The Home Design Awards - winning kitchen and other projects
The Home Design Awards - winning kitchen and other projects
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1/27 Winning kitchen: Details
A traditional range cooker and Belfast sink add to the eclectic look in last year's winning London kitchen. Wall grout for engineered bricks was painted grey, and then the whole wall sanded back. Brackets made by a local smith hold hanging utensil rods from Ikea.
Jimmy Beltran S
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2/27 Winning kitchen
A New York loft in a London garden — that was the aim of journalist Laura Burkitt, 33, for the Queen’s Park flat she shares with fiancé Ben Sarner.
Art-school trained, her kitchen renovation has sparked a new career in styling and design (lauraburkitt.com).
Viv Yapp for Apartment Therapy
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3/27 Winning kitchen: New career
The couple reconfigured all rooms in the property to make an open-plan living area plus two bedrooms — one en suite — and a small shower room.
Jimmy Beltran S
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4/27 Winning kitchen: Sensible sourcing
They extended the kitchen into the lovely garden, doing all design work themselves and employing builders. Howden kitchen units (howdens.com) were painted charcoal and brass handles were sourced online. To save money, they shopped around for reclaimed materials.
Jimmy Beltran S
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5/27 Winning kitchen: Industrial chic
The industrial look started with Crittall-style black steel doors from Fabco Sanctuary (fabcosanctuary.com), a micro-cement floor by Dan Dixon (theplastercollective.com) and exposed-brick wall.
Jimmy Beltran S
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6/27 Winning bathroom: Not one for minimalists
This hardworking space needs to look good as well as function properly, whether you live in the tiniest London flat or a sprawling country pile — and we want to see how you achieve this.
Scroll right to see last year's winning projects..
Juliet Murphy
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7/27 Winning bathroom
With a new career in styling and interiors, ex-journalist Jess Hurrell, 35, founded her blog, Gold Is A Neutral (goldisaneutral.co.uk) a year ago. Jess is no minimalist, and favourite materials are marble and brass. But the off-black walls and woodwork were a bit of a shock for her decorators.
Juliet Murphy
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8/27 Winning bathroom: Gold is a neutral
The name reveals her taste in interiors: luxurious and glamorous with metallic touches — such as the brass-faced vanity unit in her recently renovated bathroom at home in Honor Oak Park, south-east London, where she lives with husband David and their children Rafferty, six, and two-year-old Nellie.
Juliet Murphy
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9/27 Winning bathroom: Major works
The old bathroom was ripped out and a fish tank in the chimney breast became a traditional fire surround. A Jacuzzi was replaced by a freestanding tub in volcanic limestone from Victoria + Albert Baths (vandabaths.com).
Juliet Murphy
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10/27 Winning bathroom: Rich and exciting
Brass taps and the huge shower head are from Perrin & Rowe (perrinandrowe.co.uk) and exposed pipework was repositioned under the floor, covered with encaustic tiles from Bert & May (bertandmay.com).
Juliet Murphy
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11/27 Winning bedroom
French-born Emilie Mauran, 38, was inspired by hotel bedrooms but wanted something more personal. Farrow & Ball’s pinkish Peignoir is here teamed with a grey carpet.
Juliet Murphy
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12/27 Winning bedroom: Storage works
Emilie’s five-week bedroom renovation involved knocking two first-floor bedrooms into one large bedroom en suite.
Hanging space in cupboards is 60cm deep, with shallower joinery linked by an attractive shelf that the judges loved, 45cm deep, on either side of the bed.
Juliet Murphy
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13/27 Winning bedroom:Statement features
There’s a statement La Volières aviary-inspired cage pendant lamp by Mathieu Challières (hollowaysofludlow.com), wall lights, reading lights by the bed, a chaise longue (camerich.co.uk) and a dressing table (made.com).
Juliet Murphy
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14/27 Winning bedroom:Top tips
Emilie’s tips: "Allow 80cm of leg room around your bed. Have a nice ‘view’ from your bed. Choose calming colours: light pink, greens and blues. Colour-match joinery doors with walls.”
Juliet Murphy
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15/27 Winning bedroom:Flattering tones
What the judges said: "Loved the pinky plaster finish, it’s so flattering”; "Good clothes storage — no chucking on chairs”; "Well-planned lighting and power points.”
Juliet Murphy
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16/27 Winning living room
"My style is big and bold and I take risks,” says Stephanie Savvides-Howell, 34, who lives with husband Simon and their two Bengal cats in a five-bedroom Edwardian semi in Whetstone, N20. She is deputy head of a primary school in Belsize Park and "a sucker for period details”.
Juliet Murphy
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17/27 Winning living room: Starting point
When they moved in during May last year, the living room was brown and beige. Starting point was the sideboard with textured brass front from Swoon Editions (swooneditions.com) which cried out for a dark wall. Stephanie took the plunge: "It was nerve-wracking, my first experience of going dark.” The shade name, requested many times on Instagram, is Hague Blue by Farrow & Ball.
Juliet Murphy
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18/27 Winning living room: Surrounds and shutters
The replica fire surround was painted in satin white. Shutters fit in well and can be angled for privacy. The engineered oak floor was from local supplier The Floor Shop (thefloorshop.co.uk), the pink sofa and chair are from Debenhams using bank holiday weekend discounts, with a second grey sofa from Furniture Village (furniturevillage.co.uk).
Juliet Murphy
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19/27 Winning living room: Layering
A striking modern chandelier plus wall spots provide "layered lighting”. Accessories are a self-confessed weakness: "I could open a store with my impulse-buy rejects.”
