Come and admire my new kitchen!!

[Wigeon]

After almost a year in the planning and deliberating, our new kitchen is finally finished, and since I have been obsessively lurking on kitchen-related threads here, and have picked up loads of ideas / advice etc from Mnet, I think it's only fair that I reward all those posters whose ideas I have nicked been inspired by with some pictures of the final result (see profile).

It replaced a kitchen from the dark ages 1970s, and the bit with a table is
a brand new extension.

So far I am really glad about:

the pan drawers
the lovely aqua / green / blue tiles
the white gloss units and plain handles
the larder cupboard
the eye-height oven
the integrated appliances
the 3 pendant lights in a row (thank you cece for your profile pics)
the lack of corner cupboards which are never as good storage as you'd want
the integrated recycling bins (under the sink).
going with Howdens - no problems

Since I am too modest to boast post pictures all over facebook to people I really know, I thought I would get out the urge to run up and down the street saying "LOOK AT MY LOVELY KITCHEN" by posting here!

So thank you to everyone who has ever started a kitchen thread - I have read them all and my life kitchen is better for it!

kitchen is v nice. but how does one make a VHcatterpillar cake please! is it swiss rolls.

Oh Wigeon, it's beautiful.

I shall shamelessly steal ideas from your kitchen.

The tiles are gorgeous,

The three lights look amazing. A really good idea.

Head not on this morning, I meant

I want a kitchen just like that put in when we get our forever home next year (maybe different tiles). I want a range cooker instead of eye level integrated. Absolutely beuatiful though (has kitchen envy).

Can't look at the pics as I'm on my phone but sounds gorgeous. I have the same kitchen, glendevon White, being delivered tomorrow and due for install when my h has time can't wait.

lovely kitchen
really nice I love the worktop/unit colours.

what kind of worktops are they?

and oh yes please more advice about the VHC cake please talk about the icing how did you get such good colours?

Thank you again everyone!

PublicHair - full instructions for caterpillar construction here (about half way down the thread, a long post from me). Not swiss rolls.

Fizzy - I nicked the three pendant lights idea from another mumsnetter (cece), although I don't know her personally. Pictures of her kitchen on her profile!!

Wow - even more nice comments! Thank you again.

holidaysoon - worktops are wood-effect ("walnut") laminate, also from Howdens. Actually I am slightly less pleased with them than I thought I would be - although I love the colour and the general look / design, and they are very very practical (hard-wearing, don't need any treatment, wipe clean, don't stain or mark etc), the joins between pieces (eg between the right hand side run of worktop and the peninsular on the right) aren't perfect and the final edges (right at the end on the left, and the face of the peninsular facing the right side of the kitchen) are slightly scruffy (if you look closely). And I don't think it was poor installation by the builders.

But I'm not sure if I'd do anything differently next time, because Corian is hugely expensive, granite is expensive and I would definitely smash glasses on it all the time, and it would show up water marks (and DH doesn't like it), and I can't be faffed with oiling real wood and wiping up stains immediately etc.

On the caterpillar cake - you use paste colours to get nice deep colours (rather than the pastel-y shades you get with food colouring). You only need a tiny amount too, whereas you'd have to use a whole bottle of food colouring and you still wouldn't get such a good colour. You can get paste colours from Hobbycraft and specialist cake decorating shops. Another tip picked up from here! There are some amazing amateur cake decorators on the Food threads who are very happy to share their wisdom.

Oh- it looks lovely wigeon! I hope it proves fanastic in the longrun too.

thanks, my sons 'number one' looked like a giant penis if i am honest. it's dd2s 4th birthday in 2 weeks, i need to make her a cake.

Thanks for tiles details. Reasonable price, I think

Thank you for sharing your kitchen with us. Howdens kitchens look amazing but they only seem to sell to the trade, so how do you actually go about buying one?

Thanks

They do indeed only sell to trade. They can suggest kitchen installer who have a trade account with them, and you can go through one of them, or you can find your own builder who has a trade account, or I think I have read on here of stories of people (non-builder individuals rather than builders) who have set up trade accounts just to do their own kitchen. As we were doing a kitchen extension, we just did it all through our builder who was doing both the extension and kitchen fitting. HTH.

Eager to see but cannot find pic of (now not new) kitchen....

...same here Dixie. It says the pictures are private when I go onto your profile Wigeon?

last post was nearly 6 years ago...