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House and Home
January - February 2005

Modern Simplicity
Nicola and John Hall’s kitchen in Rathmines, Dublin proves it’s possible to do the white thing with a family without it looking cold and characterless.

After Years Of Making do with a small, dark, dated and not-so-practical kitchen Nicola and John Hall decided it was time for a change. “Our old kitchen was really small and rather crowded, we’d very little storage and worktop space, and because the kitchen was at the back of the house it got very little light. What we really wanted was a big family kitchen that would accommodate us and our three children,” says Nicola, who knew that modernizing her kitchen would involve more that just ripping out the old units and replacing them with new ones. It meant knocking down walls to create a bigger space. Enter architect of Dublin practice Box Architecture.

The Brief
“Nicola and John’s kitchen was a pretty standard 1980s design with lots of heavy mouldings. It was badly planned and very messy,” says Box. “My brief was to create a light, bright and spacious modern kitchen with lots of hidden storage that could accommodate an island at one end and a large dining table at the other.”

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