How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

To whomever asked me about built-in wardrobes, or anyone planning to pay £££ for painted MDF, this is our current vibe, hiding 3.5m of IKEA twin-slot rails and basket drawers.

Feels like a fancy hotel room. Need to iron / steam out the trouser creases to get a nice wavey look, but pretty happy all in. Need some more art on the walls now, it's very tranquil but I miss all the colours from the clothes.

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how do you get so wavey?

This is what you need for the Twin Peaks red room vibes

Looks infinitely better than flat curtains but be prepared for the extra over spend in curtain total width.

Help me decide on what the optimal arrangement here is.

Currently, there is a solid wall where the bifold is, and a window where the french window is indicated. I don't think that we really need to replace the window with a french window - it feels like one too many doors. My wife is fairly adament but it just feels like an extra cost that we don't really gain much from.

I'd like a window that can open, maybe with some small window seat type arrangement. Anyone got any good examples/inspiration?

Cheers, did you order direct and get someone to fit?

Nice drawing 👍🏻

Talk to me - silent gliss ? You make the curtains ? This could be a game changer

Does feel like a lot of doors but I can see the use case of direct access from both the kitchen and dining room.
I wonder if the utility room should be a fixed frosted window?

Yeah this looks dead good.
Forum list time?

That seems like a lot of doors opening onto the same space but I can see why you might want to open the doors from the kitchen when eating out there. Do you need the door in the utility? Could you have a glazed unit where the bifold is instead?

Nice - will be using that :)

Yet purchase, so just a quote, you can't order direct but have to go through Thames Windows or something so I guess they do fitting too?

My wife decided to take the kids out for the day, wisely.

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the idea with the utility door is that you can go to that section of the house with mud/boots/dog etc and get clear before going into rest of house.

I want the bifold for sunny evenings where we might want the light/air in (the window is south facing)

What's with all the hate for bi-folds? Now we've got the garden sorted it's absolutely amazing to have the whole back open on warm days/evenings.

Comes from the same dark place as the hatred of Kitchen Islands a few days back

I'm double fucked then

I think if you have 10k or whatever to get decent aluminium ones with spares easily available they are a fine choice.

They are not uncomplicated things however so I wouldn't want to get a cheap one and then find spares were not available or the mechanism was poor.

I'm getting a sliding door for my extension.

They look great when open but cheap ones in smaller openings look like a sea of messy plastic when closed.
Our doors are prob closed 70% of the time so we went for sliding to have as much glass as possible.

That’s not a single says destruction is it?!

Just good old fashioned snobbery. They're good in the right context, like your place by the sounds of it.

If you have a small deck/terrace then you have to move everything before opening the doors.

They are passé - the market is flooded with cheap versions of what was innovative and expensive 20yr ago.

Haha. Glad I sugar coated my response.

Exactly, and that's a terrible reason not to have them.

We had Scucho ones (as mentioned by @dbr in our old place). Didn't cost £10k, good quality, aluminium, spares available I'm sure.

Still won an architecture award for the place didn't we.

Choosing stuff for your home based on trends is a terrible approach.