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An Ideal Kitchen .. If you were starting from scratch what would youhave in yours?

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Twiglett · 10/11/2004 16:10

What would you have in your ideal kitchen ?

I'm trying to get a list of things together for kitchen designer's visit and was wondering if there was anything (apart from the obvious pan / plate storage) that you wish you had in your kitchen

So far I have
.. a place to keep bits and bobs that aren't necessarily kitcheny (kids health books / medicines etc)
.. storage for long-term things like juices (we buy in bulk)
... utility cupboard for mops / brushes / ironing board

brain dead ...

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TracyK · 10/11/2004 16:43

I saw a built in bin that tips out the way ifykwim. i'd put it under my bread/toast area - so i could just sweep it all into the bin below.

DillyDally · 10/11/2004 16:43

Is it mine or do the extractor hood type things never work very well and I am always left with a steamy kitchen. I want a gas grill to do cheese on toast but this v 70s of me

KBear · 10/11/2004 16:45

I would have a built in chef/washer-upper type thingy - don't they make them yet?

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Twiglett · 10/11/2004 16:45

my mum cut a hole in her laminate worktop and put in an old long steel box kind of thing with a lid .. she pops in a plastic bag ... and she can just sweep in vegetable peelings and tea-bags and stuff .. very ingenous I always thought .. would like one of those

but want granite worksurfaces

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MarsLady · 10/11/2004 16:45

An Aga. Love Agas, so easy to cook with. A large table. Plenty of work surfaces. Lots of hidden storage. Large windows, double sink. Flip down telly and hidden stereo.

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Twiglett · 10/11/2004 16:45

I don't get extractor fans .. they just seem to make a noise

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Gingerbear · 10/11/2004 16:53

A lever mixer tap with a pull out spray rinser like any of these - particularly the 'ratio' design

Issymum · 10/11/2004 16:56

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Gingerbear · 10/11/2004 16:56

2 separate sinks - one for prepping veg and one for washing up.

Extractor fans work if they have a proper flue and go outside, not just recirculate the air back into the kitchen.

Good lighting over the hob.

Gem13 · 10/11/2004 17:07

We have 2 corner cupboards that swing out in a circle. They are fab as you don't have to go rooting around for everything. Mind you DS has figured them out and can be found moving garlic into the salt, putting pepper onto the bayleaves!

Gem13 · 10/11/2004 17:09

We have a cupboard above the built in oven so that's where the cleaning stuff goes. So, under the sink we put the recycling (local council is good on that). Very handy and pretty safe childwise.

Gem13 · 10/11/2004 17:11

Taps like they have in hospital that you can turn on with your arm so that when you have mud or blood on your hands you don't spread it everywhere.

hatter · 10/11/2004 17:12

space for a sofa; space for a large kitchen table; book shelves and french windows into a gorgeous garden

MarsLady · 10/11/2004 17:13

I'm with you hatter.

hatter · 10/11/2004 17:17

make sure they don't do what the people who did our kitchen did (previous owners) which is to seal the plug for the extractor fan behind the hood, meaning that when the fuse went dh had to bash a hole in it! And re stainless steel - hate to sound like an advert but keeping it cleam is fab and easy with something called an eco cloth. They're brilliant

JiminyCricket · 10/11/2004 17:21

def some dedicated space for the recycling so you don't have green boxes hanging around everywhere.

sobernow · 10/11/2004 17:22

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JiminyCricket · 10/11/2004 17:23

btw, where did you get the eco cloth thingy?

beachyhead · 10/11/2004 17:26

I'm building in a cold cupboard with airbricks to the outside and marble shelves for veg and cheese, tap with pull down rinsy bit, concealed bin (worried about stinky nature now), built in ovens and microwave and big utility room with a drying cupboard with radiator in..... but at the moment, I have a baby belling, no sink and a kettle.... All in time

MancMum · 10/11/2004 17:26

hatter - you just described my new kitchen - just being finished off now - my dream kitchen with room for a sofa next to big table with patio doors onto decking into garden... shleves being built to house books and kids stuff so the room is a big family space... must be my age but am just so in love with it...

am having music thing built in but absolutely no TV will be allowed to spoil my Waltons like vision I have for this room...

other thing to think about is lighting - you need different types to create different moods.. also underfloor heating if getting tiled floors

Hulababy · 10/11/2004 17:33

Twiglett - our extractor fans (one in kitchen and one in each bathroom) are int he ceiling and we can't hear them at all. They truely are silent. It all goes up into some big system for the rest of the apartments I guess.

artyjoe · 10/11/2004 17:38

a chef

SoupDragon · 10/11/2004 17:43

Decent sized sink, not some stupid thing you can't fit oven racks in.

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Twiglett · 10/11/2004 17:48

yep definitely the space for a sofa and table

we're planning on taking down wall into dining room (which has french doors into garden .. they need replacing .. but did garden last year so its nice (but bijou as they say)

need to be able to separate laundry space so I don't have dry / drying clothes hanging around my beautiful new kitchen

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Twiglett · 10/11/2004 17:49

also want a breakfast bar looking out into dining room / den room where children will of course be sitting doing their homework as I whip up a 5- course dinner

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