First Of Many - Pointers Always Welcome

[Alex Morley]

Hi All,


So many photos to put up I would be here all day. Love to hear your thoughts. Here are a few I have done in the last few months.

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[Fitter Steve]

looks like nice fits to me . Only thing Id say is I think more traditional cornice would look better on the 1st and 3rd picture ( though it looks like there isnt enough room on the first kitchen) then the clad on side panels could go lower so you wouldnt need the return on the pelmet. Saying that, thats just my preference.

[Alex Morley]

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Bamboo kitchen fitted Meads Eastbourne

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[Colour Republic]

Welcome Alex

The fitting of all the kitchens you've posted looks tidy, very tidy in fact.

BUT and you'll always get a BUT on this site. The design of all the kitchens are a fook disgrace.

Kitchen number 1



What exactly is this kitchen trying to be? A modern kitchen with lots of linear lines and big drawers, stainless steel square extractor... or a contempoary shaker? The balance is all wrong IMO

Kitchen number 2

Lost for words... only sombody that buys their kitchen in Hombase... in the 1990's... would love this kitchen. Enough said.



Kitchen number 3

The least offensive out of all the kitchens in design... until you take in to account the 2 sinks. So poorly executed. Somebody at some point has told the home owner or designer that to have 2 sinks is the latest must have. Yes having a secondary sink can have huge benefits, but to have them so close to each other and on the same run of worktop, just smacks of trying to be something it's not.

You're kitchen isn't that big, you don't have that many friends. Get over it.



Kitchen 4,5 and 6

Ouch!!!!

I've no doubt the brief was... ohhh i'd quite like a double oven... and one of those built in mircowaves, you know so I can free up workspace... oooooh one of those tall pull-out larders would be good too. One last thing, i've always wanted a ceramic sinks, they're classy.... In fact I know I said one last thing, but also I quite fancy a breakfast bar.

That's what this design looks like. A collection of last thoughts. Yes it's got everything in it, but man are they all in the wrong place to be useful! Trying to cook a meal in this kitchen would be damn near impossible. This is designed by sombody that hsa never cooked a single meal in their life.







Kitchen pics 7,8,9

I'm lost for words

I'm sure the homeowners loves it. It's got plenty of storage, it's got the double oven they wanted. It's got the open angled corner shelves to put their china figurines on.

But this kitchen isn't dated despit its looks, oh no!!!! It's got a bang up to date stainless steel warming drawer in it. Not to mention the high gloss timber worktops, which looks just like the real thing doesn't it!

The designer clearly didn't have a clue how to deal with the small window within the room so chose to just ignore it and stop with the cupboards before they got that far, but to be fair, the plasterer also didn't know how to deal with the old extraction and some poor sod has had to go at it with a bag of easifil.

It's not all bad though. clearly consideration has been given to the Clints aspirations of having a full size dishwasher in the future. Shrewd planning for sure,










wow!!!!! That rant has surprised even me!!!

I have no idea why i'm so angry with the world. Clearly I need help!

As I said Alex, welcome to the forum and all the fits look tidy, just shoot the designer/s.





p.s. the above is why I post so little of my work on these forums

[andy5405]

Well I did say we're a critical audience on here, I thought I had logged on to the Screwfix forum for a minute!

It looks like Alex comes from a very classy part of the world and we appear to have a cluster of 3 people from the Eastbourne area on here now. To provide Alex with some background the critique from above comes from a Brightonian who probably isn't used to dialling into the more conservative tastes of a customer in Meads, Eastbourne. (The kitchen with the tiles that look like they come from the 70's and the bamboo tops. I'd even hazard a guess that the tiles came from Everetts in Seaford.)

On the Meads kitchen something is bugging me. I can see the wing on the south eastern corner of the old Old Saints Hospital through the kitchen window but there isn't a property of that era in the vicinity. All that is there is the modern flats they built on the old playing fields.

However I do agree with a lot of what has been said about the design but none of us know what the customers may have insisted on. Some designers will supply what the customer asks for and even if they have strong feelings that it is wrong they won't air them.

Anyway enough about design. Re fitting and the last picture CR re-posted in the previous post with the bamboo tops. It's the only close up shot and reveals a couple of things I wouldn't let happen on my fits. There's a big gap between the tops and the wall which is probably because you only had 600 tops and the wall running is out. I would want to have stuck a filler from an offcut on the back to fill the gap. The other thing is the pelmet doesn't look to be that well fitted to the tiles, again there is a big gap.

Re CR and your rant, subsequent admission of anger and clear cry for help, I have that in hand. I have sent some chill pills via an express tracked courier service over to Brighton. Not knowing where you live I decided to send them to a central location so can you be at the Clock Tower in 3 days time at sunrise. I know I said express but this is Eastbourne so they are coming via donkey using the South Downs Way. The express part is that I paid for a whip and a carrot on a stick but that did mean I had to compromise on the donkey which only has 3 legs. Oh and of course like all couriers the driver/rider is Polish, can't speak English and has never ridden a donkey before but he's doing his best and can't read a map so I told him in Polish and sign language (I can't speak Polish) to follow the sunset and he can't go wrong. The tracking service is very high tech and I have paid for 4 homing pigeons. I've had the first pigeon back and the news is he's just arrived in Alfriston. The donkey is well aware of the consequences of arriving in a valley in downhill mode. He can see there is a big climb to get back on top and continue along the South Downs way. I know it well I have done it many times on one of those new fangled bicycle things. Anyway the donkey isn't having any of it at the moment and the rider/driver has just discovered Ye Olde Smugglers Inne by the Market Cross and is a bit worse for wear. Anyway don't worry about the logistics, I'll deal with all that, can you hold out to the revised arrival time of Friday morning?


Oh and I guess the best bit was this:

Somebody at some point has told the home owner or designer that to have 2 sinks is the latest must have. Yes having a secondary sink can have huge benefits, but to have them so close to each other and on the same run of worktop, just smacks of trying to be something it's not.

You're kitchen isn't that big, you don't have that many friends. Get over it.

I shall be adding a new design criteria to my kitchen planning now. I will insist on checking customer's Facebook accounts if they request 2 sinks. I won't allow it for anyone with less than 300 friends.

Oh and finally we can silence any more rants with a threat of a video repost from a KFF social. It was a bit like this from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore from "Derek and Clive Live".

[Colour Republic]

Oh my god! Who logged in to my account last night??!!

What an arsehole!!!

Don't drink and internets at the same time kids

[owen]

Fitting looks fine, as far as you can tell from a photo. But have to agree about the designs, they are all over the place. As for the built under oven placed NOT under the hob - it just looks all sorts of wrong.

[snezza]

If ever proof were needed that alcohol and Colour Republic just do not mix well together.........Well, here we have it.....

Poor Alex...!!!!!

[jonny round boy]

As far as the two sinks go, maybe the Clints were Jewish. Strict Jews insist on having two sinks for religious reasons.

Or it could just have been designed by an idiot.