The home - and particularly the kitchen is the focus of many factors affecting our lives and with recent recessionary chaos and insecurity, sometimes our kitchen and living spaces are the only places for refuge and comfort!  Whether planning a complete kitchen refit, or just buying new...

Cooking and eating are an essential part of human interaction, family and social life. The kitchen is the focal point of any family home and for me brings back warm memories of childhood. Comforting smells wafting from the stove, early baking experiences, licking cake mixture off a wooden...

I used to think a garlic crusher was an essential part of my kitchen utensils, until it broke a couple of years back. Even though I kept meaning to buy a new one, I made do with dicing the garlic cloves with a knife. I realised then, that, because this did the job just as well, I didn’t need...

1. It's a small kitchen and we've combined it with a new living room. So we wanted to hide all the rubbish away behind cupboard doors. And the thing I like about our cupboard doors is the new range of Formica we've used. My wife chose the colour - it's like a non-vintage champagne -, and the...

The kitchen is the hub of the home and the focus of family activity or lifestyle entertaining. They are now stylish ‘living’ rooms at the very heart of any home.A well designed, well equipped and well accessorized kitchen will provide a great sense of pride and provide a focal for the...

MicroRave.My first recollections of the Microwave oven date to the late 70’s when the rather well-off family up the road had this enormous device built in the style of an American station wagon (complete with faux teak wood panels & large chrome clutch handle), the only other detail I...

Your dining table is the focus of all your activity in the kitchen, therefore getting the best out of your dining experience here should be top of your priority list!Getting right tableware for your needs and aspirations is an essential element in hosting memorable dinner parties and for everyday...

I read this rather bad article recently where one of the 'big' interiors magazine interviewed two well known interior designers and an equally well respected lighting designer.The banality of the questions was matched only by the triviality of the answers - what should you think about when lighting...

Measure for Pleasure.I am currently in the throws of equipping my narrow galley bachelor kitchen with the essentials tools for making a cracking good munch. I dragged my dear Cyster around the pre-crimbo scrum in the kitchenware department at Selfridges last Saturday, the mission: measuring spoons....

Modern kitchens have changed.They were once always at the back of the house but they are certainly not in the background now. The kitchen is the hub of the home and the focus of family activity or lifestyle entertaining. They are now stylish, open, well lit ‘living’ rooms -when space...