Owning your own home

But once it's poured and set, only a pneumatic drill is going to find anyonething that is under it.

^needs a lead layer to stop the ground penetrating radar from finding

She won't be smiling when she slips over in her socks and face plants concrete.

DAS!

Thinking about rubber tiles, currently. I am unsure how they are rated in "never find the body under this mate" circles.

feed the body through a log chipper first...

They will absorb sonar pretty well.

#HuntForDeadOctober

I did rubber tiles in my last flat. Dalsouple are the ones you are after.

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...

Or own a pig farm.

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?

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.

^winning the price wars

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.

Ha, don't worry I didn't read it like that.
I think we are playing in different leagues though... I bought all mine from ikea, built the cabinets myself, had a forum contact fit it all, re used our oven and hobs and I did the tiles and paint. And it's very very small...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/trno0m6vj13d5cv/p1020455.jpg?dl=0

Wow. Fair play - that is nice and tidy.

Thanks! It's not quite as well finished as it looks there due to my learning on the job work, but it does its job!

If I had knocked that together for a few hundred quid I'd be giving myself a nice little pat on the back every time I made a cup of tea

So, loads of Polyrey samples turned up and I'm still loving finishes other than matte grey.

I don't think I sold it last time. I think this is pretty cool:

It doesn't look like anything else, so I don't think there's anything "dishonest" about it. I think I tlike it because it looks like something NASA produce out of Hubble. The rest of the kitchen is natural oak, gloss white, and a bit of brushed metal. All a bit boring.

would pigs eat dead pigs bodies?

Yo @chrisbmx116 that looks great and I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but you can't get a good kitchen for less than £10k. The forum has spoken.

The pictures you posted with a colourful matt finish and beech ply look amazing.

That fake granite/marble effect does nothing for me I'm afraid.

We're probably just weeks (optimistically, maybe days) away from the builders finally getting out of our hair. The kitchen just needs a few more tiles grouting, scaffolding is up in the back to finish off around the windows, we need a bit of rendering done and some waste cleared, and then that's about it. I'm starting to like the house and we're slowly getting more and more of the downstairs to ourselves. Nearly time to buy a sofa...

Needs moar rage!

It doesn't look like anything else

It looks like slate, no?

This is our kitchen (also way less than £10k, but with much less input from me aside from worktop oiling and design). Unfortunately it's not staying blue.

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