The Hampstead Kitchen launches interior offshoot in Norfolk |
Most of us will have areas of our home that annoy us - that just don't quite align with our lifestyle.
Perhaps you would like to host more, or gather the family round the table to eat together, but the space doesn't quite work.
Maybe you don't feel like you've got the room to indulge in a creative hobby as often as you'd like.
Or it could be that the layout of your kitchen doesn't flow, making cooking a chore rather than a pleasure.
Saima in her Norfolk kitchen. (Image: Contributed by Saima Khan)
During her career, Saima Khan, creator of The Hampstead Kitchen by Saima, has catered for private dinners in all sorts of homes - from royal residences and The White House to luxury apartments. And her experience of cooking in many different kitchens and creating beautiful places where people can gather and connect by sharing food has given her a huge knowledge of how to make spaces work for the people who live there.
In spring 2025, wanting a change of lifestyle after going through treatment for breast cancer, she relocated from London to north Norfolk.
And when looking for her new home in the county, she knew that she should put how the space would work ahead of the aesthetics. She wanted to have room for a 12-seater table, where she could host and a space where she could truly unplug and do nourishing things such as read or listen to music.
Saima's kitchen. (Image: Contributed by Saima Khan)
'I was looking at space from a very holistic point of view,' she says. 'It has to be functional, it has to work with my lifestyle, it has to work with the fact that I'm hosting a lot more.
'It's a house that has purpose, every chair has a table so you can sit, have a cup of coffee, read,' she continues. 'It's a place to have conversations, to gather, to come together, to sit in any corner and veg out for the whole afternoon.'
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