Just been back to finish...

[Stretch]

...this one today.

We fitted this one about a month or so ago and were just waiting for a couple of tall larder fascias which were on back order.

They'd decorated and had the Amtico done in the meantime so seemed like a good excuse to get some pics.

Kitchen was about 30 years old.

New kitchen is Crown Imperial Zeluso Oyster Matt with Duropal Orion Beige worktops. All appliances are Neff and sourced by the customer - well in advance!! They were all there when we started. Required a fair amount of plastering and getting walls level where the original extension was done.

It was actually for family although they were my wife's aunt and uncle and not a blood relation. We stayed in the house (with them) for the duration and were fed every night and kept supplied with tea, biscuits and lunch throughout!! Happy days....

Some befores:

The RSJ (at the top of this pic) that was originally put in for the extension had been meshed, hardwalled, and sort of textured and painted to look like a wooden beam. It was truly awful but we managed to bead it up and plaster over it later on during the prep work.











Little bit more painting to do after we fitted the two larder doors on the boiler alcove shown in the first pic but all done and dusted now. Could probably do with the main kitchen door replacing though!!
Quite a daring colour scheme but I think it really brings out the colour in the fascias and it seems to work.









All Crown users, in case you didn't know, the white Intivo drawer boxes cost no more than the standard tandemboxes and make for a really nice upgrade:



Old kitchen window removed and French doors put in (not by us)

[mst]

Lovely job!

[emo_luke]

Is that 20mm trim or have you used plinth as trim?

Nice job

[Daz Gizmo]

Looks good Stretch....I even like the Gap at the ceiling

Do you mod the Chisel end units....I hate the way the 18mm end panel on the deep side is visible. We did a painted one and came up with a easy mod that gets the door to cloak it...

[Stretch]

Lovely job!

Thanks!

Is that 20mm trim or have you used plinth as trim?

Nice job

20mm x about 80mm flat abs edged cornice/trim

Looks good Stretch....I even like the Gap at the ceiling

Touche...

Do you mod the Chisel end units....I hate the way the 18mm end panel on the deep side is visible. We did a painted one and came up with a easy mod that gets the door to cloak it...

No but tell me more...

[Daz Gizmo]

Stretch see my updated post above.

Edit:

Another option on a Crown Chisel end base - to keep 300mm width order carcass only and a 396 door separately:

[chippy1970]

Nice job that ceiling looks nice and level the gap above the wall units looks very even.

[Daniel]

Smart fit stretch ..... why did the client choose the ovens that way round though? Fairly unusual putting combi below main oven.

[Stretch]

Smart fit stretch ..... why did the client choose the ovens that way round though? Fairly unusual putting combi below main oven.

That's a good question and I'm glad you asked.....

Designer error!!

A Crown high wall appliance tower is 2153mm high.

I planned for 2 x 283 pan drawers, 1050 aperture and 595 top door when I really should have gone 283, 141, 1050, 674

As you know I'm 6'4" and I tend to think everyone is as tall as me or at least I don't realise how tall I am sometimes!

My wife's aunt is not so tall and I don't see her very often so I forget that. We installed the ovens in the conventional way but she complained that the MW was difficult to reach in and out of. So we swapped them around.

This is where the story gets tedious. They had ordered the oven and MW with one of Neff's new combination strips. They had ordered a regular pull down door but the combination strip was for a slide and hide. The suppliers agreed to swap the oven for a slide and hide as Neff don't actually make a combination strip for the regular oven and MW combination!!!

That was all irrelevant though as the combination strip wont work if the appliances are swapped around but with the oven being on top it needed to be slide and hide to be able to get into it easily.

Did you follow all that??!!

Oh, and don't give me all the credit...remember I work with CL and he's as much entitled to it as I am!!