Kitchens!

[beeboo]

I’m getting a new kitchen! I’m SO excited! But also scared about all the work to be done.

I LOVE kitchens, they’re always my favourite room in the house. All I ever want for birthday or Christmas presents are kitchen gadgets and recipe books.
And now I’m going to get a kitchen all of my very own! whoo-hoo!!

Not looking forward the inevitable major stress, as there is a lot of work to be done (walls knocked out, lots of electrics etc). But we are just at the planning stage so am relishing the joy of deciding on cabinet colours and playing around with graph paper and things.

Anyone wanting to share their love of kitchens or any cautionary tales of getting kitchens fitted, please go right ahead…

*goes back to drooling over Rangemasters*

 

[The Pious Pawn]

hope your gettin a nice big cooker !!

 

[beeboo]

One of these beauties with any luck...

And after two years with an oven which has two settings ('hot' and 'off') I feel I have earnt it.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

One of these beauties with any luck...

And after two years with an oven which has two settings ('hot' and 'off') I feel I have earnt it.

You lucky, lucky bastard!
I want one!

 

[tobyjug]

Anyone wanting to share their love of kitchens or any cautionary tales of getting kitchens fitted, please go right ahead…

My wife and I are very sad. We have a miniature kitchen on the front of one of our sidecars. (Wonderful what you can do with £12 of scrap industrial shelving and a few nuts and bolts)
When my wife as cooking scrambled eggs on the sidecar mounted kitchen last Sunday morning at a rally some of the women were mesmerised. (Or in shock).

 

[beeboo]

You lucky, lucky bastard!
I want one!

I know, I know! I virtually had to be dragged out of the shop over the weekend when I was looking at them. It's going to be like all my christmases rolled into one.

Keeping my fingers crossed as we've got to knock out a chimney breast to fit it in, and there is a chance it won't be structurally possible. eek!

 

[Stobart Stopper]

I saw a SMEG oven, it was about £2k but it just won't fit into our kitchen at the moment, I will have to wait until we can get the whole lot refitted.

I hope you realise that now you will have to have an Urbanite feeding night to test out your new oven when it's all done!

 

[beeboo]

I saw a SMEG oven, it was about £2k but it just won't fit into our kitchen at the moment, I will have to wait until we can get the whole lot refitted.

I hope you realise that now you will have to have an Urbanite feeding night to test out your new oven when it's all done!

hehheh, you can all come if you promise not to drool on my nice new floor. :lol:

 

[Bob]

I saw a SMEG oven, it was about £2k but it just won't fit into our kitchen at the moment, I will have to wait until we can get the whole lot refitted.

I hope you realise that now you will have to have an Urbanite feeding night to test out your new oven when it's all done!

My predecessors in my flat left me with a SMEG oven - it looks nice but is appallingly designed. The knobs are all metal so if you leave the oven door open while grilling they get so hot you burn yourself!

And the fan rattled a lot, followed by a recent death of the fan. So a pricey visit to the SMEG servicers will soon be happening...

 

[Profhufflepuff]

Just my experience, but avoid Moben - product looks good, salemen are animated and helpful ... but they contract out the fitting and if anything goes wrong its virtually impossible to get any redress. I have a couple of friends that had nightmares with Moben also. I believe Moben are also the company behind Kitchens Direct.

 

[moose]

I could relive my 5 month kitchen hell, incorporating the Saga of the Seven Plasterers, but I don't want to put you off. Get a plaster who's recommended by someone you know, and book him/her now.

 

[beeboo]

I could relive my 5 month kitchen hell, incorporating the Saga of the Seven Plasterers, but I don't want to put you off. Get a plaster who's recommended by someone you know, and book him/her now.

yikes!

*makes notes*

A plasterer is one name I have got - don't know where to start with electricians, gas, wall-knocker-outers, cabinet fitters and all the rest.

 

[moose]

I wish I'd actually got one contractor to sort everything out, as trying to co-ordinate all the individual tradespeople if one over-ran or didn't show up was a nightmare. Because I got through 7 plasterers, that part over-ran by 4 weeks, meaning I missed my slot with the cabinet maker and then xmas got in the way, then I had to wait 5 weeks for the tiler to be free again.

 

[parallelepipete]

My wife and I are very sad. We have a miniature kitchen on the front of one of our sidecars. (Wonderful what you can do with £12 of scrap industrial shelving and a few nuts and bolts)
When my wife as cooking scrambled eggs on the sidecar mounted kitchen last Sunday morning at a rally some of the women were mesmerised. (Or in shock).

Photos! I demand photos!

(yes, it's a leedle bit sad, but sounds pretty ingenious )

 

[Shmu]

My predecessors in my flat left me with a SMEG oven - it looks nice but is appallingly designed. The knobs are all metal so if you leave the oven door open while grilling they get so hot you burn yourself!

And the fan rattled a lot, followed by a recent death of the fan. So a pricey visit to the SMEG servicers will soon be happening...

