After years of writing about kitchens and watching trends come and go (and come back again), you’d think I’d be immune to their allure when it comes to renovating my own homes. Sadly, I’m just as susceptible to a hot new kitchen trend now as I was back then. Fresh out of journalism school, I barely knew how to cook but spent hours swooning around drool-worthy kitchen shoots lusting after everything in sight.
Fast forward 20-odd years and four kitchen renos, and I’ve learned a few tough lessons when it comes to kitchen design trends. There are some I will never regret; like embracing the joys of induction hobs and open-shelving over wall cabinets – the extra dusting is so worth it! But there are also a fair few trends that seemed amazing at first but have turned out to have unexpected downsides in time.
