Kitchen layouts often come with a long list of rules you might feel obliged to follow. How many times have you been told your sink should be under the window, or that a kitchen island is an absolute ...

It seems that the more modern life progresses, the harder our kitchens are expected to work. That's all well and good when you have a capacious new build, but if your home is more limited on square ...

Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. An updated version of this series can be viewed here. Kitchens: arguably the most important room of a house, or an apartment. When we shop for a place to ...