Kitchen in a 'home for life'??

rosie-lee

Has anyone out there seen ebony gloss doors with oak worktops?
Really hoping someone has or would gratefully appreciate any thoughts please?

It's towards the end of a long & arduous 2 year self-build bungalow, this is meant to be the fun bit, but to be totally honest I am absolutely shattered, lodging with 2 kids at my lunatic mum & dads (very kind, great people but completely & totally as mad as hatters)and just not enough hours in the day (new build is 2 hr round trip to fit in with school runs and small garage business.

Worktops - All along we planned for desert sand silestone, beigey, light, smooth and plain but I just wasn't really falling in love with any corian, granite etc and so desperately craved a beautiful solid wood oak worktop from www.norfolkoak.com. I may have gone completely mad with such an about turn, but they are ordered and paid for. Help!! Please

OMG:eek:Have I made a terrible mistake and frittered the last scrapings of our money? We had impulsively opted for a very modern (to us) kitchen in ebony gloss/cappuchino doors. Along with a beige polished porcelein floor tile and a warm neutral colour on the walls. Oh and I have set my heart on a nice deep orange as an accent/accessory colour. Brown chenille corner sofa, we felt that leather would mean too many reflective surfaces.

Can modern and traditional be succesfully mixed or after standing in the cold and rain making painstaking decisions over blooming waste pipes and plug sockets, can I really have mucked it all up at the last hurdle?

phill99

Am quoting at the moment for someone who wants black (ebony?) gloss doors on her kitchen. Howdens do them as do wickes.

pimento

All the showroom pictures have the black gloss cabinets with wood worktops and they do look really nice. As long as you keep your tiles/ walls pale and plain it shouldn't be too dark. Have some under unit lighting and perhaps keep your sink/hob steel or white.

It will look great.

iamcornholio

rosie-lee wrote: »

Can modern and traditional be succesfully mixed ..... can I really have mucked it all up at the last hurdle?

It's your house, you are living there .... do what you like

Don't be taken in by the TV programmes which tell you want you can and can't do, and what does and does not go

Colour_Republic

Do you mean black or ebony?

PWS do one in their Second Nature range

shirlgirl2004

Colour_Republic wrote: »

Do you mean black or ebony?

PWS do one in their Second Nature range

I bought their high gloss cabinets in white and the foil started coming off in months. Certainly not durable IMO.

27col

You're paying for it, have what you like and can afford. Just because some self styled guru makes a statement about what goes with what, does not make it so. It is just their opinion and yours is just as valid. If you like what you have done, that is all that matters.