WARM HUES
Soften dark kitchen units with wooden blinds and accessories in honey shades
KITCHEN
Kerry wasn’t sure whether to go light or dark for the kitchen units, but eventually opted for the latter. ‘I wanted it to feel like an industrial New York coffee shop,’ she says. ‘As the rest of the house is quite natural and neutral, I like that it has a slightly different feel in here’
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When Kerry Davison and her family outgrew their three-bedroom starter home, she decorated the whole house hoping it would make her fall back in love with it. ‘But it was still too small,’ recalls Kerry. ‘It was fine when it was just me, my daughter, Lyla, and one dog; but then I met my husband, Amin, we had our daughter, Heidi, and three more dogs came along.’
Wanting to be near Kerry’s parents, the couple started house-hunting around Gateshead and Newcastle. She didn’t initially like the idea of buying her