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You know my feelings on Laminate, Amey. There are few things more cruel to inflict on a period house. Pebbledash maybe? I am not sure.
Also have spent the last ten years with Ikea kitchen. My fucking cats revelled in pulling off the plinth guards every fucking morning because ghosts. I know there is better out there. I know it!
Howard-
speaking as the owner of an 1876 end of terrace where the previous owner not only removed every single fireplace and period feature, replaced everything with shitty UPVC (not even sympathetic) windows and doors and polystyrene ceiling tiles, completely fucked up the DPC by slathering concrete on everything in the back garden, put in the world's worst kitchen, but also merrily re-wired without a hint of legality or safety (don't get me started on the gas either) and slapped layer after layer after layer of paint on (she was there for 41 years).... please for the love of god don't rip out all the period features. there are other houses.
oh, and we have a mix of pebbledash and flat render on the front. it looks disgusting. i know this area was bombed so i'm assuming there's a jumble of brick and breezeblock underneath, so my only hope is now to paint over it.
(i don't know how baller you're going with kitchens also but i love my Wren kitchen and because i basically extreme coupon'd myself with sale + discount + special offer the entire thing - plus all new white goods - cost me £8k and they are the best tradespeople i've ever had. would recommend)
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There are few things more cruel to inflict on a period house.
Fibreglass stone effect cladding?
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My fucking cats revelled in pulling off the plinth guards every fucking morning because ghosts
What is it with cats and doing this? Mine does the same.
ioreka
Bobbo
spenceey
I spent close half of that redoing a whole victorian house. And an extension of about 500sq ft. I not only destroyed most period features but also installed laminate flooring and a mid-low ikea kitchen. Its fine if you dont use your house as some sort of social currency or extension of your character.
I cook bangin curry in this kitchen.