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Cheers for that! Will check them out.
I just much prefer the look over wood. I had a hideous kitchen when I moved in and not much money so did it on the cheap. Don't think the whole thing cost more than £600 or maybe £800 including fitting. It's the smallest kitchen in the world mind.
chrisbmx116-
Jesus - that's incredible budgeting. Our works have taken so long and cost so much more than we planned that we've pretty much given up.
EDIT: Not in a "We're so rich, we don't care" humblebragging way. In a "Christ, I don't care anymore, suck any pleasure/enthusiasm/will to live out through my wallet. I just want builders out of my home so I can go back, spend 2 weeks cleaning/clearing and then collapse when I realise I am only being held tightly in place by the stress of it all" way.
The laminated beech doesn't work out much cheaper than the alternatives (granite/marble/corian/etc) but it seems there's no perfect material, and laminated ply seems like the least old fashioned.
GF
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?