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  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    That's lovely nodwah. We have a wooden worktop (butchers block effect I think it's called) in our holiday flat, and I do like it now I've got used to it. Actually marble and granite are so common nowadays that I think wood is more individual!

    Fab view from your window - where are you?
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • nodwah
    nodwah Posts: 1,742 Forumite
    Hi, ours is the butchers block type in beech . It has darkened with use and oiling so it's away from the colour of the doors now.
    I do like it a bit but I'm so scared to put anything down on it in case it marks- it hopeless!

    ps we live in the burbs of Glasgow but right on the edge of farmland - won't be for long tho' developers in "our" field :grr:
    Just call me Nodwah the thread killer
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    I have ours covered in those glass surface protector/chopping board things, everywhere I might put something down! Of course this means that there isn't much of the worktop on show, but at least it isn't getting damaged :D.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • zippychick
    zippychick Posts: 9,334 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Good grief, there are some seriously stylish kitchens here! My kitchen is new a few years ago , i may post up pics later (but I didn't cook so much when I did design/pick it, so I wonder how different it would be now!)
    A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men :cool:
    Norn Iron club member #380

  • Gigervamp
    Gigervamp Posts: 6,583 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    nodwah wrote: »
    Hi, ours is the butchers block type in beech . It has darkened with use and oiling so it's away from the colour of the doors now.
    I do like it a bit but I'm so scared to put anything down on it in case it marks- it hopeless!

    I often put hot pans on my wooden worktop and it's never marked it. The only problem I find with mine, is that the area around the sink gets mouldy even though I'm careful to wipe the water off it straight away. But every now and then, I give it a sanding down and re-oil it.
  • brighthair
    brighthair Posts: 646 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    scuse mess :-)

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  • pollyskettle
    pollyskettle Posts: 2,163 Forumite
    edited 20 May 2010 at 10:23PM
    Mine is part way done - we still have the work surface and cupboards to sort out - but this is it so far:

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    "A cat can have kittens in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits." - Mary Cooper
    "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful" - William Morris
    Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
  • pawpurrs
    pawpurrs Posts: 3,910 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Am on my third kitchen now since this thread started, am just planning my new kitchen, am having a hand built kitchen, with a range cooker (everhot) sooooooooo excited!
    Pawpurrs x ;)
  • Blairweech
    Blairweech Posts: 1,379 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Off topic, but Pawpurrs - is that the electric range cooker? I would be keen to know how you get on with it if it is, as I was looking into one of those and they seemed quite good
    We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment
  • pawpurrs
    pawpurrs Posts: 3,910 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Sorry yes it is, ordered one today, will start a thread to see if there are any other everhotters out there.
    Pawpurrs x ;)
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