ok bore me with kitchen ideas Ikea only tho' blank canvas I am LOST

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Fark having no choice is better than any choice...
Basically floor being redone afetr leak - insurance job, so we are redoing kitchen. Ikea due to cost mainly plus we like it, plus we are plannign to sell after "recession" etc

So what do we do.
Glossy red on legs not plinths?
Timeless oak?
White with wood floor and work tops?
DArk with white worktops?

Arrrghhh
I am not sure I have any taste
I am not happy with cleaningfloor every 5 mins so we achoosing karndean pref oak shades or dark wood
Or if tiles soapstone/sandstone etc..
but am open to stunningly stylish folks suggestions..
Big kitchen diner too units on 3 sides
am haivng induction hob and new oven and atm we have big american fridge freezer which prob has to go for taller thinner ff.

HELP! have 4 days to decide
Hit me with it

and don;t own an ecloth. Most practical kitchen I've ever had. Had it 4 yrs and still looks mint.

mumblechum - why didn;t you come over and say hello? Your DH is so boring... nothing ventured nothing gained!

Definitely not red since you are planning to sell. Although nice, it wouldn't be to everyone's taste so opting for something more mainstream would appeal to more potential buyers. We have an Ikea kitchen and it's great. Glossy white (stat) with wooden worktops and big ceramic sink. We did opt for a tiled floor though. It looks fabulous but like someone mentioned, very unforgiving if you drop anything on it.

Our joiner was fantastic. He'd done loads of Ikea kitchens and could knock up a unit in about 15 minutes. Did the whole thing for £600 including plumbing, electrics, tiling, the lot.

yes, quick wipe with a e-cloth will get rid of grubby finger prints but how think how many times you'll have to do this?

Please do bear in mind I am a clean freak who finds it impossible to walk away from harmless marks of dirt - your prospective buyers may be unlike me ... but may be not?

oooh, and what about under cupboard lighting?

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Yes if you are hoping to selling in the future avoid anything like the red gloss. The Adel range is quite popular and classic (shaker style). And is matt rather than gloss so more forgiving if you have smallies. Would get it in wood or white/cream. If you are definitely having wood-effect on the floor white or cream would be better. And the Ikea solid oak worktops are very good value... definitely plinths rather than legs too.

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I'm cream!

If you're planning to sell I'd got for plainest and cheapest - deffo not red. I'd go for timeless oak and wood floor if you're happy with that ...

Though on the other hand often first thing people do when they move into new house is usually change the kitchen anyway ....

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I'm yellow-white Adel

With Farrow & Ball painted walls - three walls in"Pointing" and one wall in "Pea Green"

make sure you get those little things from ikea that make the doors/drawers close slowly and softly. We spent days opening our cupboards just so we could close them Only about £2 per cupboard and dead easy to fit.

Also, our Ikea kitchen was incredibly easy to install (by DH) on the other hand the dc's play kitchen from GLTC was a f-ing nightmare and took 3 evenings to complete. Not that this is relevant, but still.

oh yes soft closing for sure. Lots of drawers too. Walls likely to be farrow n ball limewhite... Guessing White tiles?

dont have white tiles - buy a few of the tiles you like and bring them home and stand up next to wall colour for a few days. White tiles look dirty next to off white colours! i would go for those lovely glass ones if i could aff0rd them - we have gone for an unpainted kitchen which we handpainted (labouriously) ourselves and we have oak worktops and upstands and painted every wall in a designer off white. Units are cooking apple green (F&B) and it all looks stunning. we went for cheapest plain floor tiles £4.99 a box from homebase and it all looks really nice and twice the price! my builder begged me not to get ikea as he said the last one he did was really fiddly and he had to charge more for the extra time (and he is not a rip off merchant). we got worktops from topworktops dot co dot uk and they delivered the next day - really good price too, cheaper than anywhre else we could find

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I'll do before n after pics too...
just occurred to me that the karndean terracotta tiles would look pretty fab... Might consider those. Have hatred of cleaning floors generally so am seeking colours that dong show muck very quickly.
pale grey tiles cod? What wall colours did you go for?

my plinths look a bit like this

I find the karndean wood-look planks don't show the dirt, I have oak in the kitchen and hall. Hoping to do the whole of downstairs in it this year, it's great.

ooh kew v nice are yours proper steel? Do they not get v mucky and dull?
can you tell I'm a slattern yet?

no mine are fake and afetr about 4 yrs they do need replacing. I would spring for aluminium or stell ones this time (am replacing them). No they don;t get particularly grubby and I am a slatern of the highest order!

4 yrs is fine we plan to sell before then
am now on tile odyssey
fired earth mosaic glass to die for... Literally death insurance would be needed to pay for them ffs £450 psqm
think gold is cheaper
have bullied talked dp into buying aluminium smeg fridge too

Ah tiles. Be careful if buying Fired Earth to measure really carefully - we bought far too many (gorgeous lovely tiles at vast expense - tried to shop around but kept coming back to them) and had about a box and a half left over at the end and they wouldn't take them back - not even complete boxes . Something to do with storage space in the shops or summat.

But they were lovely (old flat, Probably no money for same in our new place, unless I can use the spares...).

Aha good tip however have sourced nice tiles elsewhere...
I'm done with kitchens farking nightmare planning all this.