After almost a year in the planning and deliberating, our new kitchen is finally finished, and since I have been obsessively lurking on kitchen-related threads here, and have picked up loads of ideas / advice etc from Mnet, I think it's only fair that I reward all those posters whose ideas I have nicked been inspired by with some pictures of the final result (see profile).
It replaced a kitchen from the dark ages 1970s, and the bit with a table is
a brand new extension.
So far I am really glad about:
the pan drawers
the lovely aqua / green / blue tiles
the white gloss units and plain handles
the larder cupboard
the eye-height oven
the integrated appliances
the 3 pendant lights in a row (thank you cece for your profile pics)
the lack of corner cupboards which are never as good storage as you'd want
the integrated recycling bins (under the sink).
going with Howdens - no problems
Since I am too modest to boast post pictures all over facebook to people I really know, I thought I would get out the urge to run up and down the street saying "LOOK AT MY LOVELY KITCHEN" by posting here!
So thank you to everyone who has ever started a kitchen thread - I have read them all and my life kitchen is better for it!
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Wigeon · 14/09/2011 22:23
Thank you, thank you, thank you
Oldenough - I have - see profile!
Blabal - tiles are Lagoon from Winchester Tile Company (not in Winchester 
but they have various local stockists. I luuurve them. You have to watch out with some of the colours as the small print says they aren't suitable for kitchens (something to do with copper pigments used in some of the dyes discolouring in a kitchen environment or something).
ColdSancerre - in the first pic, the peninsular unit is accessible from the dining table end, so it's basically just a normal double cupboard and a slim-ish three-drawer unit, thus maximising the space. The other end of the kitchen on both sides just runs straight along to the wall, like a normal galley kitchen. And the lefthand side run of units doesn't butt up against a wall, so no need for a corner cupboard.
LemonDifficult - your poster name is one of my favourite 
. Although was slightly disappointed to find the The Thick of It got there first (didn't realise initially despite being a civil servant myself...) 
!
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Thank you again for all the compliments!
All the tile admirers (thank you!) - I have put a close up picture of the tiles on my profile so you can see them a bit better. Colour is Lagoon in the Cosmopolitan range (on the link above to Winchester Tile Company you can click on a thumbnail to see it).
Coccyx - original towel elephant thread here - I didn't start it, but was inspired to become a towel elephant maestro (maestra?) when I read the thread .
said - thank you. Floor is engineered wood (oak), also bought from Howdens - seemed horrendously expensive, but is at least cheaper than real wood and (I am told by reading threads here!) will last and last. And we aren't moving house any time soon. It does look really nice now it's down. We haven't had it long enough to know definitively whether it's a good thing or not. Although you do have to be careful about scratching (eg dragging a heavy table across it is a bad idea).
mrsbleasdale -thank you. Units are Glendevon White (gloss), here. Good luck with your project! It's worth it in the end!
goingbacktowork - thank you also! Another pic of DD2 on my profile as she is now a very cute 4 month old.
I'm looking at the Tewkesbury White, after a silly quote for the Haworth White
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Thank you everyone! I loved looking at other people's kitchens on here when I was planning ours so I thought I would selflessly and generously put pictures of ours up and bask in the compliments .
said - tiles were £62.46 per sq m which obviously isn't cheap Topps Tiles cheap, but in the overall costs of the kitchen and extension was well-worth it I think, considering they are the main bit of interest in an otherwise quite plain design. And there were much more expensive tiles out there!
DontCallMeBaby - surely all kitchens should be at least an inch thick with icing sugar?!
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