Brighten Up Your Kitchen

Sunday Mirror (September 13, 2009)

Author: Cassie Metcalfe

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Having a kitchen falling apart when you have an active toddler is a recipe for disaster. One young mum decided it was time to transform her basement into a family-friendly haven

MY kitchen used to drive me mad. It was in the dark basement of our Victorian terrace house in Battersea, South-West London, there was half the storage space of our previous tiny flat, the oven would only start if you stuck a wooden spoon into the fan, the hob would only light with a match, and the floor was so uneven that if you dropped a pea it would roll into the lowest corner of the room.

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Brighten Up Your Kitchen

And every time I opened a drawer the front would fall off.

Then, with the arrival of our first baby who rapidly became an inquisitive toddler, we realised the teetering shelves full of potential dangers had to go. We decided to rip every...

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