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Coastal charm

I’m Rosie Birkett, an award-winning recipe writer, cookbook author and stylist living on the Kent coast with my husband, our baby and dog. We have a long, narrow galley kitchen which is situated in an extension on our Victorian terraced house. The style is classic shaker cabinetry with raw plaster walls and marble floor tiles. There are antiqued brass fixtures and modern flourishes, and I’ve taken inspiration from European travels across Italy and France.

The kitchen is a crucial space in any house but for me it also doubles as my workplace and studio where I develop and test recipes, write and capture photography, and film my content – so it really had to look beautiful and feel like

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