Navy kitchen

[Winewednesday]

Hi all, we are nearly ready to begin work on our kitchen and we have chosen to go with Navy cabinets and a white speckled worktop. I am still in need of a sink, preferably a composite sink either light grey or white. I was wondering if you have a Navy kitchen and what type/colour of sink you have? What type/colour tiles?Would live to see pictures!

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I have a navy kitchen and a white quartz worktop. I have a white double sink. I love how the sink looks but I wish I hadn’t chosen it now. It’s a pain to keep clean.
My kitchen was completed 2 years ago and I still absolutely love it.

I would go for steel underhung. White sinks always look grubby!

I’d personally try and stay away from white sinks. I had one like @ihatethecold in my previous house and while it was beautiful, it was an absolute pain to keep clean and stain free

Thank you all for your advice, I love your kitchen @ihateyoucold. I think we may go for a grey composite sink with white speckled quarts worktops

I'm still deciding what colour etc so I'm NO help, just hoping people pist more photos!!

Composite sinks always stain, I’ve owned three. Steel and ceramic can always be bleached and polished up (for many years) but once the composite surface starts to wear or stain there’s no helping it. I’d get a decent Franke or Blanco stainless steel sink.

I’d always loved the look of composite sinks until my dad moved into a bungalow with one in. It’s a complete nightmare to keep clean, stains at the slightest thing! I’m trying to get the place ready to sell and I’m contemplating swapping the sink fir a stainless steel one, as, unless it’s bleached thoroughly after every use, it looks disgusting really quickly!

@LittleOverwhelmed

www.industville.co.uk/products/old-factory-vintage-pendant-light-12-inch-pewter-copper?nosto=categorypage-nosto-1-fallback-nosto-1

these are the lights

I also have 2 of these smaller wall lights in the kitchen

www.industville.co.uk/products/brooklyn-dome-wall-light-8-inch-pewter-copper?nosto=categorypage-nosto-1

Have a white ceramic sink - easy to keep clean and classic. Villeroy & Boch have nice ones

Yes. They are really good quality and the customer service was excellent.
I would definitely order from them again.

When we converted our outhouse so my son could live in there, I went back to Industville and ordered again.

I would absolutely go for a white Butler sink. I have one and don’t find it difficult to keep clean at all. A bit of Cif / The Pink Stuff and it’s fine!

We had our kitchen refurbed late last year, we went with navy base units and white wall units (apart from the fridge/freezer as you can see it all navy) as our kitchen is north facing and gets hardly any light. It's also very small. We have a 'marble effect' worktop and went with a stainless steel sink - I had initially wanted white but after asking around my friends that have them they put me off! Feedback was they are hard to keep clean and things break easily in them. We went with a pale grey glass splashback all over, rather than tiles. I love it!

Our refurb was a cheap-ish job as we intend to put on an extension some time in the near future and we'll be ripping out this kitchen so didn't want to spend a fortune on it. What we had was 17 years old (already there when we bought the house) and was literally falling apart so this is a huge improvement.

Apologies that my photo has come out sideways! It wasn't like that on my laptop!

I went for a white butler. Happy with it.

I had white in my last kitchen and it was always stained ( it was not ceramic though presume composite).
I went for grey in my next kitchen and is easy

Thanks all, I have a white ceramic sink at the moment so I might just keep that and save my money. Lovely photo's, looking forward to having ours done

Hi all, I bought a Howdens matt navy kitchen and it is so difficult to keep clean - it's as if finger and water marks sink into the door panels.
When the sun hits the doors it just makes me want to cry !!! Ive tried everything, soapy hot water - glass cleaner, degreaser cleaners (gentle ones) it need cleaning literally every time some one opens the fridge or a drawer - does anyone have any tips please ?

We have navy units, a speckled white-ish worktop (Dekton Blanc Concrete) and went for a stainless steel undermounted sink. Although we liked the idea of a white ceramic butler sink, stainless just seems to stay looking good for many years after other materials get stained, cracked or chipped.

@Welshka

Hi all, I bought a Howdens matt navy kitchen and it is so difficult to keep clean - it's as if finger and water marks sink into the door panels. When the sun hits the doors it just makes me want to cry !!! Ive tried everything, soapy hot water - glass cleaner, degreaser cleaners (gentle ones) it need cleaning literally every time some one opens the fridge or a drawer - does anyone have any tips please ?

You'd be better off starting your own thread - maybe in housekeeping? People will probably just respond to the OP of this thread

@CasperGutman what do you think of the dekton?