Blog
The Naked Kitchens blog is the place where we celebrate all the highs, lows, and beautiful chaos of kitchen life.
Come on in for style ideas, expert guides, lighting, plants, recipes, and plenty besides, all from some truly fabulous and exciting guest authors.
Kitchens Unbound: Vermeer’s Milkmaid and her kitchen
The Milkmaid is almost certainly the most important kitchen-based picture in European art. And, if you look at it in the right way, it can still inspire kitchen design today… Read more
Kitchens Unbound: The Ancient Roman Kitchen
What did the Romans ever do for our kitchens? The answer is, a surprising amount… Read more
Kitchens Unpacked: the story of Colman’s Mustard
No kitchen store cupboard looks complete without a dash of mustard. From Norfolk to the South Pole via Nigella’s handbag, here’s the story of that brilliant, beautiful yellow… Read more
‘Kitchens Fit for Heroes’: The surprising brilliance of Britain’s post-war prefabs
They might not be anyone’s idea of a dream kitchen now, but these ingenious prefabs transformed lives, sometimes with remarkable consequences… Read more
Henry VIII’s 55-room kitchen at Hampton Court Palace
This is the concept of a ‘kitchen’ taken to the extreme – but look closely and there are some surprisingly lovely design touches… Read more
The Frankfurt Kitchen - the kitchen that revolutionised modern design
This ordinary-looking room still influences kitchen design a century on. We reveal its revolutionary secrets… Read more
Lanhydrock House - the quintessential country house kitchen
This Victorian kitchen is a perfect synthesis of craftsmanship, technology, ergonomic function and simple beauty. Read more
Julia Child’s home kitchen - built for real life
This kitchen is so important that it’s permanently on show at the Smithsonian and has its own HBO series. We uncover its secrets…
Read more
The Sunderland flying boat galley kitchen - built for a high pressure life
At Naked Kitchens we like to say we make ‘bomb-proof’ kitchens, but this one takes it to a different level…
Read more
-500x500.jpg)
