Very briefly - We own a large-ish 2 bed terrace (was our starter home), it has been on market for a year with only 2 viewings. We have been renting 4 bed detached near to OH's work for 9 months since dd2 was born.
We are temporarily moving back to 2 bed terrace with the 2 kids and dog but are knocking through the kitchen and ex-downstairs-bathroom to make kitchen/diner first. 2 reasons for this - 1) need to make more space, 2) to make house more saleable (appreciate we're unlikely to make any money on it in this climate!). I'm going to see the guy who's sorting it for us this afternoon to choose the kitchen and am a bit scared!
Room will be 18-20ft by 10ft (ish) so not massive. It's quite dark (sun is round the front of the house most of the day, kitchen gets a bit late afternoon. I'm aiming to make it as inoffensive as possible because ideally we want to sell the house.
I am thinking white shaker style cabinets with a beech worktop something like this because the white will help reflect the limited light. I think high gloss, even though it would reflect a lot will be a bit too contemporary for the market (it's a 100 year old terrace in a not very fashionable yorkshire market town!). Good idea or not?
Then splashbacks... this is where I'm really stuck. Was thinking acrylic splashbacks for my ideal kitchen (which this isn't going to be..) - would they go with a shaker style? Was thinking they might make it look a little more contemporary but be relatively easy to remove if people didn't like them? Or is tiles the way forward?
And while we're at it - colour! White with coloured accessories (maybe turquoise acrylic splashback)? White with accents of a fresh blue or green (I think these might be best colours given lack of light...) or full blown colour?
Not so brief after all...