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Kitchen renovation project
Helena is Deputy Editor of Real Homes magazine and has gradually been updating the Georgian flat she shares with husband Gareth since they bought it in 2004. Each room has been transformed in a traditional style to work with the existing period features and room proportions, but with a contemporary edge to incorporate fixtures such as a cast iron bath or classic chandelier with up-to-date colours and modern flock wallpapers. Helena and Gareth are expecting their first child this Spring and are overhauling their dated and broken kitchen before he is born.
Latest blog post
It was quite a luxury coming home from work each night to find a bit more of our kitchen had been completed in our absence – all of our kind labourers, now known as Team Kitchen, have been working ridiculously hard and cleaning up after...
Previous blog posts
Gareth has been really keen to get started on the kitchen so he took a hammer to the old units on one of his days off and tore out almost all of it. We were left with just the sink, the gas rings...
After realising we couldn’t make the initial designs for our new kitchen work, our designer Enrico did a fantastic job of reworking the space overnight. So when Gareth and I arrived to find out...
Because my appointment at John Lewis of Hungerford was on a Saturday, Gareth was busy at work cooking lunch for all of his customers. So I took my mum with me for a second set of eyes.
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When I sat down and worked out how long we’d lived in our Georgian flat for, it was quite a surprise – 8 years isn’t long by many standards but when I realised we’d lived with our awful kitchen...
