Harvey Jones Kitchens, or and other kitchens.

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I want a beautiful modern shaker style or traditional good quality kitchen.
Any recommendations?

Another Higham fan here. They did our kitchen and it is fabulous. They were also really great to work with

I have the Heritage Grey from Wickes (or Borrowdale from Benchmarx - same kitchen but cheaper). The colour is F&B French Grey. I have a large kitchen and it was about £5K. Delighted with it and it get slots of compliments. PM me if you'd like a pic.

HAve just had a kitchen fitted which I ordered from www.diy-kitchens.com - mine is a different style but they make painted, in frame styles.

Very happy with the quality. And price :)

I know that www.handmadekitchensyorkshire.co.uk for some great place for advise and design ideas, especially if you're considering a wood finish.

I love an oak (not that I can afford it!) but you can always get cheaper timbers. You might want to think about mixing things up a bit with a combination of exposed and painted timber. I've seen a few examples and it really makes a difference to the design. Make it unique in a way as well.

Hope this helps.

It would also help if I read what I write before I push the Post Message button

After a lot of research I went with www.handmadekitchens-direct.co.uk/. It has been delivered and fitted, but still to be painted (by me!) and the fitter commented on how high quality it was. All made to exact measurements .

We are mid way through buying a Harvey Jones kitchen. We are very impressed by them so far. Fab design, great planning and they guide you through the whole process. It's costing a lot, but it is my first ever kitchen that's been chosen by me, I have waited a long time!
We are going for grey shaker cupboards, a light granite and s steel appliances, ooh and bravely a wooden floor (sick to death of ceramic tiles!)

Honesty sounds quite like mine, and i love it. Wooden floor as well! (although with white oil on)

I found this blog post today and am pretty impressed with the IKEA kitchen which looks very smart, so that might be an option OP?
aubreyandlindsay.blogspot.ca/2012/09/kitchen-reveal_26.html

Staverton, what is white oil? We are going for oak flooring, thinking of waxing it, should I be oiling it?
Have u got a light granite too? I want something white/grey.

Hi - we've used a white oil by osmo on top of engineered boards so the planks look white

Granite is white and we love it!
Pm me you email and I will send you a pic.

Hmm. Maybe it's wax actually? It's osmo snee.

pm ing you now....

We bought a bespoke shaker style painted kitchen from Woodworks of Lewes www.woodworkslewes.com. It is the most beautiful and functional room in the house now. They make everything by hand and every piece is bespoke. Couldn't recommend them enough! Our kitchen cost £35K but they start around 25K and are the best quality you could ever wish for with such attention to detail and such lovely people too. Previously we bought a Plain English in our last house and it wasn't that great, quality was pretty poor and the doors quite flimsy with chipboard carcases. If you're Sussex based then I'd suggest Woodworks.

Try the Old Creamery too, rather like Parlour Farm. Plain English have a cheaper brand now British Standard...

£50,000 for a kitchen? Where are you buying it from hehe

Intrigued that you were not happy with Plain English do tell me more - were they really chip board? All this goes to prove what I thought which is that the fitted kitchen business is a rip off which makes the banking crisis look like petty theft. Think about it.....£45,000 for a load of cupboards!? How many cupboards could you buy (do you need?) for £45,000 in even a very expensive shop and then you could have them fitted all together? Plus as I have discovered it is scientifically proven that the more cupboard storage you have the more useless gadgets you will buy and use once.

We are going for a larder i.e. a tiny room the kitchen with lots of shelves = £1000 which leaves plenty of money for the Lacanche cooker (2nd hand ebay) my own "hand build" cupboards made by local chippy plus polished concrete worktop. that ebay ex display "as new" mega fridge

I would happily pay £45,000 if I thought that I would get £45,000 of value for my money but in reality you are paying for their poncy showroom in Marylebone high street plus being patronised by their snotty staff.

I have heard the same about Plain English...

I know a joinery firm in Shoreditch that is launching its kitchen ranges this summer... handmade, no woodchips etc.

If you're happy for it to be photographed for their marketing, it would come at a lower price.

I have details if interested.

I would actually be interested in this as we'll be putting a new kitchen in within the next couple of months.

Ok,

the company is called Falkus Joinery in Shoreditch. 02077494280 and the guy my friend spoke to is called Will.

Good luck!

We are getting a hj kitchen right now. They are good quality furniture but the service and installation through them has not been so good. This maybe because our kitchen consultant is new to the job and was not strong on design. Our mantle measurements were wrong and they tried to correct on site instead of making a new one. Same with having to correct our sink unit which did not work with the sink that they ordered. When you pay our do much money to a big kitchen company you don't expect things like basic measurements to go wrong.

kitchens cost a lot of money. A slightly cheaper one can do the same job and there are imitations
of inframe out there. But if you have the money to spend and like the butt hinges make sure you find a good kitchen consultant that you are comfortable with. Don't be tempted by discounts and sales. Itd all priced in and they cost relatively the same.

I'm in the process of ordering an Evo kitchen www.evokitchens.co.uk Paul has been pretty confident about getting exactly what I want (traditional oak, but non-fussy).

We got ours designed first by Karen from OnePlan then we got 7 quotes. We didn't actually go with the cheapest one - we went with a Neptune kitchen in the end .Wouldn't swap it for the world.

Plain english was most expensive, then Deverol, then John Lewis, then neptune and the others small independent studios but they didn't have the look we wanted. The nearest was a 'revival' kitchen but it looked tacky.