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  • Decided on birch plywood worktops with formica surfaces ala:-

    Wife (an interior designer) says formica must be matte and plain colour (she wants light grey) because formica only looks modern if it's not trying to be anything else (wood effect, speckled, etc).

    I'd rather a slate...

    ...Concrete...

    ...Or metallic look.

    Is this a terrible idea?

  • Keep it honest as 6pt said. Where are you getting it from? I have a wood work surface ATM but wish I this set up instead...

  • Keep it honest as 6pt said. Where are you getting it from? I have a wood work surface ATM but wish I this set up instead...

    We're using Winwood Products. I think my wife has used them for interior design jobs before.

    They've already supplied 30mm Beech Throughout Plywood with white Polyrey laminate, for a shelving-and-fold-down-bed unit we had made. It seems like really good stuff, and so we decided to go for something similar in the kitchen.

    Winwood can use Polyrey or Formica. Not sure why my wife has focused on Polyrey, but the samples I've seen seem decent and they sent me loads of free samples with free postage that arrived the day after I asked for them.

    They do a variety of colours and patterns in a variety of textures.

    One thing - I had to help the carpenter lug a sheet of the 30mm stuff up to our 2nd floor flat. It was 1.8mx2m and weighed approx. 80kg. That was a bit of an effort.

    Hope that helps.

    Out of curiosity, why would you rather have a laminate than your solid wood?

  • mate great work there especially with the tiling. i've seen diy'ers make a right hash out of tiling. i'm impressed

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