Greates Homes: a good kitchen can feed you body and soul

It’s the focus of every family home, quite literally filled with nourishment and vitality, as well as needing to fill a multitude of purposes – so it’s important when buying a new home you get the kitchen right. It might be for entertaining in, it may be for sharing the news of the day over a cup of tea in, and it will most certainly be for keeping your family fed and happy.

Brunswick Square, Hove
You want space? You’ve got it! This majestic Regency property’s accommodation spreads over four floors and offers five bedrooms – the master taking up the entire fourth floor along with its dressing room, en-suite bathroom and west aspect sun terrace. On the ground floor is this impressive kitchen breakfast room, with beautiful high ceilings, period cornicing and stripped wooden floors. The current owner of the house and his interior designer have ensured improvement and upgrading throughout the house, not least in this modern and beautiful kitchen. Fall in love.
>£2,800,000
>Hamptons International
>01273 230230

Dyke Road, Brighton
Rustic charm with contemporary convenience. This kitchen is calling for all the family to sit down and catch up on the events of the day over a succulent stew, a gorgeous roast or even simple fish and chips straight out of the paper. This kitchen is set to be a hub of activity, and with seven bedrooms, three reception rooms and two bathrooms, the whole house is primed to bustle with family, visitors and loved ones. A lifestyle well worth investing in.
>£750,000
>Mishon Mackay
>01273 775588

Beechwood Close, Brighton
When your kitchen is also your family room and it opens straight out onto the garden it means that everybody can help out with dinner and nobody gets left out of the gameplay. This superb 22’4 x 20 kitchen area is awash in light from above and across, making it an easy focal hub no matter what the season or the weather. The rest of the house is spacious, versatile and contemporary, offering five bedrooms, an outside den, a family bathroom, a separate shower room, and lots more.
>£650,000
>Mansell McTaggart
>01273 508955

Tongdean Road, Hove
Imagine you could look out through those arches every time you did the washing up. Nice isn’t it? This kitchen dining room lets the light flood in through huge windows that lead straight out onto a landscaped courtyard garden, perfect for that early evening cocktail or fishfinger sandwich dinner with the kids come Summer time. The rest of the house is equally stunning, offering three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Lush.
>£775,000
>Mishon Welton
>01273 778877

Loder Road, Brighton
If you don’t have the kitchen you want to start off with – build it! This four bedroom Victorian terrace has been extended to create a 26’ kitchen with skylights and French doors that take you straight out into the landscaped garden, for seamless entertaining inside and outside your home. Bright and light, full of space and with all the latest mod cons. Brilliant.
>£470,000
>King & Chasemore
>01273 505141