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Ideal Home
Karen Darlow

'I loved the colours of the Sowden kettle, so I made that the starting point for the kitchen'

Oriel window in a kitchen-diner with window seat

When the Covid lockdowns curtailed all normal activities, the owner of this newly renovated kitchen spent their time at home wishfully thinking about how to enlarge their living space with a side-return extension. 

Like many of us, she and her husband were desperate for something to look forward to. ‘All the usual markers of time passing – meals out, days out, holidays – had all gone,’ she recalls. ‘Planning future changes to the house was a kind of escape mentality.’ 

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