Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

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.

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!

I love this kitchen of yours. dO IT.

Well made, good style is beyond boundaries IMO. I'd have that kitchen in a house elsewhere. I really like it.

You could get the cupboards of your kitchen and look out for a one off piece like an alter or something reclaimed for a bar. That IMO would be VERY, VERY, delicious. But the virtue of that bar, is it has room for lots of beds underneath.

All this 'I dunno, I don't like kitchens' you DO know what you want and you DO like this kitchen.

Funnily enough, our end kitchen is the sort of vintage version of that:rotfl:, everything ending in cupboards, so its a room you happen to cook in. . This furniture is a pretty good mock up of it in bits and bobs. We can see what we like and don't. We think we got spacing between cooker and unit right ( further than is recommended but gives fir and I room to wriggle)

We might go narrower than planned on bench.

Doozergirl

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.

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!

It is beautiful. I think Bulthaup might be out of most sensible prices ranges, but Symphony do a higher end range with the full larder. I fell in love with one in the flesh. They hold large amounts.

http://www.symphony-group.co.uk/products/kitchens#brand=signature&portfolio=new-england

Several colours. You won't get the oven to hide in it - that's true high end stuff. We have a client who is having a Siematic kitchen and that door that slides over regular units is thousands by itself. Their kitchen is £60k.

I'm not a fan of a curved kitchen, personally, in a normal home. They take up huge amounts of space and budget for no practical gain. I think the walls need to match or an aircraft hanger of a kitchen to avoid a sense of jarring patterns and shapes.

Edit: I posted the wrong link initially.

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

YI've seen similar houses squeeze one in. If it can't be, it won't bother me.

If it's a proper loo ... it's got some appeal. If it's a saniflo then that definitely puts people (buyers) off. A saniflo is only really any good in a single person household, where only the person responsible for it, who chose it, uses it - so they can control whether it blocks/packs up etc.

PasturesNew

I'm one of those annoying people .... show me something and I can tell you what I don't like about it ... but I couldn't really tell you what I do like so easily. What I do know though is - the bigger the kitchen, the easier it is ...... and other people/architects put services/doors in the most annoying of places

I totally dislike the cack-handed disfunctionality of my kitchen .... but it's quite new, which is nice as I'm used to shabby/mouldy/damp kitchens.

bugslet

Thanks DoozerG, I shall have a look at that link later. My kitchen is way too small for a curved and my budget way too small for a bulthaup sadly.

Nooo, not a saniflo PN:eek:

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Those petrol vouchers would be useless for me. I don't spend enough to get them ... and I don't use much fuel, I fill up about 5-6x a year.

All these things have criteria and limits and minimums.... makes it too hard to get it right.

I just checked and the Tesco petrol station is 1-2p/litre more expensive than the one I currently use and others closer.

We seem to get 8p/litre a month, which means we have spent £200 in the previous month. With OH's car's big tank that is about a fiver. Fine for us as I'm spending in Tesco anyway. For anyone who doesn't regularly shop in Tesco you could buy the 3v pre pay credit cards and pay for other shopping with the cards (they work like a visa card and can be used almost anywhere that takes visa). They also give you 150 tesco clubcard points per £50 spend. So 4 of them would give you 600 points. That would be £6 off your shopping or more if you used the points to buy something you needed from their list eg car mot/ RAC/ days out...

Doozergirl wrote: »

It is beautiful. I think Bulthaup might be out of most sensible prices ranges, but Symphony do a higher end range with the full larder. I fell in love with one in the flesh. They hold large amounts.

http://www.symphony-group.co.uk/products/kitchens#brand=signature&portfolio=new-england

Several colours. You won't get the oven to hide in it - that's true high end stuff. We have a client who is having a Siematic kitchen and that door that slides over regular units is thousands by itself. Their kitchen is £60k.

I'm not a fan of a curved kitchen, personally, in a normal home. They take up huge amounts of space and budget for no practical gain. I think the walls need to match or an aircraft hanger of a kitchen to avoid a sense of jarring patterns and shapes.

Edit: I posted the wrong link initially.

I look at kitchens with 3 different colour cupboards and think that they must have bought 3 end of range deals and are happy with the mish-mash its created!

Doozergirl

bugslet wrote: »

Thanks DoozerG, I shall have a look at that link later. My kitchen is way too small for a curved and my budget way too small for a bulthaup sadly.

Nooo, not a saniflo PN:eek:

We have a saniflow. I'm glad I tried it on ourselves before ever subjecting people to one. It's an inmitigated disaster of a product, even in our own ensuite. It makes its own decisions to pack up, pipes pop apart, stink etc. I know no one likes them, I now know why.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

We seem to get 8p/litre a month, which means we have spent £200 in the previous month. With OH's car's big tank that is about a fiver. Fine for us as I'm spending in Tesco anyway. For anyone who doesn't regularly shop in Tesco you could buy the 3v pre pay credit cards and pay for other shopping with the cards (they work like a visa card and can be used almost anywhere that takes visa). They also give you 150 tesco clubcard points per £50 spend. So 4 of them would give you 600 points. That would be £6 off your shopping or more if you used the points to buy something you needed from their list eg car mot/ RAC/ days out...



I look at kitchens with 3 different colour cupboards and think that they must have bought 3 end of range deals and are happy with the mish-mash its created!

Can I have a link for this magic pre-pay card please?

It's not the kitchen I was trying to link to. I think two colours is better than three, especially when you factor in worktop. I've had a two colour with a third in the utility.

Doozergirl

bugslet wrote: »

Thanks DoozerG, I shall have a look at that link later. My kitchen is way too small for a curved and my budget way too small for a bulthaup sadly.

Nooo, not a saniflo PN:eek:

That website posts up what it wants to when you link to it. The kitchen I'm trying to link to is the bottom one - the Signature New England Oak which has two of their big larders pushed together as a standalone piece of furniture. I'm tired of changing the link!

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

We have a saniflow. I'm glad I tried it on ourselves before ever subjecting people to one. It's an inmitigated disaster of a product, even in our own ensuite. It makes its own decisions to pack up, pipes pop apart, stink etc. I know no one likes them, I now know why.

We had a saniflow yEARs ago, 90s. It was fine, no problems with it. It was in a main use down stairs loo. Noisy yes, but not smelly or plumbing problems.