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07 Jun 16

Budget kitchen ideas and vintage style on a shoe string

Vintage style kitchen by interior designer sarah Mitchenall

In this short video I have a poke around the kitchen of Sarah Mitchenall, the winner of The Great Interior Design Challenge, and interior designer at Black Parrots Studio. Now we all know Sarah is a designer with style oozing from every pore, but she’s also a queen of setting the style on a shoestring. During her own home renovation she was on a super tight budget so when it came to the interior design of her own kitchen she was resourceful but the look isn’t comprimised. Check out her great ideas to steal, and no matter what your spend is, what I love about this kitchen is it just oozes vintage style.

 

 

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Jessie on 14.12.16

I have been hunting high and low for those exact tiles after I saw them used in a restaurant. Where are they from?! I’d be forever grateful if anybody knew the answer x

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