Chippendale Kitchen

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Only the second one of these that we've done but the first one that I've designed and supplied but it was an interesting one to work on in terms of the shape of the kitchen. There was a lot of unit modifications to do to make it all fit....but that's what we do!!

Kitchen is Chippendale Shaker Lissa Oak top doors with  Sage Grey Painted Wood Shaker bottom doors. All appliances are Neff - and not through AO.com!! - and granite is Slate Grey via our forum sponsors Granite4You (total cost including template and fit was £2500 incidentally) The run from the left of the hob, turning the corner across the sink and right round the corner underneath the "bookcase" as the pics will show was done in 3 pieces, ie 2 joins.

A bit of a learning curve this one as I've not worked with Chippendale kitchens before and a few ordering errors were made (by me) but we got over them. I would love to say that "we" installed this kitchen but Paul was away for the best part of this job so most of the grafting and installing was done on my own but when he did come back his contribution was worthwhile.... well I got a quite a few more cups of tea made for me than I did while I was on my own!!

Customer was on holiday for the most part of the work....

Before pics:


















Some of the design renders via good old trustworthy NexusCAD:












And the finished job, all bar the painting - which we very rarely do. If ever.




Window eventually came out and cill carries through to conservatory. This was pretty much a last minute decision









And this bookcase is "bespoke". Made from fitter panels and screwed together.....
 


This is an understairs cupboard where the integrated under counter fridge used to be.

We sort of made this bit up as we went along:

[Daz Gizmo]

Nicely done Stretch...
Not a fan of open units but maybe a customer specification or a limitation on what is available?

Any reason you did not use curved end units where the glass wall units are?

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Nicely done Stretch...
Not a fan of open units but maybe a customer specification or a limitation on what is available?

Any reason you did not use curved end units where the glass wall units are?

Yes, absolutely. It was a cost implication in that we were right on the customers budget and a curved unit top and bottom would have put another £1400 on the price.

Also we were trying to reduce the pinch point in what is quite a narrow walk through area so any millimetres saved were a bonus.... in fact, what I did on the renders was to plot a "box" which was about 750 w X d X about 900 high to demonstrate the width of the gap. The splay units were a better option. Also, every curve that granite companies have to form costs more.....

The customers were great to work with and I got this job all because I replaced their oven about 4 years ago. This explains why the slide and hide is not a match for the combi MW as they had no reason to change the original oven.

And the open unit.....it is 800mm wide overall so it was more about limitations of what was available. It will probably be a book case for the top two shelves with some sort of music system on the bottom, hence the socket outlet.

[Daz Gizmo]

Nicely done Stretch...
Not a fan of open units but maybe a customer specification or a limitation on what is available?

Any reason you did not use curved end units where the glass wall units are?

Yes, absolutely. It was a cost implication in that we were right on the customers budget and a curved unit top and bottom would have put another £1400 on the price.

Also we were trying to reduce the pinch point in what is quite a narrow walk through area so any millimetres saved were a bonus.... in fact, what I did on the renders was to plot a "box" which was about 750 w X d X about 900 high to demonstrate the width of the gap. The splay units were a better option. Also, every curve that granite companies have to form costs more.....

The customers were great to work with and I got this job all because I replaced their oven about 4 years ago. This explains why the slide and hide is not a match for the combi MW as they had no reason to change the original oven.

And the open unit.....it is 800mm wide overall so it was more about limitations of what was available. It will probably be a book case for the top two shelves with some sort of music system on the bottom, hence the socket outlet.

Yeah I use the splayed ends in tight kitchens for walkway room etc...