WHITE GLOSS KITCHEN - BUT AM SLACK AT CLEANING - YES OR NO??

[hippipotami]

Am hoping to have a new kitchen in the summer, and have chosed a white gloss one. However, have two young children, a dog, a cat and a messy husband, as well as a large mudpit of a garden and access to the garden (and back in!!) is only through the kitchen.

I am not overly on top of the whole housekeeping thing - I don't clean my kitchen untill it has reached the 'Oh my word the kitchen is a mess' stage.

Sooo, white gloss kitchen - am I certifiably insane planning this??

[hippipotami]

err, that should be choseN, not chosed...

[katzg]

we were talked out of a white gloss kitchen for just those reasons. The final clincherfor me was my mum moaning about her white gloss kitchen and changing it for somethine else.

[NuttyMuffins]

Hmm well my friend wants white gloss too, and I laughed because she is very non houseworky, and she said 'yeah good point'.

[cleaninglady]

yes - certifiably insane!!! i love cleaning and still wouldnt choose one !! there are so many different options im sure you can find an alternative - or a cleaner if you go with the white one

[Nemo2007]

also wouldnt choose one personally unless you want to clean down the cupboards at least once a week.
We have magnolia doors and I have to scrub them once a week at least to stop them looking too grimy.

[Furball]

We went for solid oak for exactly that reason, no grubby mitt prints that show. We also went for matt work tops for same reason.

[boysontoast]

yes hippi. you are MAD

[noddyholder]

No gloss here either have enough trouble keeping up with the finger prints on stainless steel range.I do have white units though and they have to be cleaned a lot

[boysontoast]

noddy - baby oil on the stainless steel. a blinkin miracle it is

[hana]

I have to disagree!
We have the abstract from Ikea - white shiny units - and is fine. I give a wipe down to the units when I can see fingerprints and things , but it's not excessive

[PeckaRolloverAgain]

Im in exactly the same position !! Which one have you chosen etc etc?

I posted a thread yesterday asking the same questions - I love them but its such a big purchase I cant afford to regret it!

[PeckaRolloverAgain]

ohhh hana, I went to ikea to look at abstrakt yesterday, do you love it?

[boysontoast]

shiny should in theory be easier to give a quick wipe over than matt, which youd have a scrub a bit...



i like shiny too... but is it a fashion fad? will you like it for years and years?im not much help am i??lol

[hana]

I love love love our kitchen. it's 3 years old now and still looks fab. would have loved granite worksurfaces, we may upgrade one day... but no, it's not dated and won't date.
go for it!

[busy2busy]

Oh dear. My Abstrakt Ikea white gloss kitchen arrived in boxes today home delivery.

I didn't think about the cleaning. Looks good in Ikea though.

Not sure if it will date.www.mumsnet.com/te/9.gif
www.mumsnet.com/te/9.gif Well it's bought now

[hana]

white kitchens won't date!! have a look at any interiors magazine, or trade magazine and 99.9% of the kitchens will be white
you've made a great choice busy2busy!

[Lact8]

The first house I bought had a gorgeous white kitchen already fitted when we moved in ( it was the kitchen that made my mind up on buying)

But living with it everyday was hard work, a couple of days neglecting it and it did look grubby

Though I'm hankering after a new kitchen and I'm very at all you Abstrakt owners

[cheeryface]

i have white gloss with glossy wood tops too. i love it and it isn't too bad for cleaning.

[ucm]

The only tip I can give you is that if you have a white kitchen, you will be continually wiping doors etc so it will be clean.

[Wags]

We have got cream gloss, fitted last July, have 2 kids under 4 and 2 Dalmatians. Don't find it a problem at all they seem to look sparkly all the time and anything on them just wipes off. I hardly ever clean them, only the one that is next to the dishwasher which gets a bit dirtier. I have cleaners in but only once every 3 weeks so I guess they wipe them all over then. Thought them might look grubby but I actually think they look cleaner than my previous kitchen which was light wood.

[fairyjay]

We have a white gloss kitchen, and it's absolutely fine. Looking spotless now. And I don't believe in housework!!!

[hippipotami]

It is the white Ikea Abstrakt we have chosen. However, we also like the Beach Adel and the Oak one-I-cannot-remember-which-weird-name-it-had.

MMm, may have to think...

At the moment we have a disintegrating 20 year old grey/blue Schreiber kitchen (was here when we moved in), the doors are matt and slightly textured, and stains no longer come out unless I attack them with a scrubbing brush and a bottle of bleach.

The decor of our house is wood floorboards throughout, cream walls throughout, white skirting and doors, and then a real mishmash of wood furniture (junk yard finds and old items) The house is victorian.
So, would white Abstrakt even go with this, or do I go for a sympathetic wood. (but we already have a hotchpotch of different types and colours of wood throughout the house, would it be too much...?

AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH, I cannot even decide on my own kitchen - it is too hard....

[KTeePee]

We live in an Edwardian house and I thought the Abstract would be too "modern" for it - so we have gone for the Adel in cream. (But it is not high gloss) - maybe a shaker style in gloss finish would suit better?

[Piffle]

E cloth is what you need for high gloss
I've got the adel cream/yellow one, dead easy to clean

[Mumpbump]

We have vanilla gloss from B&Q and I am terrible at housework, but don't find it too bad. Vertical surfaces don't get that marked/dusty and if you spill something, you just wipe it up as you go... They need cleaning surprisingly little, in fact!