The owner of this home had given up on finding a kitchen design to reflect her love of colour and order. She was also reluctant simply to trash the existing – new – kitchen, even though it wasn’t working for her. Interior designer Cathy Dean first helped her client to re-home the old kitchen, selling cabinetry and giving appliances to charity. She then came up with the sort of characterful, well-organised space her client hadn’t imagined was possible. “She was so happy she cried when we presented the design to her,” Cathy says. Now there was just the not insignificant issue of fulfilling her client’s brief to create a sociable kitchen with bags of storage – in a 2.5m-wide space. “We like a challenge!” Cathy says. Incredibly, the result is an airy yet vibrant room that packs in a hidden breakfast cupboard, two sinks, bench seating, a table for two and more storage than the homeowner was able to fill. Read on to discover how she did it.

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