Tips On Decorating Your Kitchen

We moved in to our existing home more than fifteen years ago , and about


thirteen years ago we made a start on the kitchen .


Originally it was upstairs , so it had no access to the


garden , and downstairs was a


granny annexe, dining room and larder. We knocked the wall down   between those two areas to make one large


kitchen and dining area , and kept the original French doors and


windows. We also put in plain wooden units . It worked well for more


than ten years but the room began to look a bit tired and the appliances


started to fail . My husband and I had a serious discussion about moving, but


we decided to stay as we love the area and we've got the garden as we like it.


I decided if we were staying, I wanted a new kitchen . Something very different from what we


had -  a contemporary design with clean,


simple lines. We started looking but one company came up with a grand plan


with a grand price, which scared us off a bit


. On a visit to a local


kitchen showroom last spring we saw units we really liked, and this time round


it was a different story. They listened to what we said, respected what we


wanted to spend, made lots of clever suggestions and, best of


all, came in under our budget of £20,000 .


This sum  not only included the


cost of the units and appliances plus all the fitting costs, but alsoincluded


a number of  lovely little accessories which we found to give the new


kitchen a homely lived in look. We went for some original art produced by a


friend of ours which has brightened up the space no end, as well as some of the usual things you will find decorating a kitchen, such as  our favourite aromatic candles produced by Yankee candle and True Grace candles and a beautiful antique


style railway clock which has pride of place above the dining area.
















We ended up with dark brown wooden units as they just seemed to fit with the overall style of our home, which is a slightly traditional property. We were


thinking of something pale, but it's such a light kitchen that we can use a


dark colour. Somne kitchens do not seem to get much in the way of natural daylioght which might be a bit of a problem, but in our case this really was not an issue We knew that we wanted solid oak flooring throughout, and


certainly not the laminate we'd put down previously, which didn't last. It was


an expense to replace the French doors with bi-folding ones but, as they fold


right back, we can watch the garden wildlife more easily. We have tall pull-out


storage units, full-height cupboards and drawers, and a dresser unit that


stores all our tableware. About finishing touches, I remembered that we had


some pendant lights in the loft with a green glass band, so fitted them and


they tie everything together.










The author is owner of The Scented Candle Store where you will find a wide choice of candles as well as reed diffusers