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The Naked Kitchens blog is the place where we celebrate all the highs, lows, and beautiful chaos of kitchen life.
Come on in for style ideas, expert guides, lighting, plants, recipes, and plenty besides, all from some truly fabulous and exciting guest authors.
Design for Life: A contemporary kitchen in a Victorian townhouse by Jake Lai
How do you create a modern, minimalist kitchen space in a Victorian townhouse with odd angles and limited light? Architect Jake Lai reveals his secrets…
Kitchens Unbound: Vermeer’s Milkmaid and her kitchen
The Milkmaid is almost certainly the most important kitchen-based picture in European art. And, if you look at it in the right way, it can still inspire kitchen design today…
What Are The Benefits Of A Wooden Kitchen Worktop?
An expert guide to wooden worktops – including tips for caring for your surfaces…
Kitchens Unbound: The Ancient Roman Kitchen
What did the Romans ever do for our kitchens? The answer is, a surprising amount…
Splashback statements - an expert guide to choosing and using kitchen splashbacks
Here’s everything you need to know about kitchen splashbacks, and how to use them to style up your space…
Built For An Artist’s Life - Behind The Scenes
Discover how we crafted a kitchen with Mondrian-inspired cabinetry and Jackson Pollock-inspired doors, why we did it and how we found out there’s not enough supermarkets in Norfolk to satisfy our mustard needs….
Kitchens Unpacked: the story of Colman’s Mustard
No kitchen store cupboard looks complete without a dash of mustard. From Norfolk to the South Pole via Nigella’s handbag, here’s the story of that brilliant, beautiful yellow…
Kitchen Ergonomics - Make your Kitchen More Efficient
How to apply some science to your kitchen layout and make it a more convenient, efficient and enjoyable space…
‘Kitchens Fit for Heroes’: The surprising brilliance of Britain’s post-war prefabs
They might not be anyone’s idea of a dream kitchen now, but these ingenious prefabs transformed lives, sometimes with remarkable consequences…
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