19.12.2011
This year, Magnet got involved with the fantastic Noel’s Christmas Presents TV programme to donate a kitchen to Di Bradley.
She was nominated by her daughter Kim for the continuing work running a local pub in Weston-Super-Mare which caters to the whole community.
Di provides services such as a lending library and computer classes for elderly people so they can email friends and family easily. She also arranged for her neighbours to meet and eat in the pub together, rather than eating their ‘Meals on Wheels’ alone in their homes.
Kim knows how much her mum enjoys helping the local community and told the programme how her old kitchen had become a little worn and could benefit from a little sprucing up.
With all her hard work, Di definitely deserved her brand new cream Hatfield kitchen from Magnet, complete with beautiful Amtico flooring and a state of the art range cooker.
We hope she’ll enjoy using it and continue cooking up her delicious lunches.
12.12.2011
Magnet has been getting in the festive spirit with Anna Ryder Richardson!
Last week we met with the UK media to let them in on the exciting projects that Anna’s been working on…
We set her the ultimate challenge of creating three very different kitchens, to suit very different needs, all using our brand new Savannah kitchen. We want to show you that a great kitchen catered to your own individual style and uses can be easily achieved by adding some simple touches – and it won’t bust your budget!
Anna started by creating a Rustic Retreat that finds itself perfectly placed at the heart of a family home. With a simple colour scheme that can be easily updated, the focus here is on practicality – using jars to make your ingredients the key accessory and rustic pots to complement the units and make them a feature in themselves.
The Oriental Zen kitchen was designed for those of you who want to leave the busy working day at the door, and relax with a quick, healthy meal in soothing surroundings. Turquoise accessories brighten up the slate grey worktop and create a contrast with the cream units. Vibrant colour pops can also come courtesy of plants and accessories, and can be changed with your mood thanks to the neutral paint scheme.
For a party kitchen take the Savannah and add vibrant colour. Anna chose Mojito green accessories such as jugs, tumblers and of course plenty of limes! Colour has even been injected into the worktop with the stunning Aubergine Gloss, and this can be mirrored with matching accessories such as fruit bowls and vases. Just add people for the party to begin.
Anna created all three of these kitchens and we have the videos to prove that it really is as easy as it sounds to get your own personal style out of this great range.
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02.12.2011
You May Be Ready For Christmas, But Is Your Kitchen…?
With only a few weeks left before the big day arrives, you may have completed all your Christmas shopping, bought all your key ingredients to get you through the festive season, but have you kitted out your kitchen with all these Christmas kitchen essentials?
Cooking is fun, but as we all know, it can get messy, so make sure you get yourself an over-the-top festive apron – a must-have for getting through the cooking without leaving a spec of flour down your front.
Moving onto the most important guest, the turkey! To keep the turkey as flavoursome and succulent as possible, a glazed terracotta roaster is not to be done without this Christmas Day, and a stainless steel spiked meat dish to display it proudly in the middle of the table.
Although stuffed to the brim with turkey and all the trimmings, no dinner finishes without a freshly made Christmas Pudding, which is where Christmas pudding moulds come in, making it so easy to perfect the rounded Christmas Pudding.
And no house is complete without the smell of mulled wine diffusing throughout the rooms, so if you are not a wine making whizz, investing in a mulled wine Reed Diffusers may be the answer you are looking for.