What kitchen?

[emmskie03]

I have a small kitchen diner and a young family coupled with a husband that seems to make it his life's endeavour to cover everything in dirt.

We are replacing our kitchen. I really want a cream one but I recognise this is probably stupid. Talk me out of this idea please and make me see that a different option would suit better. What's good for living with absolute filthy animals!

We are looking at DIY kitchens so any comments or thoughts on their ranges would be appreciated!

A matt fi ish might not show fingerprints as much as gloss. Think brushed steel finish, not shiny.

Go for a shaker kitchen, the darker the better, or Oak to mask the dirt well :-)

I went for avoiding nice ridges in the cupboard fronts when deciding on similar. Looked lovely with all the shaker style tongue and groove effect cupboard doors but I thought cleaning them would be annoying.

We have slab style gloss - the gloss has a woodgrain type effect in it which makes it less obvious on the fingerprints front and helps - and if you're wanting to get it looking decent with minimal effort just cleaning the fingermarks off the cupboard handles and the taps perks it up no end. Because the fronts are completely flat it's really easy to just wipe them over, buff them up shiny if I can be arsed and keep on top of it all.

I think a slab style is definitely the right choice, I would love a dark colour but it will just be too much for our tiny kitchen.

I originally wanted a light colour but I think I'm thinking that an oak colour with a light worktop might be the smarter choice. That or sell the husband and kids - I wonder have much kitchen I could get for them!

My style is more country and I'm not sure if a gloss would look too modern compared to all my other home decoration and bits?