Has anyone regretted getting a white kitchen floor? Has anyone regretted anything they chose for their kitchen actually?

[Laiste]

Basically i can't chose what i want in my kitchen and it's driving me insane!

I think i've chosen a quartz worktop (calacatta with a thin additional vein of copper in it) and i think i've chosen a magnet cabinet style (tatton) but for life of me i don't know what colour to chose for the floor and to be honest can't chose the colour of the cabinets either!

If i go with a white floor to echo the quartz will i regret it? At least white/white means the cabinet colour will be easier to chose? No?

Heeeeeelp

[EverythingDelegated]

Anyone still around? Work here starts tomorrow. Gulp.

[Lemonmelonsun]

Op, I think your final coulor choices are spot on, very beautiful but classy and under stated as well

[Laiste]

Hello :) Still here!

@EverythingDelegated Exciting! Any pics to keep us way behind ones going? :)

@Lemonmelonsun thank you :)

So we're STILL trying to get through the financial hoops to get the money for the rest of our build (inc kitchen obvs). I cannot tell you the amount of stupid events which have meant it's taken this long.

[Lemonmelonsun]

Well I think! That delay has helped you come up with the best combo, are you still going with DIY?

[EverythingDelegated]

I'm feeling a bit sad if truth be told. Our old kitchen had its limitations and is falling to pieces but it has served us very well for 20 years. DCs are a bit unsettled too. Oh and it looks huge, light, bright and airy now everything has been taken out.

[Lemonmelonsun]

Everything, I am sure you will soon be loving the new look

[Carycy]

The main thing with a kitchen floor is it needs to be textured in colour and feel. I got a laminate floor that is rough/matt not shiny like a lot of wood efferent. It’s very heavily textured and shows no dirt. It’s amazing. So go for whatever shade you want but a smooth shiny surface with little colour variation will be a nightmare.
I also got a white top. I don’t regret as I just use bleach spray on it once a week and it comes up new.

[Laiste]

@Lemonmelonsun i was thinking the same thing! If we'd have put the kitchen in a year ago it would be totally different to what we have planned now.

@EverythingDelegated it's weird isn't it? You long for something to be updated and then start mourning it when it's being done Yes to the bright and huge empty space. When we finished building the living room (18 months ago), and the only thing in it was the fireplace in the middle, it was so beautiful that i mentally ditched 50% of the furniture we had in storage for that room. I keep it minimal in there, and have discovered the joy of big spaces with nothing in them. I keep telling myself just because there's a space it doesn't mean you have to put something in it :)

@Carycy 100% yes. Your post has summed up what i've learned :)

Me: on holiday at the mo in GLORIOUSLY sunny Dorset :) Our holiday house is lovely. Their laminate kitchen floor is a really good pretend flagstone

[EverythingDelegated]

We just can't do minimal, our house is small (Victorian terrace, Coronation Street style). We can't even rearrange the furniture much because walls, windows, chimney breasts and alcoves get in the way. I am gradually learning not to see space as something to be filled with more storage, but its hard.

We're away too, the kitchen has cream tiles with grey grouting.

[Laiste]

I think the kitchen here is a DIY one. I'll do some pics later.

DH is at me.

[Lemonmelonsun]

Be carful on texture floor that's what I've got and it's impossible to clean. It's got teeny groves that hold the dirt as well.

[Lemonmelonsun]

It's an agonising process, I thought I had settled between magnet and DIY, depending on how much magnet can match DIY.

But someone quite insistent has dragged me back to howdens who have given a reasonable quote, they are a which best buy as well but the lack of transparency worries me but.. Now I've got DIY as a comparison base does it matter m

[EverythingDelegated]

The design service we got from Howdens was so poor that it put us right off (we have gone with Wren). As did the pricing complications. We had a Howdens kitchen put in at work a few years ago and it's still in good nick apart from the cupboard door above the kettle where it has swollen and lifted the surface of the laminate.

[Laiste]

Mumsnet is great for reviews. Google Howdens kitchens mumsnet and there's lots of chat about them.

I'm with EverythingDelegated - we didn't get past the initial stages with our local howdens because the service was so disappointing from the off. They didn't listen to me at all and made a ludicrous suggested plan. I strongly believe that the service you receive in any of these places depends on who happens to work in your local branch. They are what links you and the products at the end of the day.

[Lemonmelonsun]

I'm getting more and more confident with DIY kitchen now, have you seen dream kitchen and bathroom on chanel five! Some amazing kitchens but I saw a DIY kitchen too and it did look great.


How's it going op, have you ordered yet!

[Laiste]

OH it's a bloody nightmare here @Lemonmelonsun! (Thanks for asking )

We are STILL piddling about with the bank trying to sort this top up loan. Tonight we are hoping we have sent the last of the documents they are requesting. Honestly - considering we already have a mortgage with them and the house is now worth literally 10+ times what we owe on it, we are having to jump through a ridiculous amount of hoops. It's very depressing.

My DIY kitchen is still in it's DIY basket on the DIY website

We have just had a nice week away. And we have now got skirting boards on in 2 of the bedrooms and the lounge. And some architrave. And we are forming a plan for the front garden, which still has a few 4 foot deep open trenches through it

How's everyone else doing? :)

[EverythingDelegated]

We have got a kitchen which has been stripped, rewired and replastered, mist coat of paint on today. It it also chock full of boxes containing kitchen cabinets, hopefully fitting starts tomorrow.

It has been a little stressy not having a kitchen, we have quite a good camping set up in the front room (fridge-freezer, microwave, kettle, kitchen table and chairs) but it is cramped, somewhat disorganised and food choices are very limited.