{"id":22635,"date":"2017-02-23T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=22635"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:34:34","slug":"its-actually-a-kitchen-by-itself-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=22635","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s actually a kitchen by itself\u201d &#8211; revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/livingroom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Livingroom_crop_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Phil, Sam and Krystle in Forest Hill &#8211; July 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Four years ago <a href=\"\/?p=12914\">we watched Krystle and Sam<\/a> delight in their new flat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/krystlekitchen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12926\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/krystle1.jpg\" alt=\"Krystle\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s actually a kitchen by itself&#8221; exclaimed the delightful Krystle as she stood in the 1000 sq ft Forest Hill ground floor flat and looked around her at the space.\u00a0\u201cWe could put a table in here\u201d said Sam<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Last night\u00a0came the chance to catch up with Sam and Krystle, now married, and see how they settled in over the last four years. Did they knock the kitchen wall down to create an open plan space? No.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dresser.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dresser_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or did they put a table in the kitchen and use it as a separate room taking advantage of the space offered? No, they added a Welsh dresser and put\u00a0the dining table in the conservatory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dining.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dining_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My obsession with flat\u00a0layouts ought not to mask their most important news as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/krystleclara.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22646 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/KrystleClara_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A smile to launch a thousand ships<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A couple of stills from the wedding album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bride.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22668 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bride_crop_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wedding_grounds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22671 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wedding_grounds_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And finally . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dawsonsheights.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22675 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DawsonsHeights_th.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">. . . could that be <a href=\"\/?p=3141\">Dawson&#8217;s Heights<\/a> hidden by the trees? I wonder. Click the photo to zoom out. Yes it is, seen from the grounds of the Horniman Museum nearby.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Series 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kirstie and Phil are back, dealing with ever-changing property markets<\/p>\n<p><strong>Episode 20 &#8211; South West London Revisit 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In London, Phil Spencer catches up with Krystle and Sam, who wanted a fun party pad near the river, and Jason and Jaye, who found Clapham beyond their budget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/location-location-location\/on-demand\/59410-020\">https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/location-location-location\/on-demand\/59410-020<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil, Sam and Krystle in Forest Hill &#8211; July 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,12,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-design","category-kitchens","category-reviews","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22635"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29584,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635\/revisions\/29584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}