Kitchen Design Help

Doozergirl

nssimpson wrote: »

DoozerGirl - any chance of getting a sketch?

Easier to dig out the plan (it's so old I can only get one view) and took a couple of photos. Not exactly marketing quality shots!
https://imgur.com/a/dZT4s

The bit of my room where you'd have your dining table is full of a new bathroom and several appliances, so I'm not photographing that!

You do need to make design decisions and share these with the builder before you start on the extension to get the best result. It is more difficult and expensive for them to make routing decisions after the ground has been dug and filled with concrete.

I'm managing a small extension project at the moment and it is so difficult getting out of the ground with drainage in the the right places compared to the big projects I've been used to lately!

nssimpson

Wow I love it!!! One of the designs I did had the ovens there but I couldn't figure out what to do with the corner. To open the cupboard door do you have to clear the worktop?

Cheers

Nick

Furts

nssimpson wrote: »

Hi Furts,

He's already quoted us for moving the services into the existing build rather than having them in the extension so we know all the pricing.

But you have to manage the builder. You have to tell the builder exactly - to the miilimeter - where the drain(s) are located, and the water and the electric! It does not matter whether the builder is doing trench fill, or a strip footing, this needs to be agreed in writing before work commences. It follows that if new drains are required then you are subject to Buildings Regulations. What have you arranged here? Obviously you have a legal duty here on the foundations, so you will already have arranged the Application, and paid up, but was drainage part of these discussions?

getmore4less

nssimpson wrote: »

Wow I love it!!! One of the designs I did had the ovens there but I couldn't figure out what to do with the corner. To open the cupboard door do you have to clear the worktop?

Cheers

Nick

you can get vertical sliding shutters, what a friend of mine has done is have sockets behind and has the gadgets like toaster and egg boiler in there and can be hidden away.

They also have some very neat 900 corner units with carousels where the 2x300mm doors fold in,

get a hotwater tap so you don't need a kettle

one option you have since you don't have a boiler is to have a cabinet on that wall for things like cups and glasses tea coffee with the tap under then those at the breakfast bar can get themselves a drink without going elsewhere.

Do you really need the freezer in the kitchen we have ours in the garage that would free up some space.

Doozergirl

nssimpson wrote: »

Wow I love it!!! One of the designs I did had the ovens there but I couldn't figure out what to do with the corner. To open the cupboard door do you have to clear the worktop?

Cheers

Nick

Thank you

The window cill is a continuation of worktop so the mug tree and knife block tuck out of the way of the cupboard anyway, but it's my boiler cupboard and not really used. I only recently put the chopping boards front of the door after nearly six years of barely opening the cupboard.

The worktop continues inside mine. As well as the other ideas just given with the roller door, you can just put a wall unit set forward to keep the look of larder units across the top, and keep the work surface underneath free for bits that tuck out of the way if you do want that workspace.

getmore4less

Woops should have looked more closely previous post where I refer to boiler Imean the microwave unit to the left of the pillar.


One thing to consider is where you need sockets for chargers or USB charging points.

getmore4less

Might be worth looking for someone with access to the big German book of kitchens they seem to have a much bigger selection of carcase and interiors to any of the UK based offerings.

Meepster

getmore4less wrote: »

Might be worth looking for someone with access to the big German book of kitchens they seem to have a much bigger selection of carcase and interiors to any of the UK based offerings.

Maybe if you're only looking at the sheds.

Can't say I've ever found a cabinet we can't make or an internal we can't provide.

getmore4less

Meepster wrote: »

Maybe if you're only looking at the sheds.

seems that is what the OP is doing, once a design system can't display a double width worktop for a peninsular time to move on

Can't say I've ever found a cabinet we can't make or an internal we can't provide.

no doubt, but it was quite handy having multiple manufacturers in one big book to look through and see what is actually available.

edit: the point I am trying to make until you see what is really available you tend to stick with the ideas you have seen or are reliant on what the person doing the design knows about.

Meepster

getmore4less wrote: »

no doubt, but it was quite handy having multiple manufacturers in one big book to look through and see what is actually available.

edit: the point I am trying to make until you see what is really available you tend to stick with the ideas you have seen or are reliant on what the person doing the design knows about.

I couldn't agree more, but it's a lot easier to speak to a designer than try to do it all yourself. Hours could be spent researching the perfect solution, only to find it's not possible with the kitchen supplier they will be using.

I've put some solutions I've used when trying to overcome tall units running into a corner just for some thought: