Getting FIREd up 😀

TallGirl

Large draws are so much better than cupboard shelves. Also for the corners don’t bother with the expensive spiny shelves  I have my slow cooker in mine and al other things in baskets I can just pull out. I like the spiny things but they add costs 

QueenJess

My kitchen is mainly drawers (not my planning, but was what was here) and they are great except that I find it really hard to store things like my very heavy and large mixer that I don't want on the side as I don't use it daily.  I don't quite trust a drawer to take the weight and you can't adjust the height of a drawer once it's there, but you can adjust the shelf in a cupboard. 

I also struggled with breakfast cereal packets and finding somewhere to put them as they are tall.  They are in the only possible place, which is above the oven, but it is too high for DS to get his own breakfast.

Cornish_mum

Hi SC, kitchen plans sound brilliant. I have had two kitchens with integrated appliances and replacement and repairs have been a total PITA. So I would recommend going high quality on integrated appliances if you can stretch to it, to minimise the risk of expensive breakdowns.

CM 

PS I want a new kitchen too (ours in 25 years old) but we have about a billion things to fix in the house first, so am very interested in your plans!

greenbee

Having had to enlist help to sort out a dishwasher problem on an integrated one that I would have been able to deal with on my own if it had been freestanding (I needed to pull it out to clear the inlet filter), I recommend NOT getting integrated appliances. They're also more expensive - as is the cabinetry. 

Drawers are great if they have full height sides (as in my last house where I put the kitchen in). Not if they have shallow sides and stupid bars (like here, where someone else did it). Corner cupboards - make them as big as you can so that you can open the door really wide to get to stuff. They're great for storing little-used stuff at the back and more frequently used stuff at the back. But you need a decent door opening. 

I really want to replace the kitchen here but simply can't justify it. Roof first, electrics, insulation and hopefully eventually flooring and decorating. Then one day, kitchen. 

themadvix

Greenbee, your drawers (ooh err!) sound like IKEA ones - you can get sides for them separately if you want.

South_coast

Guys, you are all getting waaaayy too excited about this. Knew I shouldn't have mentioned a new kitchen, have noticed over the years that it prompts the same reaction for MFW's as the "s"(preadsheet) word 🤣! Personally, I'm more excited about the bathroom!

I take on board what's been said about integrated appliances, but with every base unit an appliance, seeing the whole room as a jumble of mis-matched appliance doors would be a proper assault on the eyes (and probably make it look a lot smaller in there as well). So, hidden and matching it is!

greenbee

themadvix said:

Greenbee, your drawers (ooh err!) sound like IKEA ones - you can get sides for them separately if you want.

Sadly they're not. The kitchen is very poorly designed, so will need replacing at some point and I can live with it for now. I guess I should probably update on my own diary ... I should also review the electrician's quote.  

LadyWithAPlan

Yes we are all way too excited - its permissible big spending !

South_coast

Need to do the saving first - £0 in the pot at present!

ruby_eskimo

It's also se we can all live vicariously through you as you've achieved MF status and now reaping the benefits!  

Bit late to the Nectar party but I got #2 for milky bar mousse purchases last year which were all for DH and the funny thing is that our store have stopped selling them 😆