost REALLY made me laugh this morning. Apparently "Couples that are happy talking about Poop are the happiest couples". Yes folks, that's poop, like the stuff small poodles do. It makes for a "more relaxed, more intimate, more hilarious union". Having spent 18 months living on the... Continue Reading →
Roadtrip: Dresser Mouldings
You all know me by now right, there's nothing I love better than the smell of timber, a busy work bench and stuff being made. Everything summed up in the image above really, taken up at a fantastic manufacturer company called Dresser Mouldings which we visited this month in Lancashire. They'd been recommended to me by a small... Continue Reading →
Kitchen Trends 2016: Mixing Different Depth Worktops
OK kitchen kids, here's your 2016 starter for ten: Which depth of kitchen work surface should you be specifying to make your block the coolest on the block? This is a rather important question when designing a kitchen and as you can see from my opening image, when we're talking worktops, we really are talking... Continue Reading →
Design Inspiration: Innovations in Fabrications
You know the rules right? Wood + Water = Bad News, meaning design-wise things have always been somewhat limited in the world of kitchens & bathrooms, unless money was no object of course. Which isn't the case for most of us. In bathrooms, slow growing dense woods like teak or cedar are much more resistant... Continue Reading →
Small Is Glossy & Beautiful In Rudi’s Kitchen Redesign
Here's the second of the kitchen makeovers I filmed with Magnet, visiting the homes of three amazingly lucky winners of fully fitted kitchens! Rudi's South London first floor apartment had a very small 9msq kitchen, cluttered with poor storage, little worktop area and an old fifties fireplace taking up one wall. Rudi hated his slightly twee... Continue Reading →
How To: Family Kitchen Knock Through & Redesign
As a woman living in a renovation with no amenities, can you even imagine being asked to film with the three lucky winners of brand new, amazing luxury kitchens?! I resolved therefore to reign in my envy and view it as an opportunity for inspiration, which the days filming with Susan, Rudi and Norma certainly were.... Continue Reading →
Recipe: The Best Microwaved Scrambled Eggs
For the first year of being hobless I was loathe to over-use the microwave, ever mindful of the urban myth that the man who invented it refused to have one in his house. Nuking your food all day everyday surely can't be the secret to a long life so I'm careful not to rely on... Continue Reading →