It’s tough saying goodbye to a kitchen – even one with a rusty bin

It was orange. It had a tiny fridge. But that old kitchen was at the heart of family lifeAlmost 20 years ago I did something intensely stupid. I agreed to a kitchen design which included a boxed-in area for our existing fridge. It meant that, as the years passed, the only fridge we could have was a relatively small one which could fit that space. It didn’t matter that we soon became a family of three and then four; that the house could be crowded with children’s friends who also need