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Plain English colour collection 2013

  Plain English Design have just launched a new collection of ‘colours for cupboards’ available exclusively to their clients. The palette of twelve colours, developed by interior decorator Adam Bray and stylist Sue Skeen, have some great names: ‘Rice Pudding’, … Continue reading

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The mudroom

This mudroom in Dale Saylor and Joe Williamson’s 1927 craftsman’s cottage in upstate New York doubles as a laundry room and is furnished with a four-foot-long soapstone sink and a large collection of galvanised zinc items. Photographer: William Waldron / … Continue reading

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British Standard cupboards

Just launched today at the Ideal Home Show, this is the ‘British Standard’ range of kitchen cupboards by Plain English. Described as ‘sensible cupboards at sensible prices, for people with good taste but modest means’, the range includes some 40 items … Continue reading

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Stainless steel kitchen

Photographer: Simon Upton/ The Interior Archive Designer: David Gill David Gill is a leading dealer in modernist furniture and contemporary design. The kitchen in his flat above his London gallery mixes stainless steel with 20th century design classics. GEC Anderson GEC Anderson have … Continue reading

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Designing a Kitchen

Decide how a kitchen is to be used and plan accordingly: as a laundry room, to watch TV, or as an area for children to do homework? Will you need more than one oven, a dishwasher, coffee machine, a warming … Continue reading

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Concrete Shelving

A large grey polished concrete shelving unit dominates one wall of the kitchen in this house in Sri Lanka. Photographer: James Fennell/The Interior Archive Architect: Geoffrey Bawa We asked Paul Davies Design, specialists in poured concrete surfaces (including worktops and … Continue reading

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Stable-door kitchen

Shelves used to store wineglasses are mounted above a row of kitchen cupboards designed to resemble stable doors. Photographer: Fritz von der Schulenburg/The Interior Archive Designer: Mimmi O’Connell With the huge range of designer paints currently available it’s difficult to … Continue reading

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