Kitchen Design Blog & Guides

Nobody notices a wall unit hung at the right height. They notice the one that isn’t. It’s the press you crack your head off leaning over the sink, or the top shelf you quietly gave up on and now use for the good delft twice a year. Base units forgive a lot, because you’re always […]

Ask for a quote on new kitchen presses and the document that comes back is full of the word “unit”. Ask the fitter standing in your kitchen with a tape measure and he’ll call the same object a press. A catalogue printed in Britain calls it a cupboard; one written for the American market calls […]

Kitchen plans devote plenty of attention to doors, worktops and appliances. Plinths, cornices and pelmets are often reduced to a few lines near the bottom of the order, even though they determine whether the cabinets look properly finished when the kitchen is installed. These pieces are not interchangeable. A plinth closes the gap below base […]

An affordable kitchen is not necessarily the kitchen with the lowest figure at the bottom of the first quote. It is the kitchen that gives you a sound layout, reliable cabinets and a finish you are happy to live with, without spending heavily on details that add little to daily use. That distinction matters. Two […]

Almost every kitchen showroom in Dublin looks good on a Saturday walk-through — that’s what showrooms are designed to do. The differences that actually matter, the ones that decide whether your renovation goes smoothly or turns into six months of chasing someone for a fix, don’t show up in the display units at all. They […]

The splashback tends to get decided in the last few weeks of a kitchen project, often as an afterthought once the cabinets, worktop and appliances are already chosen. That’s understandable, but it’s also how a lot of people end up with a splashback that doesn’t quite work with everything else in the room. This guide […]

Most homeowners start their worktop decision with a colour in mind, not a material. That’s the right instinct — the colour is what you’ll actually look at every day, while the material mostly determines price and durability. This guide sets out what’s genuinely selling in Irish kitchens right now, how to pair a worktop colour […]

An island is the single most requested feature we hear at design consultations, and it’s also the one most often ruled out too quickly, usually because a homeowner has seen a huge American-style island online and assumed their own kitchen simply isn’t big enough. In a lot of Irish homes, particularly older semi-detached and terraced […]

Quartz has become the default “if I could have anything” worktop for Irish kitchens, and in a lot of cases it’s the right call — it’s harder-wearing than laminate, more consistent than natural granite, and available in colours that didn’t exist even five years ago. It’s also one of the easiest kitchen decisions to overspend […]

If you’ve started pricing a new kitchen or a worktop replacement, laminate is very likely the material you keep coming back to. It’s still the worktop fitted into more Irish kitchens than any other, not because it’s the cheapest option on the shelf, but because for most households it does the job well without asking […]

Most storage frustration in Irish kitchens isn’t really about having too little space — it’s about having space that’s badly used. A deep corner cupboard where things vanish into the back, a narrow gap beside the fridge doing nothing, a single shelf holding three years of mismatched Tupperware lids. Good storage design solves this without […]

Worktops get a lot of attention when it comes to choosing a colour or material, and almost none when it comes to how they’re actually fitted — which is a shame, because the installation is where a worktop either looks seamless for the next fifteen years or starts lifting at the joint within six months. […]