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Kitchens & Bathrooms

“It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present.”
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

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Architects, designers and their clients can, spend days or even weeks discussing solutions for the kitchen and bathroom – and with good reason. If those two spaces are right, everything else falls into place.

While every room in the house has to work hard to deliver design outcomes conducive to the client’s lifestyle, the kitchen and bathroom need to work that bit harder, as anyone who’s ever lived with a dysfunctional bathroom (I can raise my hand here) or illogically planned kitchen will agree.

So where to look for inspiration? In researching this year’s kitchens

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