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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: Kitchens from around the world
More than just places to cook and eat, kitchens also reflect our cultural values and traditions. Join us on a journey around the world!
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Kitchens Unpacked: Gustav Klimt, seal pups and endless skies
What makes a great kitchen colour palette? The inspirations behind Naked Kitchens’ colours can help unlock the mysteries…
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Kitchens Unbound: The International Space Station galley kitchen
How exactly do you store, prepare and eat meals in a weightless environment, 248 miles above the Earth? With a brilliantly clever kitchen of course…
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Kitchens Unbound: Kitchen appliances through the ages
Can you imagine a world without your fridge or oven? Here’s the tale of how we went from ice boxes to larders and open flames to microwaves.
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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…
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Kitchens Unbound: The Ancient Roman Kitchen
What did the Romans ever do for our kitchens? The answer is, a surprising amount…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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