I spent a year in a tiny studio apartment with a sad, little kitchen made for cooking for one. Now, in the new place, we have a larger kitchen space that’s perfect for cooking for two, or three, or four. We can have people over for dinner! To sit at a table, instead of the floor! Our place is rented and is a new build style flat. The kitchen is pretty standard – beige laminate ‘wood’ doors and kickboards. It’s not that offensive. I’ve seen worse, but we really wanted to do something a little different. For years I’ve dreamed of pegboard something in my home. Pegboard anything! The kitchen seemed the perfect space to try out this project.

My original plan was to take off all the doors and drawer fronts and replace them with brand new pegboard doors made by gluing pegboard to mdf. This plan was quickly thrown out the window when we didn’t have anywhere to store the original cabinet doors. So, using a whole heap of command strips and our new handles (made from painted pine) we simply stuck the pegboard to the cabinet fronts. This means they will be completely removable when we move out. For some of the kickboard and cabinet surrounds I’ve covered them with removable white vinyl.

I really wasn’t sure how I would feel about seeing the original laminate cupboards every time I opened one but I really love the contrast!

I gave our under counter nook a curtain so we can hide our bin and recycling.

Our decision to keep two of the doors with the original frontage was down to the command strips refusing to stick to the extractor cover and the other door not able to open due to the added layer of pegboard making it too thick. I’m actually really pleased that this happened as looking at it now, it might have been a bit much with EVERYTHING covered in white vinyl and white pegboard.

It’s not perfect, there are wonky bits here and there but I do love my new pegboard kitchen!

I’ve been dreaming of having a triangle shelf in my home for so long now, thanks to . I’m also obsessed with beautiful lifestyle shop General Store in California and their amazing wooden triangular displays.

Finally, my dream has come true (thanks to furniture maker boyfriend!) and we now have this beautiful shelf in the living area. It’s  made from American oak and I think it’s my favourite part of the room. The spaces are starting to come together now as we finish all the little jobs and fill the empty spaces.

Since we moved into the new flat, our clothes have been living in bin bags on the floor. Such glamour! As well as building most of the furniture for our home, John has also built us a beautiful clothing rail made entirely from found materials. I’ve been daydreaming for months about clothing rails on .  I’ve never been a fan of the wardrobe. They’re so overbearing and take up most of the space in a bedroom. Unless you live in a palace of course. I don’t. I live in a 1 bedroom flat in London, so screw you palace dwellers!

The rail is made from found materials. The wood is solid oak, which John found in an alley behind his work. The metal pole is also a find, the result of a rummage in an old cupboard.

The bedroom makeover is far from finished. We’ve got plans for storage shelving above the rail and lots of other things to make best use of the small space. Excuse the poor light in these photos, a home tour with proper photographs will be coming soon!