where the OS magic happens!!!!

Pooky

Wow, I used to love this thread too - my old kitchen is on here somewhere but we've moved since then. This is my lovely kitchen I designed and fitted with my Dad last year......I thought the oak parquet flooring would look amazing, I just underestimated how much work laying it, filling it, sanding it and varnishing it would be wit 5 cats!!! The old kitchen was 5 units with a built in oven and hardly any workspace and all crammed into one corner - this new layout gives us loads of room to cook, eat, socialise and generally enjoy it. I'm very pleased with it - even a year on it all works just as I need it to.









The dresser started off a nasty brown/orange pine but I sanded and filled and painted and waxed until it was just how I wanted it.

ArtDecoGirly

Pooky, where did you get your hooks with the rooster from? Looking for more country style rooster things!

Pooky

The wooden shelf/hooks were a boot fair find for £1. The wire rooster was from sainsbugs last year

ArtDecoGirly

Pooky wrote: »

The wooden shelf/hooks were a boot fair find for £1. The wire rooster was from sainsbugs last year

Thanks! Lovely kitchen. In fact all the ones I've seen are lovely! Feeling inspired to do more with my own :j

bellaquidsin

I just love looking at these kitchens (nosey I suppose) please can we have some more.


I'm not very techno savvy but I'll have a word with the men in my life and see if I can get a picture up for you.


Bella.

Caterina

WOOOOOOOWWWWW!!! Pooky can I have your kitchen please? You can have my shiny brand new one in exchange. I so love your kitchen, it looks like a dream, I have serious kitchen envy, in the best sense of course.

I am particularly interested in your beautiful dresser, it looks like one of those gorgeous Neptune ones, how did you do it?

Will post pics of my new kitchen once it is finished. Am trying to love it but I miss my old one so much that when the old doors (which we salvaged) were hung on the new units, I saw them and started crying. I miss my old kitchen more than words can describe. People tell me "it will all be worth in the end" and I go yeh yeh but inside me I am heartbroken. 20 years of life in that old kitchen, memories of family and children, all wiped out by DH's desire for renovation. And yes before you asked, I had agreed (reluctantly). But all I wanted was a lick of paint and a new cooker.

As they say, it will all be worth in the end, the new one is more functional, in better materials, we salvaged the doors, I have a lovely vintage industrial pendant light (the only thing I really love in the new kitchen), but oh dear me, if I could have a magic wand I would turn time back to my draughty, grubby old kitchen with its herbs hanging down from the rack, the photos of my two naked babies at 8 weeks old, curled and greasy from years of being stuck into one of the cupboard doors, the dark red Lino floor and all my memories.

As they all say, it will be all worth in the end. They must be right. You know how the saying goes, "hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong".

moneyistooshorttomention

Ah ha - found this thread again.

I'm now planning my new kitchen - at last - should be getting it next year (fingers crossed). Will see what I can learn from it....

Caterina

Mitstm I remember that last post, how I cried for my old kitchen! I am getting used to my new one after 2 years, I have almost recreated the atmosphere of my old one and exorcised the nepharious presence of the rip-off barstewards cowboy builders who built it. We had to call two more lots of electricians, a new plumber to fix the carp that the original one left and there are still imperfections popping up which irritate me, but now it is just about "my" kitchen again.

Good luck with planning your kitchen, just one word of caution: make sure your builders are extremely well recommended and trustworthy!

moneyistooshorttomention

Thankfully - I don't have to do anything electrical basically in the new kitchen. I had the electrics in the house as a whole modernised when I bought it - so I've got powerpoints anywhere I might conceivably want them in the kitchen (as I had some put in where I don't actually need them at the moment - because of not being sure how my new kitchen will be in style). So I've had some "redundant" powerpoints for the last couple of years - as I thought ahead on that one.

The reliable workmen - errrm...there's the thing. You may have heard of the "Pembrokeshire Promise". Yep. .....I'm in that area of the country. I've gone from knowing workmen will turn up as promised and pretty much taking that for granted to having had quite a few "Pembrokeshire Promises" myself by now:mad:. Hence I'm looking to a bigger nationwide firm (not B & Q!) to do this for me - as I figure they might have got their workmen sorted out to act more normally/be more normal standard and, if not, there's a "chain of command" with the ones at the top probably not living in this area:) that I could go to if "heads need to roll".

I'm planning on readymade units - rather than self-assembly ones too. I remember the cheapie self-assembly kitchen my father did in my last house and the way the firm didn't supply all necessary bits/supplied the wrong bits/etc. That was rather compounded by my father selecting a wrong size unit for one part of the kitchen (so I had it ripped out and bought the correct size instead) and the way he hadnt done "time and motion" on which side cupboard door handles should be for greatest ease of use (note to self - must remember to keep an eye on that point with the new units). It's German ones I have in mind - so, hopefully, I've minimised the chances of problems between that fact and them being ready-assembled.

Pooky

Forgot I posted my kitchen on here, was quite a shock when I just scrolled through and thought "oh someone's got a kitchen just like mine"!!