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Ideal Home
Holly Cockburn

3 design tricks for making your kitchen look bigger and brighter in the winter months – as recommended by kitchen experts

Open plan kitchen with pink walls, black Shaker style kitchen units, and rustic vintage furniture. Stainless steel range cooker. A kitchen project, the conversion of a basement to a kitchen diner in a five bedroomed Victorian house in Worthing, East Sussex, home of Jacquie and Ian Roebuck.

As we head into the winter months, natural light in our homes is few and far between. A kitchen is often one of the worst culprits - situated at the back of a house, it can be hard for natural light to come streaming in, and when it comes to early mornings and evenings during the winter, you likely won't see it venture into the kitchen at all.

While we love to make things cosy with warm, earthy kitchen colour schemes and kitchen lamps that add ambience to an evening, maximising natural light where possible is always the overall aim.

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