Homes&Interiors Kitchen dreams by the seaside Wirral kitchen designers H Miller Bros recently won Kitchen Design of the Year at the kbbreview Retail and Design Awards for this stunning installation for a busy family in New Brighton
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hen Katherine and Alan decided to replace their existing kitchen – a long, narrow galley which had been looking tired for a while – they had very specific needs based on their growing family. The couple have three small boys, one aged seven and three-year-old twins, and when the pandemic hit, they approached H Miller Bros to redesign the space with a functional, yet beautiful handcrafted design. Katherine said: “Once the twins arrived, the layout of the house just didn’t work. The ground floor was a set of separate rooms that made being together and keeping on top of clutter practically impossible. For example, there was only space for one person at a time to be in the kitchen, and the adjacent dining room felt more like a corridor because access to the other spaces went through it! We wanted to move the kitchen to a larger room and we also wanted a kitchen island.” The couple asked Howard Miller to come up with some ideas and the team went to work. Howard said: “We advised moving the kitchen to a new room created by combining the existing dining and play rooms; it was the only way to create enough space for an island. They also wanted more drawers – their existing kitchen
The cabinets are fronted with cork
had a single cutlery drawer that didn’t open properly. In terms of aesthetics, appliances and features they were open to suggestions. Essentially, it needed a total re-think of how the space was arranged so that it could allow them to enjoy family life and meal times. We made sure to strike a balance between removing clutter and reserving space for the joyful paraphernalia that comes
“We made sure to strike a balance between removing clutter and reserving space for the joyful paraphernalia that comes with a young family”
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