Thursday, 19 February 2015

Kitchens Newcastle Interiors... Your Kitchen Rules

Ex car designers have taken to sculpt the hub of family life

 Kitchen Porter and Jones - more iron, graphite, copper, brass and natural stone will be the trend in recent designs.

Major decisions are carried out in the kitchen. It's where the kitchen occurs, but it is often the boardroom of the family too. When problems occur, the kitchen is the place where they are corrected.

Is more informal than the living room and less territorial Room. And it provides a captive audience.



If you want to talk to someone about an uncomfortable subject, wait until they are cutting vegetables. You'll have at least half its staff, is unlikely to go down, and you will not have to look in the eyes. In fact, they are easy to whatever you want to talk white.

Just be careful of sharp knives.

When the kitchen design focuses on ergonomics alone, sometimes misses the mark. I have seen magnificent open kitchens with all appliances in the catalog, and have known instinctively that he would not be able to relax in them. Maybe it's just me, but I cannot tell people my problems when I'm surrounded by high gloss finishes.

And I cannot imagine trusting someone in a room full of edges and right angles. My kitchen is not just a workstation - is also a confessional.

Any kitchen designer worth his salt will take this into account.

"You have to be good at dealing with people. A lot of the time you are listening to what they say as much as what they say," says Lisa Johnston of Johnston Cillian Studio.

"The kitchens are very personal. For me, the feeling of space is paramount. If you have ten presses, can fill them all. If you only have one you will learn to handle that. But we must be able to enter a kitchen and think -. Here is a space where I can operate Aesthetics are a consequence of that ".

She finds that the Irish can be cautious about their kitchens, often fleeing adventurous designs. "We all have a conception of what a kitchen, and generally we grew up with," she says.

"Most of the Irish want to move a leap forward with design, but not ten falls. We need that connection with the past."

From a kitchen is a big investment, it is probably wise to be conservative. And the more you spend, the more time is likely to last. A kitchen Cillian Johnston Studio will cost at least € 15,000, but for that you get a fully handmade in which each element.

"We do everything ourselves," Johnston says. "If we say we do a drawer we actually do from scratch tailored is that means that all elements are elastic modularity No -.... That means there is no restriction"

If you buy a kitchen entry level, probably it is a company that offers modular units, put together to get closer to what you want approximation. There will be limitations, but that will be reflected in the cost. 2015 Ikea catalog, for example, shows kitchens between € 1,000 and € 3,000. Even when you added the cost of bringing home the planes packages, and around € 1,300 to be fitted kitchen, still pretty cheap.

The argument against buying entry level kitchens is that they do not last, but it depends on what you mean by duration. Our own kitchen cost around € 2,000 to buy and 1,000 € to install about seven years ago. It looked great for the first five years. Now it's getting a little old, but I think we can jolly along for a while.

Kitchen Porter & Jones Dublin start at about € 20,000. The company is the Irish agent for Snaidero, an Italian brand known for expensive, minimal, contemporary kitchens. But even if you cannot afford to buy in this end of the market, worth taking a look at what is happening in the forefront of technology and style.

Since many of Snaidero designers have worked on the car industry, it is not surprising that some of their kitchens have the type of finish you would expect in an expensive car.

"As for the finish, I think we will be seeing more matte finishes," says Liza Porter Jones & Jones. "Snaidero have introduced a compound of mica in a range of lacquers which gives them a pearly shine."

Marble is still the most popular work surface, for those who can afford it, but the highly polished black marble from the boom years ago has given way to pale gray and white with subtle veining. "The whiter the most expensive!" says Jones.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Top Interior Design Trends For 2015

The Dean Hotel in Dublin has all the latest trends, including changing blue walls, in a nutshell.

are you planning to redecorate your home this year? If so, you'll be looking interior design tips and inspiration. Here we ask the experts for their top trends for 2015.


 
Warm colors

the consensus among designers is that rust and blue will be great this year. There will be nothing cheerful and boating on the use of the blue, however. This is blue changing. The Dean Hotel, a new fashion hotel Dublin, interior designer Mhairi Coyle says it "makes all things new in a nutshell", has used this tone to contrast with white ceilings.

