‘We Wanted To Create The Unexpected!'
Ideal Home UK|January 2020
Instead of playing it safe with Shaker-style or gloss-finish units, Sarah and Chris West went for the wow factor and chose this contemporary, colourful birch-ply design
‘We Wanted To Create The Unexpected!'
HOW SARAH AND CHRIS DID IT

‘The kitchen that we had was functional but dated, dark and cramped. It was also too far away from the playroom for me to keep an eye on Isobel. Then, when a friend remarked that we needed a downstairs loo, I knew the time had come.

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