In keeping with her philosophy around evolving and decorating, most of the furniture and art came with Suzie from her previous house. \u201cI must have experimented with the layout in this room 50 times, moving things around, editing, trying things out and adding in pieces until I felt it was balanced.\u201d<\/p>\n
The kitchen, with its freestanding island, curved window overlooking the sea, arched cupboards and range in the original fireplace opening, has a timeless and traditional air. \u201cI love to cook so the aesthetic here had to be very useable and practical \u2013 with a young family, functionality is key.\u201d Here, the statement piece is the magnificent (and mobile) kitchen island, which Suzie designed using the idea of a traditional dairy table as a reference point. \u201cBuilding an interior around a centrepiece helps generate spontaneity.\u201d She also designed the banquette and kitchen table, and the cabinetry. \u201cI find modern kitchen joinery can be monolithic and overly functional-looking so I analysed the existing proportions of the room very carefully and working with what was there, created what I hope is a both clean and timeless effect.\u201d The palette is soft, with vibrancy delivered courtesy of the art arranged on the walls and an abundance of scatter cushions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In keeping with her philosophy around evolving and decorating, most of the furniture and art came with Suzie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-266746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115836903947777542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}