Juliet Murphy
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20/27 Winning living room: Be bold
Stephanie’s tips: "Hold your nerve. Use a wall paint primer for fewer top coats and an even colour. Get inspiration from high-end restaurants and hotels all over London.”
Juliet Murphy
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21/27 Winning garden
Simon Hurst, 46, bought his Thirties house in Walthamstow in 2001 and renovated it using DIY skills learned from his father and grandfather, antique furniture restorers. The south-facing garden was a blank canvas, "the perfect place to play with”.
Juliet Murphy
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22/27 Winning garden: Outdoor oasis
A garden "should be an outdoor room, a secluded oasis”, says Simon. This one is a good size with access through a lane at the back, a cobbled central circle and York stone paths.
Juliet Murphy
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23/27 Winning garden: Trickery
A big mirror on the end wall hints at another garden beyond; a stream trickles into a pond. Table and chairs are from outsideedgegardenfurniture.co.uk.
Juliet Murphy
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24/27 Winning garden: Small spaces
"Urban gardeners have to be clever, make things look bigger than they really are, with planting adding mystery.”
Juliet Murphy
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25/27 Winning garden: Clever planting
Trellis supports jasmine, clematis, honeysuckle and mini ivy. Larger shrubs give height, and at a lower level are shade-loving ferns for a tiered effect.
Juliet Murphy
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26/27
Our panel of judges met on Monday 18 June in the luxurious Lecture Room & Library at design hotspot Sketch to determine the winners of each category.
The judges, from left: Isabelle Palmer, founder of The Balcony Gardener; Richard MacRae of architecture design studio EDRM; TV’s Great Design Challenge judge and past president of the British Institute of Interior Design, Daniel Hopwood; Mad About The House author Kate Watson-Smyth; Homes & Property writer Barbara Chandler; interior design duo Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead of 2LG Studio; Homes & Property editor Janice Morley; Victoria Harrison, editor of Houzz UK; Mr & Mrs Smith hotels founder Tamara Lohan and food writer and broadcaster Rachel Khoo.
Juliet Murphy
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27/27
Judging was rigorous, with much heated debate and took place, appropriately, in Sketch London’s glamorous Lecture Room & Library restaurant in Mayfair with its hand-painted ceiling swirls and zigzag-patterned walls threaded with real silver, and in the adjacent library with its 1779 James Wyatt dome.
Juliet Murphy
Entries are now open for the Evening Standard Home Design Awards. We are asking homeowners and renters across the UK to share with us their inspiring makeover projects, whatever the size or budget.
From kitchens and gardens to bedrooms, living rooms and bathrooms, we're looking for the imaginative and thoughtful ways you have transformed a space. To enter, and to find out how your home makeover projects could win you £1,000 worth of prizes, click here.
Have you recently finished a kitchen makeover?
Our kitchens are the heart of our homes, a space where guests gather to chat, or even help out, while their hosts cook, and where the whole family will spend an evening working, cooking, eating, chatting and relaxing.
As a result this hardworking space needs to look good as well as function properly, whether you live in the tiniest London flat or a sprawling country pile.
This is the room people are now likely to spend the most social time in, meaning we want comfort, style and atmosphere in one.
And with our cooking habits exposed, well-designed work surfaces, clever layouts and well-placed appliances are also a must.
Whether you have space for the full dream kitchen, complete with Aga, kitchen island and 12-person dining table, or you're making the most of every spare inch in a cramped apartment with multi-functional spaces, we want to see how you've made your kitchen look and act the part.
And sharing the ingenious ideas you use to tackle decorating dilemmas is invaluable for us all.
Enter our Home Design Awards here
How it works
It couldn't be easier to enter. Upload one photo and a description of your finished makeover in any — or all — of the categories to be in with a chance to win £1,000 worth of fabulous prizes.
Entries close at noon on May 10 2019.
Each category will have two winners: home decorators and DIYers are invited to enter, as well as professional interiors experts and Instagram influencers, giving us 10 winners in total.
Our expert judges will debate and decide the winning projects in the exclusive Library & Lecture Room at Sketch, London’s most Instagrammable design hotspot.
The winning designers and their makeover projects will be photographed and featured in the Evening Standard in July and across our digital and social platforms.
Win £1,000 worth of prizes
Each of our 10 winners will receive £550 worth of luxury hotel-style bed linen from Tielle Love Luxury. It will include the bestselling superking cotton duvet cover, sheets and pillow cases; a jumbo towel bundle (with eight towels in four sizes) and two feather and down pillows as used by the five-star hotel Claridge’s in Mayfair.
They will also receive a sleek Bose Home Speaker 500, optimised for voice control via Amazon Alexa with integrated wi-fi, worth £400, and a £50 voucher to spend in the Lecture Room & Library, Sketch London’s luxurious two Michelin-star dining room, where all the tasting and à la carte menus have been devised by French chef Pierre Gagnaire.
Judging
Our panel of expert judges includes Janice Morley, editor of Homes & Property; Dan Hopwood, former president of the British Institute of Interior Design; and award-winning design writer Barbara Chandler.
Joining them are design journalist and author of Mad About The House Kate Watson-Smyth; Marianne Shillingford, the creative director of Dulux; Thomas Sanderson product manager Laura O’Connell; and interior designer and TV presenter Sophie Robinson.
Judging will take place at Sketch London on June 3 in the recently redesigned Library, with its glittering chandeliers and vibrant hand-painted ceiling swirls. It is set against the eye-popping backdrop of the exquisite Lecture Room, with its opulent burnt-orange shades and zig zag-patterned walls threaded with real silver under a stunning domed ceiling.
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