Joe Burns, co-founder of super prime interior designer and developer Oliver Burns, think blue will continue to evolve, "becoming a warmer color, making it more acceptable as neutral, especially when combined with green and exotic yellow”.

The main color expert Pantone Color for 2015 is Marsala, a red-brown earthy, or oxide, a shadow described as "abundant, yet elegant tone." Named after the Italian wine, is a neutral tone that will appeal to men and women. There is some support for green too. Dara Huang, director of Design Haus Liberty, is favoring this color.

The return of traditional bathroom

Bathrooms are outdated fashion - or rather, they are no longer fashionable. You can get contemporary bathrooms around the world, which may be why some people are returning to the vintage look. The bathroom of the Victorian era, with separate foot tub, wallpaper, wood panels or tiles on the wall, and a carpet mat on the floor, is the ideal.

Burns said: "We have begun to see the elements of traditional bathroom sneak back into the interior."

The kitchen as the new hall

most new home constructions have a kitchen-dining room open plan, so it makes sense to make the kitchen look more like a living space, otherwise it may seem like you are camping in the kitchen.

Designer Sophie Ashby says: "People (are) away from the gaze 'bright picture' and more towards a kitchen with character and personality, shown through very unique, such as unusual wood materials, metal siding and marble statement. “Even taps will get more attention, he says, with a preference for black matte bronze and brass.

Wood paneling

Are your walls are bland? Then wood panels - another key trend - could be the answer. After all, the Georgians, who were experts in wood paneling or wainscoting, knew how to make an elegant home. The real stuff is expensive so if you are on a budget you have two options: buy reclaimed panels or create your own. Create two by four squares using wooden boards and paint the wood and walls. You can also try the tongue and groove ceiling.

Malachite

Malachite seems to be the new marble. This semiprecious stone is commonly used in jewelry and for decorative boxes. Its appeal lies in its color - a rich emerald green - and their employers - swirling bands of light and dark tones.

Burns says, "not only offers an intense color interior follows from the deep blue we've seen this year, also has a wonderful, organic impression."

Bronze

Want to make your kitchen look less sterile? Enter some hot metal. Coyle said: "tops covered copper, although it is a nightmare to keep looking bright, looks great." For a more understated look, go for bronze. You could add smaller details such as hinges and handles, or kitchen faucets.

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

The Mosque Kitchen

The Mosque Kitchen is an institution in Edinburgh. Ask anyone who was once a student broke in this magnificent city and be able to tell that in the end, how wonderful the food is here and how reasonably priced it is.

Now, I'm sad to say it’s been a few years since I've been a student, but I still like to pay this place a visit once in a while I get the craving for curry cheap solution, but tasty.

The main mosque cuisine is on the corner of Plaza Nicolson, however this place really started to turn in the King Fahd Mosque in Potterrow. The story goes that the kitchen used to serve chicken and rice at reasonable prices to customers after Friday prayers, however after 9/11 the manager decided to open the restaurant to everyone, regardless of religious belief, to show Islam "was not terror".

The word of his tasty food and reasonable prices soon spread, and his popularity soared. It expanded to premises on the main road but you can still find the original kitchen around the corner if you want to have lunch at the mosque itself.



Normally just go to the restaurant on the corner which is still owned by the same people and serves the same delicious scran. The interior features a bright interior, but simple, and you have to go to the bar in the back for his food - no table service here. But for the price, you cannot complain.



As you go up, you will see that all the food is out and ready to go is. All you have to do is tell the server the dish you want, will slop on a paper plate for you and go. Being a creature of habit, I always go for the vegetable curry. At 3.50 pounds, it's the cheapest meal on the menu, but it's a generous portion and absolutely delicious.



Mr. Bug normally goes for chana masala (chickpea curry) but the last time we went he got the chicken curry, which he was equally tasty. It's a little more expensive, but at 4.50 pounds, is hardly going to break the bank.



So if you are in Edinburgh and a bit of a budget, then the mosque kitchen is definitely a good shout for a meal. It's a luxury experience, but the food is excellent and unlike many restaurants in Edinburgh, you will not leave with a portfolio of mourn.