First Of Many - Pointers Always Welcome

[Colour Republic]

Isnt that a oxymoron? a mordern kitchen or a contemporary kitchen?

not really. To me this is modern kitchen with strong linear lines


and this is a contemporary

Well either that or it could be to do with religion or just food prep. Youve never worked for orthadox jewish people for example


Generally a very harsh post for someone who has joined the forum. You just came in from that harsh south coast wind and rain when you wrote this ?

Do you know what, I don't think I have! It's a very valid point. I've designed and fitted kitchens with 2 sinks but never in kitchens which are pushed for work surface. If it was a major requirement that had to included then I suppose they knew the trade off.

It was very harsh! really harsh! But i'd just come in from a night out and seeing kitchens designed where I don't think much thought has gone in to how it actually functions angers me. It's not about just sticking square boxes against walls to fill a space.

I do in fact take it back about kitchen number 2. It's not actually badly designed in terms of layout. It's just a door combo I personally hate.

No doubt he sits in the remit of what the customer allows.

That goes without saying.

Most kitchens aren't perfect and have some sort of trade off where something isn't quite right because of either space, design, function or customer requests.

Also some designs aren't possible with some brands of kitchen due to the lack of sizes of the units and Clints. But in most cases there are work arounds.

For example Burbidge do 900mm tall wall units, but some of their ranges don't do 900mm+ wall decor panels that frame the pelmet, so a work around is to order tall or dresser decor panels and cut to suit, rather than carrying the pelmet round the sides.

I suppose i'm lucky that most of my customers are open to ideas.

Getting kicthens to fit is easy
getting kitchens to function is easy
getting kitchens to look visually stunning is easy
getting all 3 of the above to work together is the hard part and I hate seeing lazy kitchen design.

I'm not saying i'm some design God!!! Especially when working within customers parameters, but at least I have a bloody good try.

Sorry Alex, Welcome to the forum and ignore my rantings! Like I said, I think the fitting looks very tidy given what you you have to work with. Its the designs I'm not a fan of.

For example those bamboo worktops and the wall running out. Not a great deal you can do if the worktops are only 600mm deep, but a decent worktop supplier will often have multiple depths of timber 600, 620. 720, 900, 960.... Which gives much greater scope to deal with issues like yours.

To be honest, I might remove my ranting post from last night, not because I think any differently but more that I didn't realise it was in the public forum and it's unfair to go tearing in to someones work in public and no doubt these kitchens are someones pride and joy.