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Essential Tips for Creating Your Dream Kitchen Design A Guide to Your Culinary Haven
Introduction Welcome to our blog where we are going to take a look at our essential tips for designing your dream kitchen. The kitchen is more than just a place to cook; it's a hub of creativity, nourishment, and connection. Whether you're starting from scratch or...
Winter’s coming.
The season of colder weather, possibly snow and ice is here, but what does that mean for your kitchen? Cooking Winter foods in your kitchen For cooks, winter is a season of ingenuity, challenge and opportunity. What can seem to many like endless months of dreariness...
Capacity planning when designing your kitchen
How many bottles of wine will you be able to fit in your fridge, how many of your favourite cake tins or baking trays will fit in your new pan drawer and how much weight will your new larder storage take in terms of tinned foods? When you are planning your new kitchen...
Evolution Of The Kitchen Triangle
Applying some basic principles will help you navigate your way through the process of designing your dream kitchen although the advice of an experienced kitchen designer such as the team at absolute kitchens should always be sought! At Absolute Kitchens we work with...
School’s Out!
Why are the Summer holidays the perfect time to plan and design your dream kitchen? Most people shelve thinking about home improvement projects during the summer, too busy with keeping the family occupied, going on holidays and lazing around in the summer sun....
Kitchen Product Trends #3 – Warming Up
When naming a household appliance that's essential for day-to-day duties, the oven is usually the top of the list. It's used without complaint for years and only replaced when it finally gives out, in fact according to the Houzz Kitchen Trends Survey 2018, the oven is...
Kitchen Product Trends #2 – We Need Extraction!
When we think of extraction, it's easy to picture a wall-mounted, ugly, loud box (shaped like an AT-AT's foot from Star Wars) that hoovers steam or smoke coming from whatever is cooking on the hob; however like televisions, hoods and fans have become slim, streamlined...
Kitchen Product Trends #1 – If These Kitchens Could Talk…
As previous covered with our blogs, technology is a vital part of the modern kitchen. We rely on it to help us illuminate, heat and clean but what about stock control, or entertainment? Artificial Intelligence is a concept that's traversed from science-fiction to...
Kitchen Product Trends – Introduction
If you're a reader of the Absolute Kitchens blogs, then you're already familiar with our Design Trends series (found here) and how we summarised some of the biggest trends to hit the kitchen design industry. We looked at topic from Technology to finding The Best...
Kitchen Design Trends 5 – Industry Trends (A Reflection)
Over the past 4 articles we have explored what design trends have dominated the kitchen world in the past year. We've looked at The Comfort Factor, Technology, The Finishing Touches and The Best Deal; so what have we learned? In The Comfort Factor we discussed how...
Kitchen Design Trends 4 – The Best Deal
As the industry evolves so do the customers. That's why our next trend is an obvious one but no less important to the kitchen trade. People want a good deal, they don't want to be sold a product only to have it break or become inferior after a few weeks/months/years....
Kitchen Design Trends 3 – The Finishing Touches
When creating any product the final (and some would say the most important) stage is the finishing touch. So why miss this out when it comes to a new kitchen? Thanks to the trends we've covered already it's clear to see that basic and simple just won't do anymore,...