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Really? What was so shit about them?

actually I think I ordered a slightly different ones from Porcelain Superstore, these ones were proper shit.

Looked nothing like the pics and had a really bad fake shadow/bevel effect on them and the 'grout' was fake too

On second look yours look like different ones so fingers crossed!

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We’ll find out. I’ve ordered a sample.

Grand thanks. Have you used these ones?

What colour did you go for in the end?

Cocoa ‘salted caramel’

Looks a lot like the outrageously expensive clay floor a friend put in her old house.

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Kitchen’s almost done.

All that Douglas Fir in one place looks fucking mental tbqf. Hope the powdercoated handles, steel beam colours and the flooring will tone it down. If not, I’ll fit some Valchromat accent panels at some point down the line.

Glad the ‘fake plykea’ cabinetry worked out; it’s far from perfect but loads better than I was expecting given the labour was chucked in as a freebie.

I’ve done a few rounds with a Zipvan and picked up nearly-new second hand posh appliances for peanuts. Turned most of them on for the first time just now, luckily they all seem to work OK…

Hitting my £6K all-in kitchen budget is looking likely for now… trying not to think about the gallons of expensive finishing oil I’ve still to buy.

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All that Douglas Fir in one place looks fucking mental tbqf..... gallons of expensive finishing oil I’ve still to buy.

Is it worth getting something with a white tint and trying out some samples just to prevent you cooking in a psychedelic patterned version of TMH?

Went through ~15x different products & tints, settled on Rubio Monocoat Natural, which lightens and tones the acid-wash grain down nicely.

Embarrassingly, I copied the finish from the interior of a Hackney Central estate agent... leaning fully into 'raging cunt', I know.

I dunno, 'raging cunt' sounds more interesting than mid century modern.

Talk me through your lighting and appliance choices in the kitchen please

Out neighbours did.

Then they took it down, because their ceiling was bowing.

For one brief moment, it looked great.

That's a lot. Like.... A LOT

Can't wait to see it finished though. Hopefully the worktops will help tone it down too.

😂

I’m pretty sure our one year old roof will cope, 150mm PIR on 200x75 joists. It’s the fibreglass on 12mm OSB & firings I’m slightly worried about. That said I can walk on it fine so I can’t see a distributed load like that being a problem.

fibreglass on 12mm OSB & firings I’m slightly worried about

Out of curiosity how come? More rigid and at risk of cracking than another form of construction?

Surprisingly, there's was virtually new too.

The OSB should be fine though - my garden office has 12mm OSB (off 400mm centers on 2 x 8) and is supporting a supposed 80+kg wet weight of sedum.

Come on, go for it:

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That's the kinda data I need, thanks

You could go for neutral and then one part that POPS?
Edit @ectoplasmosis

How come I'm worried, or how come the build up?

Lighting: Lucide Delto fixed spots, Astro Ascoli movable spots, and 4x hanging pendants (not fitted yet) with ceramic shades made by a friend from the attached clays.

Appliances are a mish mash of Bosch ovens, Neff induction hob, Miele extractor, Fisher Paykel fridge etc. All second-hand nearly-new; spent hardly anything on them all.

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Yeah, it looks even more mad in that wide-angle photo than it does IRL.

I'm just not a fan of two-tone kitchens for some reason, really wanted uniformity of material across all the joinery in the room... might have to eat my words and ££ for a sheet of Valchromat lol

I will again reiterate the impressiveness of you doing this by yourself.
Looks great!
Please align these though. That will look much better.

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And are you going to bridge the gap between the overhead cupboards where the column is? That would also look much better.
You'll probably have fitting off cuts lying around

Baller!