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THE YOUNG KITCHEN
She loves colourful and bright things.
Her clothes, bags and accessories are
every colour under the sun. When you
meet Julie her love of life is infectious.
And although the small Belgian woman
loves gaudy things, her kitchen is well
thought out and offers many practical
applications.
Perhapsthat’sbecausesomeofherfriends
work in the kitchen branch. ‘At first, it
got on my nerves that everyone wanted
to give me tips,’ she admits. ‘I wanted a
kitchen to suitmy personal taste.’ But her
best friendKaatje didn’t give up and took
her to different kitchen showrooms. She
drew her attention to the inner values of
a kitchen.
When Julie moved out of her parents’
house, she already had an idea of what
her kitchen should be like. ‘I wanted an
open-plan kitchen, at least that’s what
I thought when I first started looking for
a flat. And I wanted it to be colourful.’
But then she found this flat with its fan-
tastic layout in an ideal location, close to
the centre.There wasn’t enough space for
an open-plan kitchen but Julie wouldn’t
swap her kitchen for any other in the
world. ‘Everything’s exactlywhere I need
it. Everything’s so practical. I feel really
good when I’m cooking. So it doesn’t
matter anymore whether my kitchen’s
openplanor not.What’smost important
is how I feel when I’m preparing food.’
At the end of the day, she decided not
‘Everything’s so practical.
It makes me feel really good when I’m
cooking and that’s what counts most.’
THE RIGHT HOME FOR ME
Julie lives close to the centre so she
can go shopping on her bike.
JULIE CORNU
She loves colourful and bright things.
But her kitchen is very practical, too.
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