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Room reveal: our minimalist cottage kitchen

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It’s time to share another completed room in the ongoing renovation of our little 19 th -century cottage, and this is one I’m particularly proud of: the kitchen.  Redoing the kitchen was high on our priority list, as the one we inherited when we bought the house – a tired and tatty 1980s design that didn’t suit the cottage or our taste – was barely useable. The unit fronts were paper-thin, cracked and broken; the laminate on the worktop was chipped and peeling away; the lino on the floor was scuffed and ripped; and neither the oven nor the extractor fan worked. In fact we had to rely on an air fryer alone for cooking for several months after moving in, and we couldn’t wait to get started on the makeover.  We were also very excited about the prospect of having a sociable, functional space designed with the way we live in mind. It’s not a particularly large room (3.4 x 3.2m), but it is roughly square – a big change from the narrow galley-style kitchens that we had i...
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Room reveal: our rustic-minimalist dining room

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[Advertisement – this post references PR products, but all words and opinions are my own] After months of flooring, sanding, priming, painting and juggling different trades, the ground floor of our little 19 th -century cottage is pretty much finished – and this once-tired and unloved house is really starting to feel like home.   I’ll share the kitchen and living room in future posts, but I want to start with the dining room. It’s the first space you enter when you step into the cottage through our miniscule vestibule (I’m not sure it even counts as a hallway!), and it sets the tone for the calm, cosy mood that we want to create throughout. It’s also of course the first room that we saw when we viewed the house, so it’s where we began to fall in love with its charms and see the potential behind its then-scruffy and dated decor.   The overall scheme I outlined our renovation plans for the cottage as a whole in this post , where you can also see so...
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