unior interior designers often have difficulty imagining themselves in the shoes of their clients. Certainly, London is highly

diverse, and people from different cultures and cuisine heritage regions will use kitchens in different ways. But in my view the interior design team needs to lay out what I call “use cases” to guarantee the most appropriate kitchen design. For example, the interior design professional should ask their client whether children will ever be in or near the kitchen? Should child-proofing of dangerous appliances be made a priority? Alternatively, some London residences need to feature panic buttons for older relatives – the kitchen can be a great place to install such a system. Does the kitchen need to serve as overflow for larger gatherings or garden parties? And will it be a vegetarian kitchen, or one that serves only Muslim-approved foods, for example? Today’s modern London interior design professional needs to understand all these possibilities and more