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??

We got oak floor to go with the oak worktop, it looks really good.
Fitting ourselves wasn't too bad, although the integrated appliances were a real pain to get level and attach the doors. Stupidly got different manufacturers for all the appliances so all the doors attach differently.
Pipes were OK with the MFI units, including the dishwasher. Oh, how I love the dishwasher.

Don't do what we did regarding the tiles.

We have just had a cream kitchen fitted in a Victorian house, and chose beautiful stone tiles for the walls. Which were fitted over a week ago.

We had chosen the slate floor tiles months ago and have been sitting in the conservatory ever since.

So last weekend, we get them out to seal them before the tiler fitted them on Monday and realsie that once sealed they changed colour and then didn't go with the stone wall tiles. (Went a purply colour)

Following a stunned silence and a few tears later, we repacked them (we'd only sealed a few boxes) and took them back to the tile store (2 car loads) and swopped them for a different coloured slate.

Great, fine. Got home took one out, sealed it - beautiful. It went really well.

So took all 200+ tiles out of boxes ready to seal and the cummalitive effect of all the different oranges and colours agaionst the different colours of the stone tiles just looked like a mess.

A bit like having flowered wallpaper and a flowered carpet iyswim.

Well, more tears, slightly hysterical by now, and a very pissed off dp.

In the end we took them back on Sunday, and got cream porcelin tiles instead.

Despite my doubts of cream on cream, they do look nice. (God forbid they don't!)

panic pants - don't I can well imagine me doing something like that.

Already have one set of worktops which are going back - don't match the floor.

Did you get a ceramic hob in the end?

Yes I did and I love it. Looks fab and heats up as quick as the gas hob did.

But I have already scratched it a teeny bit

So now on the look out for ceramic friendly saucepans!

But kitchen is finished at last [huge sigh of relief]

And yes it sooooo emotionally draining.

And fattening - we lived off takeaways for 3 weeks!

do worktops have to match a floor?
we have dark brown worktops and a grey rubber floor and is fine, honest. you don't need everything matching

How are the white abstrakt kitchens going?

I went to ikea yesterday to sit with the planning man

Mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble.

Mine is still stacked in the now empty kitchen.

Cooing on a camping gas ring. Tradesmen friends (of friends) doing install so have been knocked back twice.

So no, don't know what my lovely Abstrakt kitchen is looking. Boxed.

on the bright side lost loads of weight. No nibbling, no fridge, no kitchen.

I suspect everyone else's white kitchen's are beautiful :-( for me. ;-) for everyone else.

with all thsi sunlight streaming through......they are looking grubby at the moment, need to get my ecloth out and have a shine!!!!

but still love it

We have not started yet (sigh), dh is taking two weeks off at the end of May to tackle the kitchen.

I need to get a plasterer/tiler organised for then.

We are hoping to go into Ikea soon to get the units etc - will have to store them in our bedroom until needed.

Not looking forward to the chaos, but it will be worth it... won't it....?

Our kitchen is almost done! (Not white gloss - cream Adel from ikea...) It looks so great I can't believe it is ours! Just the floor tiles to be done now - really hard to get a tiler round here at the momet and the one quoye we've had is a lot more £££ than I think it should be - but we may have to bite the bullet and go with it just to get it finished.....

I cannot wait for mine. Perhaps this time next Sunday it will be more or less completed.

It will be worth it surely - for everyone!!

ok...smudges all gone now

KTeePee - are you getting your floor done after the units are in? Is that standard proceedure?

sorry to hijack - floors are usually put in first, then units, so there will be a smooth join for plinths

Well we are having the flooring done after the units - but if you are having units on "legs" as opposed to with a plinth, you would probably need to do the flooring first. If you are having a plinth and you put flooring down first you will be paying for extra sq metres that won't be seen - we will be having the flooring going slightly under the units so the plinth will sit on top....

Can I have updates on your kitchens please ladies!

Mine is finished! (Well there is a little bit of painting to be done still...) I love it but it is making the rest of the house look shabby!

Fab news KTeePee - I bet it looks lovely! We have had a temporary change in finances so kitchen is on hold. Will instead concentrate on repainting it and giving it a good scrub so it lasts a while longer.

We have definitely had a change in four inances as a result of getting the kitchen done! Hope you get yours soon hippi - the kitchen we replaced was in the house when we moved in - couldn't justify replacing it at the time so painted all the cupboards and even painted the wall tiles - it didn't look half bad - and lasted 7 years!

I have just (eventually) ordered my white gloss kitchen!!

Im having white gloss units and walnut block worktops - what do you reckon would be good on the floor?

Wood would look nice but might not be ideal in a kitchen?