August 27, 2014By Richard Eastwood

This 1930’s semi-detached home provided the basis of a long over due update to the family kitchen. The current kitchen had been installed in the eighties; so much was required in the way of modernisation. The brief, apart from the structural requirements centred on…

January 16, 2014By Richard Eastwood

In design terms smaller kitchens can often be more of a challenge than larger ones, size does matter… especially when your client requires a host of mod cons to be fitted into a regular sized ‘U’ shaped design… Dishwasher, built in microwave, built in oven, washing machine etc.

January 9, 2014By Richard Eastwood

Very often when we view fabulous kitchens in glossy magazines we only see the finished results! This time I thought I would show some ‘before’ & ‘after’ pictures of the project to show how dramatic transformations can be created. This job was for a landlord of a rented house

July 26, 2013By Richard Eastwood

A few weeks ago I wrote about supplying a client with a large dressing room. The design included a concealed laundry shoot that passed down through two floors into the basement utility room. The design choice was a classic cream ‘shaker’ door style with a ‘hammered’ pewter knob…

April 19, 2013By Richard Eastwood

I recently supplied a client with a luxury kitchen, on completion I was invited to come up with a design for their generously sized dressing room. At first glance it looked like a fairly straight forward brief. However, when I looked more closely…

August 17, 2012By Blum Technical Team

With Ruby’s arrival in mind I recently purchased a standard 800mm wide (720mm high) kitchen base unit. It was supplied with one shelf. I moved the bottom hinge position, added 3 inner drawers & a gadget board which I mounted on a full extension runner to create…