Designing Our Fitted Cupboards Part 1

What are the areas worth investing in when renovating? Storage has to be up there somewhere on your list. Don't you agree? It's one of the areas that's totally worth paying for: beautiful, good quality storage will last you a lifetime....and beyond.  I always think that you could have the most beautiful things in the world but if they're covered in clutter then the effect is lost.



I love the skirting continued around the base...

Clutter is the enemy of gorgeous rooms....



Doors set into cupboards always spell quality to me.

...so sorting out the fitted cupboards had to be a priority.
There's a lot of stuff to store!


After a good, long browse around, I decided that Shaker style cupboards, painted white, were the way I wanted to go with this room



Gorgeous panelling.

We were going to need a lot of cupboards!



I love the way this fits into an existing alcove. 

Our Edwardian house has had many of it's features removed over the years so it felt right to be putting something like this back into the house. Even though they won't be original, they will be in keeping. 

I'm loving the extra top row of cupboards for all those extra bits and bobs...

I found lots of inspiration pictures but it was actually pretty hard to find a picture of exactly what I wanted so I pieced together the bits I liked from a hotch-potch of different photos. Although this was more work, it did give me the chance to design our cupboards more or less from scratch, rather than trying to squeeze someone else's design into our space, which never looks great, does it?

And when I say that it was work, between you and me, that's not entirely accurate because it's this bit, the designing things just for us, that I love!

Which is your favourite?

Next time, I'll be posting up all the details, good and bad....

Images via: Peter Henderson, Kate Madison, Mark Wilkinson, Peter Henderson, Pics Digger