To think kitchen Islands are the artex of the future?

[GervaseFen]

I was watching a home renovation programme and every time they stick these massive blocks in the middle of the kitchen before ripping out the walls to 'connect' to
the garden. This time the island was a huge rectangle and took up most of the room with a little table in the space at the end. I can so image the future shows having people walking around and identifying these as the first thing to rip out and exclaiming over how much space they gain.

It really hasn’t

You’re full of guff. The trend to peaches and terracotta/similar has been back for a few years now and shows no signs of stopping. The Pantone “colour of the year” for 2021 is a very magnolia-y shade of beige.
Colour of the years aren’t my thing but seems you’re wrong Bluntness.

There is a concerted trend towards FTB buying mid century homes to keep or reclaim colourful bathrooms, particularly the pastel shades.

But you always have to be right and you can never reply to the people who prove you wrong.

@HalloBrian

A lot of you just aren't thinking this through:

No kitchen island = more room for dancing around the kitchen singing with a spatula microphone

No open plan- because they can't find you in the kitchen at parties if the whole bloody room is the kitchen

Also no open plan because the kitchen is where I have a legitimate excuse to get away from my family, enjoy the peace and have my own private dance and karaoke session.

Priorities people!

I love being, in my small kitchen, on my own, cooking, drinking wine, singing and generally having a relaxing time after work. Also I can eat snacks in there without everyone knowing and wanting some. Plus my cat can eat her dinner in peace too.

Pink has been on its way back for a while. That pale creamy pink of old, almost plaster pink. It’s very warm and flattering in a bedroom.

I've been on MN for almost 20 years and I think this must be one of the wankiest threads I've ever read.

Anyway. Kitchen islands are a bit of a cliche and rather dull.

My grandparents had a pink and black bathroom and it was gorgeous.

IMO. YMMV.

If someone buys a house with a coloured bathroom suite they rip it out as quickly as they can afford

They did once, not any more. When I renovated my parents’ house a London couple bought the avocado suite for more money than I ever dreamed possible, they were over the moon because the bath was cast iron.

The bathroom suite in this house has become wildly fashionable.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72034299.html

Wildly fashionable??

There is a concerted trend towards FTB buying mid century homes to keep or reclaim colourful bathrooms, particularly the pastel shades.

Yes, I have seen articles on how to reglaze coloured baths. I think this trend has been around for a few years. Obviously it depends on the quality of the fittings, but that is true of any retro/vintage/antique fashion.

I work in bathroom and kitchen design and the industry has been trying to push coloured bathrooms for about 5 years now, they really have not taken off in the mainstream market as yet and I don’t think they will, I actually quite like the new versions which are beautiful designs and not like the one Vinyl posted, in a high end house renovation someone may want an avocado coloured bath (it is very rare) but they won’t want the cheap version from an eighties house they want today’s version.

www.yellowbrickhome.com/can-you-reglaze-a-pink-bathtub/

I agree that this trend hasn't reached everyone, but it does exist.

Germolene pink and forest green bathrooms were all over Instagram last year.

Clients aspire to this

They really are not retaining or seeking out this, big difference.

Wildly fashionable??

As opposed to mainstream. Very out there.

I love that wallpaper...

@ZaraCarmichaelshighheels that is beautiful, you can see it in a very trendy hotel in Brighton!

Kitchen islands are dull? Are kitchen tables..interesting and exciting? Or what else do you have in your kitchens that's not dull, swings and stripper poles?

Anyway. Kitchen islands are a bit of a cliche and rather dull.

The ones I know are fascinating.

Declaring any functional piece of furniture "dull" is a bit odd, really 😂

Haven’t fully read up to the end but I can’t believe en suites are also getting a bashing.

Is is just en suites or second bathrooms? I’d build an en suite and lose space in my bedroom purely for the fact I have 3 sons and it’s inevitable that one or poss two of them will come in for a shit while I’m in in the shower 😂

I suspect the next thing will be the 'reverse Yorkshiremen sketch' - "our kitchen's so big we couldn't have t'island - we 'ad to 'ave a bloody kitchen country"
"Kitchen Country?... That's nothing. We 'ave a Kitchen Continent, we 'ave"

I think that will do now... I can't recall the sequence of planets by relative size.

We have just done our kitchen extension and it has a relatively small island as there is not enough worktop space otherwise, and a kitchen table. I love them both - island for pastry making and chatting whilst working, cooking etc. Table for cosy times and reading the paper (retro) with a coffee. The table is in a space where it’s soft lighting in the evening, feels so lovely to sit there with a glass of wine after dinner - our previous kitchen was tiny and I wanted something like my childhood home where the kitchen was the hub of the house.
I have got French doors with windows either side, lower than usual as a bit of a feature so you could almost make a little window seat of them. I love, love, love them. The builders couldn’t stop boring on about why we weren’t having bifold doors and a bigger island instead of a table. Once they were finished the builder decided he might go for the same look in his barn conversion (for the bedroom though). I have nothing against bifolds but ours is an older house and I just think the Georgian French windows look so much more mellow and lovely.
What I have noticed is the number of people knocking their kitchen and utility room into one. We have kept our utility room as my DH has an abhorrence for the noise of the washing machine Its like a boot room with a hanging airer and a little alcove with full height cupboards. Lots of friends thought we were mad and wasting the space where we could have had a bigger island or a TV and a sofa....why???

@BoxAndKnife

I've been on MN for almost 20 years and I think this must be one of the wankiest threads I've ever read.

Anyway. Kitchen islands are a bit of a cliche and rather dull.

My grandparents had a pink and black bathroom and it was gorgeous.

IMO. YMMV.

I thought big practical tables were dull and a bit of a cliche...

... Not really sure what makes them terribly different from kitchen islands tbh!

Im also pissing myself at the idea that everyone is lying about having them rather than the thread being a magnet for people with kitchen islands. That also happens on the internet - people are drawn to things that happen and are relevant to their lives. Not just trolling.

Im kinda wondering what happens in the big houses people walk past or drive past daily. Do people think they are uninhabited or full of lizards or something?

What I have noticed is the number of people knocking their kitchen and utility room into one.

We didn't do that as we would have lost our downstairs loo! Our utility room has the dishwasher and washing machine and a broom cupboard for storing buckets, mops etc.

People have been known to post pictures of hotel rooms claiming they are their own bedrooms. So it's not beyond the realms of possibility that someone might post a picture of a kitchen from a website or interiors magazine as their own.

@sunglassesonthetable

In no shape nor form has pink bathroom suites made a come back..honestly don’t believe it’s fashionable as someone wrote an article on it. 🤣

Didn't say it was fashionable!🙄

Just saying I'm beginning to see "something". Maybe I'm on alert as I work in this sector.

Sophie Robinson Interiors just put one in her bathroom. And she would as she adores colour. And they are getting expensive ( pink) on ebay.

Sometimes things take YEARS to trickle down - ( if they do at all )
Just like skinny jeans.
And then you can't remember when you didn't wear them.

I wouldn't go ripping out your white though!

I think you are right. All kinds of companies are now offering mid-century colours and remaking discontinued lines. Including things like parts for coloured toilets, or metal rings to go around sinks, old laminate and tile patterns.

Ten years ago it was very difficult to get replacement parts or a new pink toilet to match a set in place, and now there is a lot more availability.

I like some of the good quality pink bathrooms, but I love jade green bathroom suits, no way I'd rip one out!