Nicki Chapman’s West London property is an inside designer’s dream. Primarily based in West London, the Escape to the Nation star bought an Edwardian property in 2007 and has since frolicked renovating it.
Amongst her ongoing house tasks, Nicki, 58, set to work on the kitchen final 12 months, and to say it is beautiful can be an understatement. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the presenter gave followers a glimpse of the open-plan area as she celebrated pancake day.
Giving her followers a peek contained in the all-white room, followers spied Nicki’s pale gray cabinets, and illuminating skylights. Above the eggshell counters, the partitions have been lined with black shiny cabinets and crammed with numerous cookbooks and ornaments too.
One in all Nicki’s favorite areas in her home, it was simply final 12 months that she determined to replace the kitchen and eating space. “I am keen on my ethereal open-plan kitchen but it surely’s 16 years previous so I am changing it,” she defined to The Instances.
“I am having new models, swapping tiles for parquet flooring, and I am stealing a little bit of the kitchen so I can set up a walk-in pantry and a bigger utility room. Thoughts you, I am a ineffective prepare dinner.”
After transferring into the property in 2007, Nicki and her husband of 25 years – Dave ‘Shacky’ Shackleton – undertook an enormous renovation. “Our house was initially two flats, however we purchased it simply because the developer was placing it again into one home. We put quite a lot of effort and time into fully redoing the home,” she stated in 2022.
“Whether or not it is portray the hallway or ending the backyard, there’s all the time one undertaking happening annually.”
Later, when The Instances requested how a lot work she and Dave had executed on the home general, Nicki replied: “We gutted it. A builder was already doing it up and had secured planning permission to transform it from two flats again right into a home.
© DAVE M. BENETT/GETTY IMAGES“We had RSJs [rolled steel joists] put in, took the again off and added a kitchen extension, which opens on to the backyard. We additionally constructed on the sides and put in en suites. Nothing of the unique home stays, other than the staircase.”
Among the many new additions to her house, Nicki has revealed that she’s obtained her very personal “panic room”, which is actually a wood chest with cupboard space. “We have got hen meals, cushions and blankets inside,” she quipped in an interview. “I name it the panic room as a result of if something ever occurred, we’d dive into it.”
