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OUR DREAM KITCHEN

Laura Hall spent four years saving up for her new kitchen, before decorating with contrasting patterns, pops of colour and retro details

I’m Laura Hall, a finance and operations manager for a theatre company. I live with my husband, Graham, a software developer, and our two boys, Benjamin, four, and Rory, two. Our home is a three-bedroom, 1930s end terrace in Woolton, Liverpool. We bought the house in October 2015, and I post interior updates on Instagram @thehexagonalhouse.

My room... MY PROBLEM KITCHEN

The original kitchen was an odd, angular-shaped room with brown ’90s-style units. I initially painted the cabinets grey and the tiles white, but no amount of paint could cover the years of neglect.

HOW I MADE IT WORK

We decided to extend to create an open-plan kitchen-diner to make room for my longed-for big kitchen table. Although we chose classic Shaker cabinets, I added bold touches of colour, pattern and vintage furniture to give the space a unique feel.

MY FAVOURITE PART

I love the exposed beam, which gives the space an added quirkiness. I also love our massive kitchen table that really has become the heart of the home.

‘It doesn’t matter if other people don’t like how you decorate your home, as long as you love it’

Before

TOTAL £4,725

‘I really love the patina of these pink tiles, from Tile Mountain, and although every tile is essentially the same, each one looks different as the light in here changes. Graham said he finally feels like a grown-up now that we own a range cooker, and this Chefmaster range also has a wok feature built in’