Satin Grey and Anthracite Handleless

[Colour Republic]

Went back last night to fit the glass shelves in this one, rushed the shots a bit s it was gone 8pm and my pal wanted to get to the pub. Will go back in the new year as I cocked up one of the filler panels above the wine coolers

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[KOVKID]

Superb

[Daniel]

Well sir you have done an absolutely cracking job with this one

Having had a few sneak previews I was looking forward to seeing the final product.

I love the island, that's a great piece of design ...... One of the images looks like you rebated the steel into the acrylic ?

Really like the drinks cabinet as well, is it a Matt black lacquer ?

[Fitter Steve]

Great design and the pictures look really good especially with your log in the corner.

Does the stainless steel worktop on the breakfast bar get fabricated off site in one piece or do you do it on site. Hows it work??


Also really like the wine coolers. Never seen them before. The doors look a little out but that could just be the picture. Do they fit in a 600mm single oven unit with a drawer at the bottom. Take it you had to cut the fillers at the top if one isnt right. How did you hide the cut. Just by butting it upto the underside of the worktop? Shame the handle couldnt carry along but you can only work with what your suppliers can supply

[Colour Republic]

The dark units are a matt satin anthracite (which matches the 6m wide bi-fold doors out to the garden and port holes which you can just see in one of the pics) and the lighter units are a 'platinum' colour, which is a light french grey.

So these are all TKC doors would you believe (the ex-Uber range)


RE: the rebate I wondered if someone would notice

I asked for the Corian to be rebated on the back edge. I only wanted the island to stick out 400mm past the base units for chairs but wanted the actually steel element to be 520mm deep so you don't struggle to get a dinner plate and wine glass on it.

I also wanted to overlap the steel on to the corian to give strength to the steel so it didn't sag over time and was supported(it's 2440mm long)

The reason for the rebate was because I knew that the steel once wrapped around an MDF core would have a slight curved edge, it was also unlikely that it would be perfectly straight. So I got the corian rebated so once the 2 pieces were pushed together the tranistion between corian and steel would be pin sharp, rather than being able to see the curved aris on the steel... not sure if i've explained that well!!!

[snezza]

That looks Stunning Rob...!!!!!

We all take pride in the work that we do, BUT..........when I see pictures like that, I think it just sets the bar a bit higher and gives most of us something to aim for.

Well done mate! Excellent work

Snezza.

[Colour Republic]

Great design and the pictures look really good especially with your log in the corner.

Does the stainless steel worktop on the breakfast bar get fabricated off site in one piece or do you do it on site. Hows it work??


Also really like the wine coolers. Never seen them before. The doors look a little out but that could just be the picture. Do they fit in a 600mm single oven unit with a drawer at the bottom. Take it you had to cut the fillers at the top if one isnt right. How did you hide the cut. Just by butting it upto the underside of the worktop? Shame the handle couldnt carry along but you can only work with what your suppliers can supply

Yeah all the stainless steel is fabricated off site, I used a commercial kitchen fabricator to make them for me. Was originally going to be Zinc but changed at the 11th hour, think it works well and in hindsight is maybe a better choice considering how the design progressed during the fit.

You're right, the left hand wine door is out in the pictures but only because the door wasn't fully shut (it rides up on a little roller which makes the 2 doors flush)

The units are as you thought a standard oven base with drawer under, It comes with a 100mm filler to cut down to size (in this case 77mm) which we then touch up the cut edge with a colour matched paint. The 'sharp edge points down rather than up so the lack of aris is less visable. Although I cocked up the left hand filler as they are mitre fixed in place and I put the glue on the wrong side So have to replace.

I've just found out TKC are doing made to measure sizes, so may well order some small drawer fronts as a filler so the line carries through as you suggest. Wasn't going to but seeing as i've got the added expense I might as well do

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That looks Stunning Rob...!!!!!

We all take pride in the work that we do, BUT..........when I see pictures like that, I think it just sets the bar a bit higher and gives most of us something to aim for.

Well done mate! Excellent work

Snezza.

Cheers mate

Just glad I didn't take any close up shots where I hacked to death all the end panels and plinths to make the bar area. These long distance shots makes my work look acceptable

[Fitter Steve]

And the worktop comes as one piece. Very nice. How much does something like cost approx if you dont mind me asking?

Mitre glue isnt really the best look on door front. May as well change them to cut drawers if youve got to change one of them anyway. Dont want to look back on a nice job like that in 6 months time and think really wish i had the handle line going across there.

Also really like the door breaking the drawer units on the hob run. Wouldnt have entered my head to do it that way.

Just goes to show what you can do with a very standard kitchen door and square units. Hats off

[Colour Republic]

And the worktop comes as one piece. Very nice. How much does something like cost approx if you dont mind me asking?

Do you mean the stainless steel worktops or the kitchen in general?

Think the island and bar stainless was £1,500 or there abouts. Corian £3.5k, Kitchen 11K, appliances £5.6K, sink/tap/filter £600, glass £1.3k... plus fitting and a few extras like the boxing, false wall etc etc... think the total bill was around £27-28k ish (but should have been closer to £30k normally), still haven't worked it out. Doesn't include decorating, tiling, lighting, electrics etc

The fitting should have been at least 1,5k more than I charged, but originally it was supposed to be supply only and thought it would be a good one to do, so I buckled and did it for over 1.5k less than I originally indicated to her at the very start.


Oh the doors in the drawer run are 300mm pull outs.