Kitchen design advice

7roland8

After previous post I have found a local firm that sells and installs kitchens.

I plan to have cream slab doors - being cheaper than the shaker look that I really like - but want money for flooring through the house - and a door is a still a door no matter what!

Anyhow was planning on getting the same sort of style that I have now - cream doors, wooden look worktop and then wooden knobs - this is what I picked in the 80s.

However I do not know if I am completely out of touch (well I am as home ill most of the time) but people in the shop seem to think that is an antiquated look or else the wooden knobs would look 'wrong' on slab doors.

So I was swayed to mottled marble style worktop with a long sliver handle.




Not confirmed yet but now feel I may like the wood look anyway.


I did not want to have it looking 'old fashioned' as soon as it was put in but these silver handles are everywhere online when I look and really if its just for me who cares. I don't want the kitchen to be a horror in case we ever have to sell but not planning on at all.

Looking online this is the look I like:



Think I have been so long not having money to spend on the house and now we are doing it I am doubting my own ideas!


The shaker style doors would up the cost by maybe £600 which I think is a waste just to have grooves on them - and that would cover a new cooker and vinyl.


Any advice?

Doozergirl

I think if you like the shaker look, you should go with it. It won't quite look the part without the panels. The look is timeless. What you've gone with will not look similar at all.

I did a similar one last year to your picture. It's very pretty. They painted the wall a deep sage green, looks fab. Benchmarx do a lovely oak style laminate worktop that looks almost real. I'd pick that one if laminate was my budget.

I accidentally deleted my pics of it

EssexExile

Personally I don't need others to tell me what I want! However if you want to be fashionable I have some bad news - we have that worktop & those handles & they've been in over 10 years.

The marble & metal that is, not wood.

Doozergirl

This is the worktop:
http://www.benchmarxkitchens.co.uk/Canyon-Oak-Block-38mm-Worktop/p/143527

Doozergirl

EssexExile wrote: »

Personally I don't need others to tell me what I want! However if you want to be fashionable I have some bad news - we have that worktop & those handles & they've been in over 10 years.

The marble & metal that is, not wood.

Lol! I didn't pick up that they thought that was more up to date?!

tea-bag

pineland.co.uk cheaper than you thing and real old school way of doing things, I visited the showroom the other week VERY IMPRESSED with what they do!

jellie

I wouldn't want shaker personally, because I don't like having crevices where dust, grease and grime like to congregate.

Having said that I think wooden handles and worktops do look very nice on shaker style doors.

7roland8

Thanks for your input. Those long thin handles seem almost universal now.


Jellie - My doors will be just flat ones - which is why people seem to think the wooden knobs would look out of place.

hanfrangipane

7roland8 wrote: »

Thanks for your input. Those long thin handles seem almost universal now.


Jellie - My doors will be just flat ones - which is why people seem to think the wooden knobs would look out of place.

I don't think it needs to be all or nothing. I'm doing a similar style at the moment (I'm 27 so hopefully I'm not choosing something 'old fashioned' as you say!!) - I think that sort of look is becoming really popular again. Have you looked on pinterest for inspiration? There are hundreds of combinations on there that will give you more of an idea.

Personally I'm going for white shaker style (B+Q) with a wood effect laminate (B+Q) and silver handles (IKEA). It's all being done on a very tight budget but I think will give the right kind of look for a fraction of the cost of some other kitchen stuff I've seen.

I agree that I think wood handles might look slightly out of place on a slab door (is it gloss or matt?) but a really nice combination that I saw online was white/cream doors, wooden tops and then brushed metal knobs rather than long handles. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460282024392436810/

Choose what YOU want, not what some hypothetical future person buying your house that you may sell might like. They can always change the handles!

arbrighton

Just go for what the hell you like, don't let them pressure you into what they think is in fashion (or more likely costs more).

I've seen plenty of displays of shaker style with wooden knobs recently.
I went for cream in frame (yes, more expensive, but every one I looked at and liked was and it's a long term investment), wood effect laminate tops for practicality, because it looks in place and I wouldn't manage to care for real wood effectively and round pewter knobs (OH wouldn't let me have old style metal cup handles).

Range cooker and vinyl slate effect flooring.

Plenty of space and tiled splash backs

7roland8

Thanks - yes our doors would be matt but not the shaker style with the grooves.

These are the basic units -

I just prefer the wooden knobs but don't see that the doors being 'slab' and flat would make much difference.

The cost of the different handles and worktops is the same.