Grand Designs Australia

Kitchen talk

the kitchen may be the heart of the home, but in terms of budget, it can give you a coronary. Once a hidden-away service space, now it seems every home is judged by its standard of appliances, benchtops and finishes. When did the kitchen become such a focal point, forcing us to spend thousands on literally everything that opens and shuts?

We can’t blame the mid-century modernists as although they introduced

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