Can you find a turquoise kitchen for me?

Robinred

Hi all, I'm looking for a turquoise/light blue kitchen and I am stumped! I'm loving this one http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S89876304/#/S89876304 but they don't do drawers! Any ideas? Cheers!

Steve_the_fitter

Hi i have a light blue kitchen. Never fitted one since.lol The company I got mine from have stopped making them but have a look at the Melford Sky Blue Second Nature.

CKdesigner

Hi Robinred

I am just designing a kitchen in that colour right now. It will be more expensive than what you are looking at from Ikea but you do generally get what you pay for.

Schuller Murano

CK

Steve_the_fitter

Thinking about it i have fitted one other turquoise kitchen and its the one CK mentioned. Really nice kitchen. The guy I fitted it for put a little video on youtube. Heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yNI5dz5aE

Doozergirl

I've just bought those Ikea Rubrik glass doors and used the Arsta white doors for the rest of the kitchen. Everything above the worktop height is blue aside from the fridge freezer unit, everything below the worktop is white.

I know people love their Ikea kitchens on here, so I thought we'd give one a go seeing as we've bought so many other brands but they genuinely are an absolute pig to fit. A kitchen fit for units normally takes two days for H and a carpenter and this one is at three and a half and counting. We've had to leave it over Christmas. You only have to fit them once, so people may not care but the extra we've spent in labour negates them being cheaper to buy and the inflexibility in doors and carcass sizes, and the fact that decor ends don't cover anything more than the side of the unit really does restrain any creative design ideas and also the ability to disguise where you have wonky walls, which most of us do.

First and last Ikea kitchen for us. Certainly not in an older house where the walls aren't true and not any kitchen that contains the boiler and the associated pipework. Some people may not mind losing the backs of their cupboards and staring at the pipework when they open doors, but you can buy kitchens where that doesn't happen!

ryder72

doozergirl - well said. You get what you pay for.

Steve_the_fitter

Im not as big lover of Ikea kitchens myself but oversized worktops would have solved most of the problems below


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First and last Ikea kitchen for us. Certainly not in an older house where the walls aren't true and not any kitchen that contains the boiler and the associated pipework. Some people may not mind losing the backs of their cupboards and staring at the pipework when they open doors, but you can buy kitchens where that doesn't happen![/QUOTE]

Sophiej

Vama Cucine (an Italian company) does good quality kitchens in RAL colours, which is a standard colour system with hundreds of coulours. They arent super expensive, but not Ikea cheap either.

Doozergirl

Steve_the_fitter wrote: »

Im not as big lover of Ikea kitchens myself but oversized worktops would have solved most of the problems below

Have indeed purchased oversize worktops (bigger ones from elsewhere as the Ikea 62cm don't do the job either!) and it still doesn't stop them being a pig. There are no pipes showing even at the back on our kitchen but the kitchen does feel quite bulky with 66cm deep worktops where the GCH pipes run down a wall with water and waste. Plus, it's another added expense over a 'normal' kitchen with normal worktop depth.

downshifted

I've had the Schuller Murano Kitchen for over a year now, it's wearing well, easy to look after and I still love it

mutron_2

I'm a kitchen designer from Glasgow and, while I haven't used them before, I know NESP can make doors to order and are very inexpensive.

http://www.nesp.co.uk/home.asp

They are a manufacturer who source from the likes of Egger, Kronospan and Thermopal.

I'm not sure if they deal direct with the public though.