Haha

That's what I have, but it is rubbish, I agree. And mine is now dead after about 4 years

And those knobs are the worst design ever.

I bought ours because it was pretty

 

[brixtonvilla]

Don't use Magnet. Nice kitchen now it's in, but they demand full payment up front and basically leave you to sort out the fitting. Or to put it another way, you live on takeaways for 2-3 weeks while their fitters (who were really good, to be fair) try to (wait for it) fit you into their schedules. Nightmare.

 

[Shmu]

One of these beauties with any luck...

And after two years with an oven which has two settings ('hot' and 'off') I feel I have earnt it.

So what is that then, Beeboo? And how much? Please.

 

[beeboo]

Rangemaster Professional 90cm dual fuel

In Currys for £1399 I think but some online prices under £1100.

Can't recommend it as such as am only dreaming about it so far. But I've been round Currys, John Lewis etc checking out what else is around, and this one seems to make the best use of the space (most 90cm don't have a separate grill which this one does - also the long thin side oven seems to be larger than some others).

Some nice touches like an oven shelf mounted on the back of the door, so it swings out when you open the oven so you can get to your cooking easily.

There are a couple of others (Classic, Toledo) which they do which as far as I can see have the same spec, just different styling.

 

[Bob]

Haha

That's what I have, but it is rubbish, I agree. And mine is now dead after about 4 years

And those knobs are the worst design ever.

I bought ours because it was pretty

You don't have any repair hints do you?

 

[Shmu]

You don't have any repair hints do you?

No.

My repair man said "don't bother".

The parts are expensive and my repair man said it would also be hours and hours of labour.

I'm looking for a new one - look, I posted a thread about it.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I have a Moben kitchen. The ripping out old one and fitting in new one was all done in 3 days. The installers were very professional and the level of workmanship was excellent. Although it was expensive it was worth it.

But I did have a problem with getting the range oven serviced as it was faulty when installed, it ended up taking weeks to get sorted although I was out of the country a fair bit which made booking the service in very difficult.

 

[beeboo]

I have a Moben kitchen. The ripping out old one and fitting in new one was all done in 3 days. The installers were very professional and the level of workmanship was excellent. Although it was expensive it was worth it.

mmm, some nice kitchens there. Think we are going for cheapy Ikea units that we're going to spangle up with a fancy worktop (and most importantly saving money for that all important cooker, mmm dreamy...

 

[Hood]

mmm, some nice kitchens there. Think we are going for cheapy Ikea units that we're going to spangle up with a fancy worktop (and most importantly saving money for that all important cooker, mmm dreamy...

I've just fitted an Ikea kitchen with an oak worktop from these chaps:

http://www.real-wood-flooring.com/oakandbeechworktops.html

Jolly cheap, looks expensive. The units are a pain in the arse though, there's no service void.

 

[Space Girl]

we luckily insisted that the kitchen company come out and measure our kitchen rather than taking our measurements, as it turned out that one of our walls angled out quite a bit so the standard size work top would not have fitted.

I bought my sink and taps from ebay, loads cheaper than from the shops, it's well worth shopping around for fitments

I have got sold oak doors in my kitchen, if you have kids, cats and / or dogs then don't get solid wood as they scratch easily, kiddies wax crayon hids it but think about how hardwaring your kitchen has to be before you buy

 

[beeboo]

Hey, hey, my thread is back from the dead!

( at Shmu)

Our house is wonky as you like - I think we are definitely going to have issues with the fact that nothing is at right angles. We even have an uphill and downhill slope on the floor! what fun.

Those work-tops look nice. We'll definitely be trawling ebay for some fancy fittings.

 

[Ms T]

mmm, some nice kitchens there. Think we are going for cheapy Ikea units that we're going to spangle up with a fancy worktop (and most importantly saving money for that all important cooker, mmm dreamy...

That's what we've got -- our carpenter made shaker doors for the carcasses (which are super-cheap and very sturdy), so it looks much more expensive than it actually is. We've only got the wall units and a sink unit though, as I inherited some rather nice stainless steel professional kitchen base units when we moved in. I spent the money we saved on a Smeg cooker, which was a mistake (see oven thread) and a Liebherr fridge, which is fabulous.

 

[Rohen]

How is your ikea kitchen holding up?

And without the wooden work top how much did it cost you?

I ask because I currently hate my kitchen but then agqain I dont know whether I can afford to replace it

Can you buy the carcasses separately then?


Pm me?

 

[Hood]

How is your ikea kitchen holding up?

And without the wooden work top how much did it cost you?

I ask because I currently hate my kitchen but then agqain I dont know whether I can afford to replace it

Can you buy the carcasses separately then?


Pm me?

Mine's great. The units came to about £600 and you buy everything seperately, down to the handles. Here it is:

The catalogue is online so you can price it up:

http://ikeaeu3.ecweb.is/ukk/