Contributor: Helen Parker

Helen Parker

deVOL’s easy, cool and understated style is Helen's inspiration and her original approach to our look is quite unique. Over the last thirteen years that Helen has been with the company it has changed from a small Leicestershire business, to a household name. Helen's passion and desire to create a special look for deVOL has proved to be the making of this company.

Helen is a keen blogger and is always actively ensuring deVOL and its image is kept classic, on trend and eclectic. She loves food, unusual ingredients, exploring markets and local restaurants, spending time gardening and watching world movies, blogging about all of her experiences is a way for Helen to note down and share her thoughts and remember the lovely things about all of the things she loves.

Helen’s hobbies are a kind of extension of her work at deVOL, all of the things Helen loves are a part of her job so it makes blogging about them pretty easy and very fun. Helen has become a voice of knowledge when it comes to interiors and stylish living, she has that knack of knowing what’s cool and knowing just how to put that down into words, making her journal posts super popular with our customers and staff members too.

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A Victorian Cottage in Pembridge

A Victorian Cottage in Pembridge

This pretty deVOL ‘Real Shaker’ kitchen is part of a renovation project by Border Oak, makers of fine Oak framed buildings and extensions; this particular…

A Dalston kitchen

A Dalston kitchen

 According to Vogue, The Evening Standard and The Guardian it appears Dalston is now the coolest place in Britain, so we are very happy to be…

A kitchen in Hitchin

A kitchen in Hitchin

> We have just finished fitting this very simple freestanding Shaker kitchen and were very pleased with the finished look. Its a look that…

A Warwickshire Barn

A Warwickshire Barn

Tim and I had a lovely day at this beautifully renovated Barn just on the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, located in a pretty…

little people

little people

  we are always adding interesting and new items to the Mill and this week is no exception. Our lovely girls in the sewing…

A Jelly Baby

A Jelly Baby

Jenny Jelley is leaving tomorrow to have a baby, she has been with us for nearly 10 years on and off but mostly on….

new showroom cupboards

new showroom cupboards

  We have finally got round to photographing our new cupboards here in the Shaker showrooms at the Mill. Mushroom painted cabinets, Silestone worktops,…

Out of Africa

Out of Africa

A  few photographs of our first Shaker kitchen to be installed in Ghana. This amazing farmhouse has been purpose built to sit within the…