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Our eating habits have changed enormously over the past 50 years and our eating spaces have changed too...
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It is a fallacy that every kitchen is worth extending. If it eats up your garden, disrupts the balance of your house or looks like a badly-constructed carbuncle, you may knock thousands off the value of your home and make it harder to sell in the current marketplace.
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With every square foot of a property costing a premium and lifestyles becoming less and less formal, the dining room is often the first room to be sacrificed...
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In large areas with cavernous high ceilings, where there is a shortage of light, split-level kitchens are a great solution as they make a big space appear inviting and cosy...
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Most people today want relaxed and informal living spaces and, as a result, the open-plan family kitchen/living room has become extremely popular...
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Most families love eating in the kitchen so it can be a vital element when creating a family home to live in, or to sell...
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You need bright light in a kitchen, especially around work surfaces, sinks, oven and hobs.
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Few homes now have a dedicated room for laundry, clothes-drying and to store the mop and vacuum cleaner. Instead, now that space carries such a premium in price, the washing machine is in the kitchen and we dry clothes in the dryer - or on radiators throughout the house...
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