I can't wait
to show off MY NEW KITCHEN
By making room for double doors out to the garden, a pop-up drinks area and breakfast bar, Stephanie Mitchell has created a sociable kitchendiner that’s perfect for post-lockdown parties
About me
I’m Stephanie Mitchell, a product design teacher, and I live with my partner, James Bolter, a clinical researcher. We live in a detached 1920s three-bedroom house in Reading. I keep a record of our renovation journey on my Instagram @walkintheparquet.
My room...
MY PROBLEM KITCHEN There was only a free-standing cooker, old sink and four cupboards in the kitchen when we first moved in, and the boiler was in there too. A wall separated the space into two small rooms, and the kitchen area was covered in old wallpaper from the 60s. HOW I MADE IT WORK I wanted to create a sociable open-plan space, so we knocked down the wall and stripped back the floor to restore the beautiful original parquet blocks. We designed the kitchen to include lots of storage and a peninsular island, and the dining area to house a large table, and then we installed doors out to the garden. MY FAVOURITE PART The doors that lead out to the garden. When they were fitted the light flooded in, completely transforming the room.
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