Make me feel better about my new kitchen...

[ThatsMintThat]

Yes I've posted before but I've lost my old log in details and can't find the thread.

Had a new kitchen fitted. Look wise I like it, more space too. But the gloss. Oh my god, the gloss. Why did I get it? DH can't understand there are handles for a reason and I spent most of my life getting rid of fingerprints.

Anyone own gloss and grew to like it?

Does it even look nice? Or does it look dated? There's no way DH will let me change it when we spent upwards of 6k a few months ago on it.

Any advice or even positive things to say about the new kitchen? This is before and after.

our gloss kitchen is the absolute bane of my life. I use a microfibre window cleaner to clean them every fecking day.

I’ve cream gloss, just a wipe over with a damp cloth and it’s fine no issue, at all, and the benefit is the dirt doesn’t ingrain into the surface like it does with other materials.

Really? What colour are they? Mine gets a wipe about once or twice a week and it’s fine.

This.
step way back and choose to put your focus on other things: real life in fact. Focus on your child, your work, the meals you make in the kitchen. Keep a gratitude journal. Shift forward. The kitchen woe is obscuring your life.

You have already asked this??

Wear gloves 24/7 ?

I have the same style cupboards but in cream. I love them, even after 8 years. I find them so easy to keep clean. I use the Dettol all in one Disinfectant in the aerosol can and buff with a dry cloth. I find it works best as it's not super wet like a spray.

It's a nice kitchen but you really need to stop obsessing over it and asking other people. You will not get a consensus because - shock horror - these things are entirely down to personal taste. It's ridiculous to keep asking strangers what they think of it.

It’s a nice new kitchen. For the most part it might be helpful if you can just learn to ignore fingerprints, they’re unavoidable with gloss doors. Get a blue e-cloth (glass) and buff the fingerprints away at the end of the day so you don’t wake up to it if it bugs you.

I rented a house with a white gloss kitchen and yes the fingerprints are constant.

But, you like the kitchen, can you reframe it in your head to 'this kitchen is high maintenance but I love it so much more than the old one, so it's worth it'.

If you can accept the extra cleaning as the price to pay for your shiny new kitchen, it might make you less annoyed.

I say this as someone renovating a house and making decisions that are sometimes impractical but I bloody love the results.

^ for example I have a bathroom wash basin on a piece of solid oak that does not like getting wet 😂so we have to wipe and dry it after each use. Ball ache yes, but I'd choose it again.

It’s definitely better. I prefer non matching pieces which flow together (in my mind anyway) so it’s not something I would choose myself. It’s a nice colour. Do you have children? You will have to get use to sticky fingerprints if you do!

Can you not use Osmo worktop oil? It seals it.

I’ve got those units and am very happy. My kitchen is north facing so less light bouncing off the units.
When it was first installed I was forever wiping fingerprints but that hasn’t lasted. I don’t notice them so much now it’s not brand new.

I've got a white gloss kitchen, I let DH do all the obsessing over fingerprints. I don't care, it's my kitchen, not a show home. It's very easy to clean and that's the main thing for me.

@ThatsMintThat

Your set up sounds great.

I love drawers and I love having space.
Having a few empty cupboards is the dream. Great if you want to stock up a bit or at busy times like Christmas.

You've saved hard and planned well. The fingerprints are a hiccup.

£6000? That's a lot for what looks like a fairly standard kitchen. Looks like one my friend has just had installed by her housing association. I don't like it sorry @ThatsMintThat So I don't think I can talk you into liking it!

Well Done @EbonyRaven you've just done the polar opposite of what OP asked.

You couldn't make it up. 🤦‍♀️

Stealth boast 🙄

So?

I am being honest. I can't make her feel better about her kitchen. 🤦‍♀️

Yep!

Apologies as I’ve not read the full post OP

I have a similar kitchen with dark grey/charcoal coloured units and I have a micro fibre noodle sponge, I spray a bit of antibacterial spray and buff it off, works a treat, my sponge came in a car cleaning kit but I pinched it off DH when we first got the kitchen.

I love the no handles, it was one of the main reasons we got it and I was fed up of cleaning the doors and handles, just spray and wipe, job done.

It's ok. The dark worktop isn't my cup of tea but I couldn't get hung up by fingerprints.

Just turn some lights off and it wont be as noticeable.

Everyone wears cotton gloves in the kitchen

Turn off all the lights and keep curtains closed

Get it all ripped out and replaced with non gloss

Get over it