How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Commission your own door from nice chunky Doug fir or gtfo.

Seriously tho have we reached peak crittal yet ? Must check the renno-grams ….

Long past.
60's semi? Bang in som Crittal!
I blame the provinces.

We got bifolds this year cos the best option for our small space. Garden access is through the house only so we want to be able to open the full width when we need to. Before we had patio doors which weren't a great use of space with a small patio because the doors stuck out into the space. The bifolds fold to one side and give us more usable space.

I know they are on the naff list now but they work better for us than crittal, sliding doors or whatever the next thing is (probably small pane wooden french doors like the ones we just took out and I'm not even joking, the cottage core/Bloomsbury thing is getting bigger)

Basically, everything works on a big house so big house people are free to follow/set trends. Little house people are better off looking at what will work in their actual space.

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Great point. Lovely looking garden too.

Looks great - very well put and bang on re. Choosing what’s right for you / the space.

By the way - I neither think peninsular kitchens are the culdesac of aspiration nor bifolds to be considered passé.

Trying to wry / funny

What a beautiful view onto the garden.

everything works on a big house so big house

This is the bane of my OH's Pinterest board. It's all staged 2 or 3 wall shots that don't factor in normal living spaces - ie no plugs or power for "home offices", or real storage requirements for "nurseries"...babies are small, why would you need more than a drawer for all their clothes?

Lovely garden BTW.

I have a peninsula technically, kinda.

babies are small, why would you need more than a drawer for all their clothes

So you know which drawer / place to look in for whatever clothing you're looking for and don't end up screaming that you can't find a fucking vest with arms at 4am when it's shat itself and you want to go to sleep?

babies are small, why would you need more than a 3 bedroom house for all their clothes?

Indeed.

The catflap to oblivion. I should warn him really.

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Has anyone on here used or considered using composite/recycled plastic pannels in a bathroom around a walk in shower?

Looking at Smile Plastics right now and like the idea of using recycled plastic and less maintenance long term but it's more than 2x the cost of nice tiles per sqm.

Love that stuff - quite tricky to join I think? there’s a detailed pdf about it. If it’s hdpe I wonder if silicone would struggle to stick to it at the corners ?

It’s pretty expensive, I’ve seen it used as shower enclosure in a hotel but not sure how it’s done. I looked at using it for a vanity unit but it wasn’t £ effective

Pure vanity on my part but our kitchens been posted back up on Insta

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuPImyjntK/?igshid=NmZiMzY2Mjc=

Pleased to say that 2 years in and it still looks the same.

Lovely, what's the top made out of?

Chap at magnet yesterday (very impressive) set me straight on how impossible this Howdens boxing in of the boiler will be.
He thinks it'll be very difficult to do and didn't include it in his first sketch, though he didn't have measurements.

I think it'll look shit not boxed in...

Also magnet guy was saying big fridge/freezer space important and helps resale vs a small under counter fridge with a freezer compartment. Flat is for 2 people max really with a spare room

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Also was really impressed with compact laminate. Does anyone have that in their kitchen? Seemed solid. It's got to be that or wood at my price point because quartz is ££££

We have Howdens caldera compact 12.5mm (I think) worktop.

Looks thin and neat, solid, it's been cut and shaped no problem, textured which is what we wanted and not taken any curry stain yet.

The random pattern hopefully will hide any future grubbiness. Al in all impressed for the price and one of the nicest things about the new kitchen.

Not wood or granite which might put people off

It’s granite but passed under a row of Oxy Acetylene torches. The torch burns off some of the top layer and leaves the harder crystals to create a mottled effect. From a practical perspective it’s works as it does not show finger prints, water / grease marks as the light does not bounce off it in a uniform way.

What's the bottom image? Howdens' proposal which Magnet says cant be done?

We moved our boiler to the bathroom to get rid of that problem...

Not sure about granite, my compact laminate is pretty "plasticky" but rock solid and weighty...

Don’t see why you couldn’t box it in with the various different height and depth cabinets?

Hidying away the pipes and filter at the bottom might be a bit of a task, but should fit a 900mm tall 40 deep cabinet.

We’ve just about finished our new kitchen with a Vaillant in a very similar position - got the deeper unit (600*480*720) but ended up cutting it down to 300 deep as it just fit - the unit doesn’t hang off the back wall brackets, is just screwed to the adjacent unit on one side and to the wall on the other, with the bottom sitting on the tiles underneath.

For the pipes, I’ve just made a two-sided plywood cover that will be tiled and slot over the pipework under the boiler/above the worktop.

Will take a photo when I’m back round later this afternoon.

edit: I should add that I probably wouldn’t have been able to make it work without the help of Ian the joiner