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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 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…
Kitchen cabinets: what is a wood veneer?
All you need to know about the craft – and art – of beautiful wood veneers…
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…
Design for Life: Cottage kitchen by Sarah Spencer Ashworth
Professional interior designer Sarah Spencer Ashworth explains how she created a beautiful, practical family kitchen in a small period cottage…
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…
From our place to yours – an interview with the Everett family
Find out how our unique family partnership and unusual location directly inspires the Naked Kitchens combination of beautiful design and technological innovation…
Lanhydrock House - the quintessential country house kitchen
This Victorian kitchen is a perfect synthesis of craftsmanship, technology, ergonomic function and simple beauty.
Why our ply? 5 reasons our scandi-style birch plywood is the perfect kitchen cabinet material
What’s the best material for making kitchen cabinets? We’ve done the research – and scandi-style birch ply wins hands down…
The IKEA kitchen doors hack – adding high-end bespoke fronts to standard Ikea cabinet carcasses
The idea is brilliantly simple: to turn a standard IKEA kitchen into something that looks stunning using bespoke Naked Kitchens doors. Here’s how to do it…