Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2006/January 2007 | Page 16

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Cooking up the
dream kitchen
Linear Kitchen Designs
46 Dodnor Lane, Newport. IW
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When Maureen Beighton
and her husband Sam
bought their bungalow
in Ventnor, they wanted
to create a kitchen that
would become the heart
of their new home.
And the way they did it was to
remove a wall between the kitchen
and dining room to make way for a
huge family space that’s perfect for
cooking, dining and socialising.
The couple bought their dream
kitchen from Linear Kitchens in
Newport, where owner/designer
Janice Miles worked with them to

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achieve the ideal layout for their
lifestyle.
The finished kitchen combines
feature glass-fronted display units
and low-level cabinets in the living
area to match the stunning vanillacoloured kitchen units.
“I’m really pleased with the result,”
says Maureen, “not just for the
way it looks but also because it has
helped us to make better use of our
living space”.
She added: “I had my own ideas,
and sometimes that can be difficult
to get across to a designer, but Janice
was very easy to work with and
we gelled right away. I valued her
input and was delighted with the
kitchen fitters, who were absolutely

meticulous in their work”.
Janice, a former accountant, has
been involved in her family-owned
company for three years and says
she loves being at the creative end
of the business.
“I’m from an artistic family and I’ve
found that designing kitchens gives
me an outlet for that creative side,”
she says. “It’s very satisfying to
work with clients and come up with
a design that’s perfect for them”
Linear
Kitchens
supplies
products from the quality German
company Nolte, whose designs are
characterised by quality materials,
and a choice of either contemporary,
cutting-edge styles or classical
woodgrain designs. Kitchen re-fits

come in at anything from £6,000
to £40,000, depending on size and
specification.
Janice says the concept of the
“living kitchen” such as that
designed for the Beightons is
becoming more and more popular
with clients.
“The way to make it work is to
give different areas of the room a
different function, but to maintain a
uniform design look throughout so
that it flows into one,” she says.
“We did this in Maureen’s home by
using low-level cabinets and glass
features in the living area, where
there was equipment such as a hi-fi
system to be accommodated”

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