It took Sophie and her family two years to move just 50 metres when they bought their end-of-terrace townhouse. ‘We were renting on the same street,’ says Sophie. ‘The purchase took a long time. It had been an Airbnb, and it was tired. The kitchen, on the lower ground floor, felt disconnected; small and dark.’ Sophie and her husband George have three children under 14, so they focused on making their new kitchen diner both ‘fun and sunny.’
‘The houses on this street are beautiful, but they have a tendency to be gloomy, so we chose an actively cheerful design,’ she says. ‘We knew we wanted colour, and “bright” is what makes us happy.’ While every other room in the house has two strong colours, the colourful kitchen is ‘where it all collides,’ laughs Sophie, who chose yellow, pink and blue for both cabinetry and walls.
