Welcome back to episode five of How To Buy a Kitchen or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. For this episode, host Lindsay Blair is talking money. With the help of guest this week, Amy Stoddart of AR Interiors, she unravels how much a new bathroom actually costs – and how to get that all-important value for money. Lindsay and Amy share their top tips to effective budgeting, how to balance the books and how to get the bathroom you really want for the money you have...

Need more space? Want to go open plan? Both are indeed possible without the need to undertake the major structural upheaval of an extension project. How? Well, in this episode of How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com, Lindsay Blair talks to Annie Ebenston who is the lead designer at architecture and design company Blakes London to find out. Together, they share how to achieve more space in a kitchen by thinking cleverly about the footprint you...

Welcome back to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. For this episode, host Lindsay Blair tackles the chore many of us would rather avoid – cleaning the bathroom. By thinking about how the bathroom is designed in the first instance, she hopes it can be a room that’s much easier to keep spick and span. With the help of Holly Aspinall at Geberit, Lindsay finds out how the fixtures and fittings you put in your dream bathroom can make it easier...

Welcome back to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. This episode, host Lindsay Blair is chatting all about kitchen lighting with Ally Dowsing-Reynolds of Dowsing & Reynolds. Kitchen lighting sounds simple on the face of it, but there is so much more to it. And if you’ve ever been in a kitchen with bad lighting, where you’ve stood at the worktop and tried to chop only to find your own shadow is blocking the light, or been sat at a dining...

Welcome back to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. To kick start series two, this episode, host Lindsay Blair is talking paint. If you’ve been to your local DIY store and browsed the paint section and quickly become overwhelmed – well you’re not alone! There’s a lot of choice. So Lindsay asks: What is eggshell emulsion anyway? Do you need primer? Is gloss too difficult to use? Do you really need to fork out for samples? And that’s before...

Welcome to this week’s episode of How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom brought to you by Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine and thesethreerooms.com. Your host, as always, is editor Lindsay Blair. This is the final episode of season one and what a series it’s been. We’ve had some amazing guests on and we’ve picked up loads of invaluable nuggets of expert advice. But how to we wrap it all up? Well, with your help of course. We asked you for your kitchen and bathroom dilemmas and you...

Stuck on how to navigate the huge selection of tiles now available? Need to know what type of tile will work best for your kitchen or bathroom? Well, welcome to this week’s episode of How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom brought to you by These Three Rooms. In this instalment, host Lindsay Blair talks to Kevin Lamming, a stone and tile project consultant at Artisans of Devizes about where to start when choosing tiles. So what to expect from this week’s pod? How to navigate that huge selection of...

Welcome to How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom brought to you by Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine and These Three Rooms. Ever wanted to know what an interior designer thinks when they look at a room? Want to know how to be your own interior designer when it comes to planning and creating your own kitchen or bathroom? This episode is for you. Host Lindsay Blair welcomes design due Jen and Mar from Interior Fox to this week’s podcast and aims to find out all of their design secrets....

Welcome to the latest episode of How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom, brought to you by These Three Rooms. Whether you want a cooker hood, downdraft extractor or fancy the latest innovation: the extractor hob, good extraction is key to a kitchen that’s clean and fresh. In this episode host Lindsay Blair talks to Sofia Bune Strandh, chief executive officer at Sola Kitchens about why extraction is so important, why to think about it early in your kitchen design process and what designs are...

In this week’s episode of How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom, brought to you by These Three Rooms, we look at how to decide on the right bathroom storage set up for you; ideas for the types of storage you could have in your bathroom, plus clever little designer tricks you’ll definitely want to bring into your home. Host Lindsay Blair chats to interior designer Charmaine White, founder of The White House Interiors, to uncover the secrets of good bathroom storage and asks the question: can you...

