Do kitchen and bathroom designers sometimes play it too safe when it comes to the architecture of the space?

Is putting a farmhouse-style kitchen in a quaint cottage - or indeed an ultra-contemporary kitchen in a brand new apartment - the path of least resistance?

Is it a designer’s job to challenge these kind of conventions and produce the project that will come up with something that meets the client’s brief but also surprises them, in the best possible way, with something unexpected?

This all came out of a blog written by designer Keith Myers, from The Myers Touch in Winchester. In it he challenges this idea of ‘Safe Design’ and, put simply, asks whether or not your kitchen should match your house.

So we sat down with Keith to find out more about what he feels ‘safe design’ is, and I roped in another great designer Graham Robinson from Halcyon Interiors based in Wigmore Street in London to get his perspective.

You can get in touch with host Andy Davies via email andrewdavies@taylistmedia.com

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Welcome to Episode 3 or Season 2 of the Kitchen & Bathrooms Design Podcast from Taylist Media.

The ease of the lockdown is turning many people in the kitchen and bathroom retail sector towards  reopening their showrooms and, with that in mind, we thought it was a great time to put out this episode all about showroom design.

Specifically, we’re looking at showroom design that really works not just as a fantastic gallery for products and design, but also as means to pulls in the customer and inspire them to seriously talk about getting you to do their project.

We’ve got some great guests together to talk about this…

Angus Kerr, sales director of The Bathroom Company in Scotland, Jim Gibson, the managing director of Stone & Chrome in Surrey and all the way from Auckland, New Zealand,  Xanthe Whiteley, retail experience designer for Fisher & Paykel 

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Changes in society are blurring the lines between how we live, work and enjoy leisure time and this will become a major driver of kitchen and bathroom design trends.

The ‘Blurred Spaces’ concept says that technology and changing habits mean that design must accommodate all aspects of our lives as they merge into one. 

Other drivers such as an ageing population, concern for the environment and technology are all playing a big part in this blurring and it is affecting the traditional lines many manufacturers have between residential and commercial product development.

In this episode we talk to Nina Bailey, the UK design manager for Formica about this ‘Blurred Spaces’ concept and what it might mean for design going forward.

LINKS

Tense by Panter Tourron

https://pantertourron.com/work/tense/

Hampshire House by Niall McLaughlin

http://www.niallmclaughlin.com/projects/hampshire-house/

Formica Blurred Spaces webinar

https://www.formica.com/en-gb/articles/trends/blurred-spaces-webinar

The kbbreview Podcast

https://kbbrpod.kbbreview.com/

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