What do you think of my kitchen design?

jonnywells

no getting someone to fit it, had a fitter around last night who said they would see how much howdens would do it for, ikea is coming to about 1400 but that's just the units, plinths and end panels

Louisa_2

Hi Jonny

I'm after the same fridge/freezer as you, we've hunted around a bit but the price you've got at £909 looks quite good. Could you tell me where that's from? If it's a chain then fingers crossed we could get the same deal.

Thanks

Louisa

vkusuman

Hi Jonny,
did you get your quote for the Howdens kitchen?

All,
how is Howden's compared with the others like Ikea, Wickes etc on price and quality. I have seen many people putting Howdens kitchens when I was looking for houses, but wasnt sure about their competitiveness - pricewise..

Thanks
Varas

latecomer

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jonnywells

Righty mk6043 lol

This was a design someone drew up for me and i have now converted to my most used program ever "Ikea Home Planner FY10"

jonnywells

no comments about this 1 them?

majjie

Sorry Jonny ... frantically busy at the moment. Major work on my website last week.

No - I don't like this one - but, like I said, five different designers - five different plans.

Didn't you say the door on the radiator wall was to the dining room? So, coming in from the dining room - you open the kitchen door - and walk slap bang into the side of the fridge-freezer. It's not as bad as it would be with the door opening the other way ... but I still don't like it. And is your back door half glass, like many are? If so, then having that fridge-freezer there is going to block any light coming from it and look very cramped as you come in.

It would also irritate me, having to crawl under the worktop overhang to get at the storage under there. Doesn't mean it would irritate you though.

It certainly crams a lot of kitchen into the space.

(If it's still a gas hob, I think you'd run into trouble with most gas engineers with that wall unit arrangement too ... as I said before)

Majjie

jonnywells

Thanks for that majjie, this is my g/f design with her family messing around with it

The dinning room door opens into the dinning room not the kitchen. The back door is a wood door with only a small glass bit at the top. My current fridge is where i can put the American, i have just lost a 30cm unit on the end to fit it in. Cant see it being any darker as American is only a tiny bit taller than a standard fridge.

The sitting worktop bit will prob only be used to store rarely used stuff. Will be more of a sitting area.

Yes the gas hob still going in, i asked my installer about this and he has not got a problem putting it there (same as my current setup)

majjie

Whichever way the dining room door opens - the side of the fridge-freezer is still straight in front of you - and I wouldn't like the fact that it makes the kitchen feel cramped.

Those units under the overhang are quite a high proportion of your storage space ... and the wall units above are going to be pretty difficult to reach too.

But, it's your kitchen ... you can do what you like with it!

vansboy

Loose the wine rack, make units on the sides of cooker SLIGHTLY wider & make right hand wall unit same size as these. Probably EVERY unit in the place could be equal width, that way.

That'll make it less tight by doors & fridge.

VB