Quite possibly the best name ever for an interior design firm. HONKY. Sounds like Christopher Dezille, who started this firm, enjoys what he does and has fun with it. He’s based in London, and his portfolio is so chock-full of design goodness that I had a REALLY tough time deciding what photos to use. There’s modern, mid-century, contemporary, glam…a little bit of everything. He has designed some of the most incredible kitchens I’ve ever seen. Check out his site for much more than what I’ve posted below.

This blog chronicles my entire kitchen renovation from start to finish. Greentea Design has provided me with their solid wood kitchen cabinets, and I’m taking care of the rest.

If you’d like to be brought up to date, check out my kitchen remodel blog for an archive of previous posts. In this post I will show you sketches of the cabinets I chose, what my cabinets cost, and the process involved with ordering kitchen cabinets from Greentea.

In my last post I showed some of the sketches Greentea created to demonstrate how my kitchen will look. Here is one for a recap.

I thought I would show the sketches that were designed by Greentea that include the dimensions of each cabinet ordered for my new kitchen. This first one is the base cabinet that will be next to the fridge. I love it because Mike suggested instead of having 3 drawers the same size, that the drawer on the left be 3 smaller drawers for take out menus, chopsticks etc. The cost of this cabinet is $1200.

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I FINALLY got around to purchasing a domain name for the blog. We are now officially https://www.desiretoinspire.net. If you’ve got us in your blogroll and don’t mind changing the link, please do. The blogspot address will still work anyway. Now if I can just make a day have at least 30 hours, I’ll be all set.

I realized it’s been a while since I posted about work I’ve done to the house or results of thrifting trips. That’s because I’ve been so busy shopping and planning my kitchen renovation that I haven’t had time to do anything else. I have been trying to work on redoing my stairs, but it’s always a work in progress so no photos yet. I went looking for appliances on Friday since I had the day off, and went to a couple of my favourite antique shops since I was close by. There wasn’t much that caught my eye, but at Found Design, an awesome mid-century shop, I picked up a really cute wooden cat (can’t remember who the owner said makes it) and a gorgeous piece of fabric. Kitchen curtains perhaps??

I adore wallpaper. I am determined to wallpaper at least one space in my house, probably a bathroom (or both). Turns out 2Modern carries wallpaper from designers such as Fern Living, Graham & Brown and Olli & Lime. When it’s time for me to renovate my bathrooms, how would I ever be able to choose one??!! Here are some of my favourites.