Franke Blog

Donna Casey, award-winning Interior Designer at thatssocool offers some expert advice on how to introduce green into a kitchen design.

The newly popular Cottagecore kitchen design trend lets you embrace a home aesthetic with a cosy country feel. The Cottagecore trend reflects country-style theming but combined in a stylised way with contemporary elements to create an eclectic mix of traditional style and modern functionality.

Matt Black is a big trend in the kitchen, delivering striking, sophisticated and timeless design with the colour constantly rising in popularity over the last few years in our homes. It’s safe to assume that black sinks and taps are more than just a passing trend for the kitchen.

Disposing of your food waste in an eco- and odour-friendly way can help to transform your kitchen into a cleaner and more enjoyable space. Installing a waste disposal unit (WDU) allows you to do just that. Here, we’ll share some of the ways your kitchen can benefit from a WDU and how having one will give you a more environmentally-friendly and super-easy way of disposing of your food waste.

You’ve probably noticed that there are increasingly more people who want to live healthier lives as well as be eco-friendly.

Our customers tell us this change in lifestyle also affects their choice of products. At Franke, we take this seriously and are committed to creating innovative products and integrated solutions that are not only environmental friendly, but complement their lifestyle.  

With increasingly home-centred living and working, products which support good hygiene, sustainability and ease of use take on a new importance for us. Having a touch-free tap in your kitchen can deliver a range of benefits from easy handwashing to prepping food and filling pots and pans, while at the same time reducing water and energy consumption.

Learn how you can stay hydrated and healthy while spending more time at home by following Franke’s four easy tips for drinking more water.

Keep your stainless steel sink looking like new with Franke’s two step approach to daily and weekly cleaning.

Handwashing is a bigger part of our everyday life than ever before and now there are ways to encourage good hand hygiene, in a practical and stylish way by adding in a soap dispenser to your sink space.

As we become aware of the alarming impact that plastic is having on our planet, finding ways we can change our behaviour has become more important than ever. Every day, millions of plastic bottles are littered, landfilled or incinerated. So, with more and more people looking to ‘do their bit’, we’ve come up with four easy ways you can be greener in the kitchen to help the environment – from reducing plastic usage to lowering your carbon footprint.