Today kitchens are more sophisticated than ever with smart appliances, sleek and seamless ‘invisible’ cabinetry and clever integrated storage solutions. Yet, despite all of the kitchen tech and ...

Free yourself from the restraints of fully-fitted kitchen cabinetry and enjoy a more flexible, laidback cooking space. For those seeking a more relaxed approach to kitchen design, the option of ...

A modern all-white kitchen with stainless appliances. - Photos By The Owl/Shutterstock After decades of the fitted kitchen's supremacy, trends are turning back to a more traditional configuration, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1977, the cookery writer Elizabeth David wrote an article in which she described her ideal kitchen. Her ...

Reading Deborah Sugg Ryan’s whistle-stop tour of kitchen history (House & Home, FT Weekend, August 28), I recall my grandfather, John Henry Boothman, was one of the pioneers of fitted units in British ...

Granite worktops come in a range of colours including black, cream and pink. It's a non-renewable natural stone, so it requires a significant amount of energy and generates a lot of pollutants during ...

A kitchen renovation needn’t be hellish, nor should it empty the coffers. With a few well-chosen secondhand pieces, you can get all the functions of a fully fitted space, but at the fraction of the ...

Limited funds are no barrier to having a dream kitchen. What counts most is having a good eye and a good fit, the interior designer Naomi Cleaver says. 1 The critical point is that for a fitted ...