Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

lostinrates

Bugs, if you are going to sell in three years, why do the kitchen now?

Won't it be subject to wear and tear?

If you won't enjoy it? If you'd enjoy it sure....but...


Doozer girl is very good at this sort of thing.

Edit: I had a quick look at howdens, they do one called burford which looks like It would suit a modern or traditional kitchen and could have curved or square corners( I like the idea of curved corners but fir doesn't). My guess is if you don't love kitchens your not looking at a TOTR £50k plus job? But something that looks handsome and suits most tastes?

White probably safer than grey I suppose. ( I like the grey best) Can be dressed cath kids ton eqsue vintage or modern Italian kitchen chic with pops of colour. ( of course so could grey, but some people are weird about colour and think white is a neutral)


IMO gloss is bad with dogs.

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

My biggest trouble is that I just don't like kitchens, don't cook if I can possibly avoid it, don't like cabinets, all kitchens look the same. Normally I make my mind up very quickly, this indecision is annoying me immensely.

Me neither .... "you find food in kitchens" is the only good thing about them ... but that only works if there are kitchen fairies and fridge fairies to put it there.

I'd start by making sure there was one good sized larder cupboard - where everything goes/fits .... no fiddly/daft cupboards where nothing fits. Pan drawers are good/better than cupboards.

I don't like wall cabinets - can't reach them - and nothing fits in them.

Doozergirl

I also have a kitchen fitter in Liverpool who travels . I need a translator but he fits a good kitchen and mends wooden bathroom panelling at short notice.

The Burford is a nice kitchen, LIR. Cheaper than the Tewkesbury which has solid wood doors, but it still looks nice. Grey is hitting mainstream fashion now. There's a lot of talk of grey paints etc on the In My Home board.

Do you have any idea what style you want, bugs? Classic, glossy, painted, wood? Where are you looking?

You don't need to put the loo in, you can leave the space. If it's in the middle of the house it can be difficult to get the waste out. Not impossible, but loos at the side or rear, or in houses with suspended floors are simplest.

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

Bugs, if you are going to sell in three years, why do the kitchen now?

Won't it be subject to wear and tear?

If you won't enjoy it? If you'd enjoy it sure....but...


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Because the pop out is freezing cold in winter with it only being single skinned, the ceiling is patchy to say the least, with bits hanging down because of a water leak in the bathroom, Ruby ate half the wallpaper as a pup, the electrics need a renovation. I don't think it would get shabby in three years and I'd quite like something that is nice for a change!

Yep gloss and dogs is a no.

Howdens Burford, it's just square cabinets, just perfectly adequate. probably will end up with something like that on the grounds that it's better than what I have.

I do like this, which is not at all cabinet-y

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/bulthup.jpg

or this

http://www.ideashomedesign.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Rounded-kitchen-island.jpg

PasturesNew wrote: »

Me neither .... "you find food in kitchens" is the only good thing about them ... but that only works if there are kitchen fairies and fridge fairies to put it there.
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We share a kitchen theory and add it's where the mutts get fed.:D

lostinrates

I love the first one.

Why NOT do something like that then? Would it have buyer appeal? Would appeal to me!

( second one have to admit not for me!)

lostinrates

Bugs, may be freestanding looking might appeal more?

Not 'not kitcheny' but not just square cabinets?


This is my kitchen ( ages ago) the cooker is on back wall, as is the butchers block now. There is a chest of drawers back to back with the alter, and another chest think under that window where ther butchers block is in this picture. Its a temp kitchen. No sink, for example. It bothers doozer boy and the architect bit not me, I like it a lot. I could live like this for decades. I would like the floor though. Concrete is super hard to clean.

bugslet

Doozergirl wrote: »

I also have a kitchen fitter in Liverpool who travels . I need a translator but he fits a good kitchen and mends wooden bathroom panelling at short notice.

Do you have any idea what style you want, bugs? Classic, glossy, painted, wood? Where are you looking?

You don't need to put the loo in, you can leave the space. If it's in the middle of the house it can be difficult to get the waste out. Not impossible, but loos at the side or rear, or in houses with suspended floors are simplest.

Y'alright there, Queen? Trust me I can speak scouse;) and he wouldn't have to travel far either.

Style wise as you can now tell is modern, definitely not country, cutesy, shabby chic:eek:. I have friends that have that style and it looks lovely in their homes, but not mine.:o

I am geting there, I just dislike anything that takes longer than a couple of days to make my mind up.

The space under the stairs is currently a larder and it works well. I think it would be very tight to get a downstairs loo there, but I've seen similar houses squeeze one in. If it can't be, it won't bother me.

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

I love the first one.

Why NOT do something like that then? Would it have buyer appeal? Would appeal to me!

( second one have to admit not for me!)

I've been surprised by the amount of people who like that and it's my favourite as well - I'd probably have to have it built to fit, but I could live with that.

This is the first one with the doors open

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/bulthaup-open.jpg

Yes, something like your kitchen is probably where I'm heading, but more contemporary. I do love the solid feel of those pieces and especially the alter!

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

I've been surprised by the amount of people who like that and it's my favourite as well - I'd probably have to have it built to fit, but I could live with that.

Do it.

Be happy.

bugslet

That's advice for life, not just kitchens:D