The boiling-water tap – something that’s high up on many kitchen wishlists. In this week’s episode, host Lindsay Blair from thesethreerooms.com and Shehryar Khan from Sheraton Interiors chat about all the things you need to know about the boiling-water tap, including how it can open up new design possibilities in your kitchen layout, whether a boiling-water tap is a safe option for your home and what you need to know to keep it in tip-top condition. Plus, they unveil the cool new features...

Welcome back to How To Buy a Kitchen or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. We’ll say it straight away: the cost of your new kitchen is a bit like how long is a piece of string, but no matter your budget – big or small – or size of your project – big or small – one thing’s for sure: most of us want value for money. To help host Lindsay Blair unravel what exactly good value for money looks like when it comes to costing up kitchens and setting your budget, she chats...

On this week’s episode of How To Buy a Kitchen or Bathroom, host Lindsay Blair gets my head into bathroom design and chatting all things wetrooms with a designer who knows a thing or two about beautiful bathrooms. This week’s guest is interior designer Karen Oliver. In this episode, you’ll find out about the differences between the true wetroom and a more modest wetroom solution, what goes into installation and how that might affect cost, plus, the fun bit: how to make a wetroom bathroom...

Hello and welcome to episode 7 of How To Buy a Kitchen or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. Your host as always is editor Lindsay Blair and, in this episode, she's talking to a very knowledgeable consumer expert, Matt Knight, principal researcher at Which? about the basics of actually buying a kitchen. By the end of this chat, you’ll be armed with information on where to start your search for a kitchen company, what questions to ask, what an agreement looks like...

Hello and welcome back to How To Buy a Kitchen or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com for episode number 6. And it’s a good one. This week, host Lindsay Blair discusses all there is to know about a kitchen island. She is joined by Luke Wedgbury who not only owns Coalville Kitchens in Leicestershire so has a wealth of knowledge about kitchen design, but he’s also just done his own kitchen – complete with an island. Together, they’ll delve into the topic to decipher...

Welcome to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. In episode five, host Lindsay Blair asks: a freestanding bath looks great, but is it practical? To help answer the question, Lindsay talks to Jo Sangster who is the senior bathroom designer at Ripples in London to get the full lowdown on this bath style. They chat about whether a freestanding bath works for family life, how to find the space for one, how to have a shower over it, as well as...

Which worktop is best for my kitchen? Wondering whether to go for marble, wood or one of the other many choices of worktops available? In this episode of How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the new podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com, host Lindsay Blair talks to Rhian Williams who is a senior designer at Harvey Jones at the Worcester showroom on how to choose the right worktops for you. From deciding on which material will go with the style of your kitchen and figuring out if it...

Welcome to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the new podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. In episode three, host Lindsay Blair chats to Louise Ashdown, Head of Design at West One Bathrooms all about making the most of a small bathroom. So if your family bathroom is spatially challenged, uncover how to maximise every single inch to make sure your room is super functional but looks great too. Join Lindsay and Louise as they talk about everything from getting a bath in, storage and...

Hobs: are you team gas or team induction? Welcome to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the new podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. In episode two, host Lindsay Blair tackles a seriously hot debate: whether to choose a gas or induction hob. She chats to Ben Hawkswell, senior designer at Roundhouse in Richmond to reveal everything you need to know before deciding on which hob to choose. From figuring out your cooking style and deciding where to put your hob in the kitchen, to...

Welcome to How To Buy a Kitchen Or Bathroom, the new podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. In episode one, host Lindsay Blair chats to Hayley Robson, creative director of Day True about the ultimate kitchen storage solution – the utility room. In the last few years, spaces like a utility room or boot room have skyrocketed in popularity. Apart from the total satisfaction of a perfectly organised cupboard, who doesn’t want that extra room to put cleaning stuff, laundry appliances,...

Want to know what really goes into planning the perfect kitchen or bathroom? Welcome to How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com. Whether you’re just starting to think about what your dream space could look like, or are right in the thick of planning, or you simply want to know how to confidently buy those all-important fixtures, fittings and finishing touches – from hobs and lighting to a freestanding bath and the right paint – you’re in the right...