Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Doozergirl

90cm is standard. 720mm on the unit and 150mm of plinth/legs. The rest depends on your worktops. You can make the legs shorter, trim plinth or just have fancy legs and no plinth, but you won't necessarily be able to fit appliances underneath them.

sss555s

Doozergirl wrote: »

90cm is standard. 720mm on the unit and 150mm of plinth/legs. The rest depends on your worktops. You can make the legs shorter, trim plinth or just have fancy legs and no plinth, but you won't necessarily be able to fit appliances underneath them.

... Unless your posh and have built in.

PasturesNew

I'm a midget, so trying to hand-beat yorkshires in an over-sized jug atop a 100cm worktop meant .... big fail... if I'd lived in that house I'd have had to take yorkshires into the garden to beat them.

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

... Unless your posh and have built in.

All this new-fangled built in business .... I find a bit scarey - and, it must be complex to try to replace stuff 10-20-30 years down the line.

I'm worried by ovens at the best of times, the thought of a built in one, without some air space round the outside would mean I'd never dare turn it up very hot

michaels

Worktops should be 40mm thick but the main thing is the depth : 600 is standard but they should be at least 625/30 and preferably 650 - there is nothing worse than appliances sticking out beyond the worktop.

vivatifosi

DH has been at it again:

"Had an e-mail this morning saying I'd won a year's supply of tinned meat.

Turned out it was only Spam."

sss555s

michaels wrote: »

Worktops should be 40mm thick but the main thing is the depth : 600 is standard but they should be at least 625/30 and preferably 650 - there is nothing worse than appliances sticking out beyond the worktop.

Not even zero cat6?

Doozergirl

sss555s wrote: »

... Unless your posh and have built in.

Even built in ones! They're not really built in. Only ovens. And even then you can just pull them out.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm a midget, so trying to hand-beat yorkshires in an over-sized jug atop a 100cm worktop meant .... big fail... if I'd lived in that house I'd have had to take yorkshires into the garden to beat them.

I am 5ft tall and find kitchen worktops an uncomfortable working height, so do most things on the kitchen table as it is lower. Can you do the same?

It is wall cupboards that are pretty useless to me as they are out of reach and I can't abe !!!!!d hopping on and off stools.

Mr Spirit is 6ft 3" so has the top shelves to himself.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

I am 5ft tall and find kitchen worktops an uncomfortable working height, so do most things on the kitchen table as it is lower. Can you do the same?

I've no idea - I've never been in a kitchen large enough to have a table.

And, usually I don't cook in kitchens as (even though I'm sure I can whip up some lovely stuff easily) .... it's all too much faff just for me.

Spirit wrote: »

It is wall cupboards that are pretty useless to me as they are out of reach and I can't abe !!!!!d hopping on and off stools.

Mr Spirit is 6ft 3" so has the top shelves to himself.

I HATE wall cabinets. My perfect kitchen wouldn't have any. They aren't deep/wide enough to keep similar items together an accessible - and anything higher than the bottom shelf is dangerous. The ones I've got here right now are annoying as the bottom shelf isn't quite tall enough to stack two standard tins....

In my perfect kitchen there'd just be lots of worktop, with pan drawers underneath, no wall cabinets - and a nice clear larder in the corner of at least 4' square so everything can take up as much/little room as it needs, with all similar items having room to be together and accessible ... without constaints

I think my current wall unit 2nd shelf (well, 1st shelf above the base level) is about head height - so I look at what I am after, then send my hand in blind and lift stuff out, hoping I get it right and don't catch it on anything.