Kitchen Regrets

[Sticks.]

anonymous said:

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I had one. It was expensive to run and unreliable.

Back to kitchens, I think I'd be reluctant to have a high level cooker/microwave, just because a hot spillage cold be very nasty.

[RC1807]

Wish we'd have fitted
2nd oven
Wine fridge
Quooker tap
Waste disposal

Other than that, it's fine

[sato]

Starting to do some research for my own kitchen.
I have a rough idea of the style I'm after but am struggling to see past the current layout.

I have a favour to ask, if anyone has any pre-installation drawings (either artist impression or more schematic stuff) could you post them with photos of the finished article?

[mcg_]

sato said:

Starting to do some research for my own kitchen.
I have a rough idea of the style I'm after but am struggling to see past the current layout.

I have a favour to ask, if anyone has any pre-installation drawings (either artist impression or more schematic stuff) could you post them with photos of the finished article?

This is mine. It can be difficult to get an idea from the pictures they give you (Magnet ours was).

We waited until the kitchen was fitted to chose tiles. Pictures are great, hard to take a good ones with a phone.









And before

[B17NNS]

mcg_ said:

That's lovely

[Risotto]

sato said:

I have a favour to ask, if anyone has any pre-installation drawings (either artist impression or more schematic stuff) could you post them with photos of the finished article?

This was the last one I did. It was planned out online with Ikea's 3D Kitchen Planner.

Edited by Risotto on Friday 22 September 18:01

[MellowshipSlinky]

If your kitchen is open plan or doubles up as the hub of the house with comfy settees etc, get the quietest dishwasher you can find.

[Gad-Westy]

This is our's. Before photos were the day we moved in to the house (excuse the mess!). House was horribly dated and falling to bits (this whole floor bounced alarmingly for a while!). So this room was a stripped right back. Floors ripped up. New joists to level it all (see the step there on original floor). New floor. Rewired and re-plumbed. New windows, doors and plaster before I could even start on kitchen. This took about a year on and off! Tough to fit around 2 kids. Worth it though. It's a great space now.

I have some renders somewhere from Solidworks. Spent months moving stuff around, planning every joint, socket, pipe routing etc. A bit over the top but it meant no nasty suprises.

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Edited by Gad-Westy on Saturday 23 September 08:54

[spants]

No regrets on anything with ours except for maybe a couple of plug sockets for lighting in the corners. There were a number of of things that we almost didn't do but glad that we did...

1) The main one was lighting. I thought that it would be good to use led strips and planned this at three levels - top, middle and bottom (only under the peninsular). I used these controllers: https://www.dresden-elektronik.de/funktechnik/solu... Fully Hue compatible and remember the settings if you power it down. You can get them from Amazon with cheap 5m led strips that are RGB and White leds. (Hue didnt make them in that length).

2) As the pipes were being moved, I fitted a water meter for my home automation.....

3) We removed the wall and door to open up into the dining room.

4) Travertine floor tiles have been excellent - especially as we have dogs.

5) The Granite worktops are great - survived glasses falling out of the one display cabinet. We use a daily cleaner for it.

6) I like the 'breaks' next to the cooker. They are often missed out by planners.

We spend a lot of time in the kitchen (and also when we have parties) - the lighting can be set to sound-to-light and other modes.

The kitchen layout was designed by us and is made by www.diy-kitchens.com. Our installer (a howdens supplier) thought the quality was much better.

We used the graph paper on the diy-kitchens site with the cutouts for units to do the planning.

We didnt get around to changing the brown UPC glazing just yet. Thats next on the list (or maybe painting/covering?).

We sold the old kitchen on ebay to a Landlord - he used the old cabinets in a rental that got trashed.

Edited by spants on Saturday 23 September 05:13

Edited by spants on Saturday 23 September 05:15

[Pica-Pica]

At our previous house, I built our units myself. We hated wall units, so none of those. I had no doors, just open shelves below the work tops. It was a bone of contention between my wife and I. That is, until we came to sell, and everyone loved the kitchen design. Thankfully, with modern cooking programmes, all the chefs have open shelves. Now I have got to start on the current house!
Anyone any experience of Fisher and Paykel fridge freezers?

[Pheo]

You built all the cabinets? From scratch? Impressive. Would like to learn cabinetry at some point!

Thanks for the Hue led strip tip above that’s much cheaper for a long run.