This Candy-Colored London Kitchen Will Totally Cheer You Up

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
published Jun 3, 2014
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When Faith and I saw this kitchen last week on Apartment Therapy, we both immediately chatted each other to say how much we loved it. Decorated in an array of pretty pastels, it’s one of the cheeriest kitchens we’ve seen lately.

(Image credit: Rebecca Bond)

London-based Gigi Eligoloff, the owner, didn’t initially intend to have such a colorful, mix-and-match kitchen style, but when the money she’d socked away for her kitchen fund was stolen, it forced her to find another way to set up her kitchen. As Apartment Therapy writes in their recent House Tour:

…she got straight onto Gumtree (UK’s answer to Craiglist) and tracked down another kitchen at a fraction of the price. Terrified of losing out and fed up with having no place to cook, she piled the family into the car and drove straight round to the seller’s house to strike a deal. A couple of hours later, she was proud owner of a six-year-old kitchen and Rangemaster stove.

Okay, so it wasn’t the dream kitchen from her Pinterest board, but Gigi’s home is a great example of how repurposed secondhand and vintage pieces can beat brand new, shiny ones hands down.

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Ah, those floor tiles. Love, love, love. They’re actually these vinyl floor tiles from Harvey Maria.

(Image credit: Rebecca Bond)

The Rangemaster stove (“Britain’s best loved range cooker brand,” according to the website) has so much character, too.

(Image credit: Rebecca Bond)
(Image credit: Rebecca Bond)

What a lovely space, don’t you think? Don’t miss the rest of Gigi’s kitchen and her cottage home tour:

Read More → Gigi’s Candy-Colored London Cottage at Apartment Therapy