Another kitchen thread

Might as well start a thread to keep track of things. Tore out our old kitchen a few weeks ago and am in the process of installing someone else’s 10 yo old kitchen that I bought. A danish fancy type thing from ‘multi form’ that the guy I bought it from was replacing as the fridge door had broken… very odd but meant I got all the cabinets and some appliances for ~£1000 instead of £35000 which it would have cost new. Multiform still makes the exact same stuff. Pics of many things to follow.

Here’s a pic of what it looked like before it got dismantled at the seller’s house. It won’t be built up in the same U shape at ours which has cost my designer wife a few nights of sleep but we think it’ll work out.

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Pic of the old kitchen for reference. Always hated the L shape and how nothing was symmetrical. You’ll notice the cabinet with the hob sticking out from the rest of the worktop, which I assumed was for some structural reason but when I dismantled everything it was just empty space behind. Don’t know how many times I’ve banged my hip on that corner. I gave all of the old kitchen away BTW so it’s getting reused at some guys old mothers place.

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A few weeks ago.

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No insulation in the walls at all which explains why I often dreamt I was inside a dishwasher- the bedroom is on the other side of the wall. They did however leave a couple of empty beer bottles for me to find 50 years later!

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New subfloor after fixing a few semi rotten joists and putting some hopefully sound proofing insulation in. Electrics and plumbing infrastructure in place, insulation + plywood and drywall went up shortly after. I hasten to add I’ve got the appropriate professionals doing the watery and sparky bits. And a very nice Icelandic carpenter to help with almost all of the rest. I just tore down the old stuff to save money.

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What we hope to achieve, roughly

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Such wow.

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Wow indeed! Looks “proper” ! Just ordered our kitchen so look forward to following your thread 👍

Yeah, feels like quality with all the wood joints etc. The cabinets are nothing special though, standard chipboard. Todays project has been test running the dishwasher in case there are any issues. Seems ok.

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Have splurged on one of these Vola taps in keeping with the danish wanker theme. Hopefully will feel like it was worth the hassle when it’s all done.

Some stuff going in. Some tiles and worktop ideas. Will be going with boring white/gray and probably spruce things up a bit with the ceiling lights and wall colours, easier to change if someone hates it in the future.

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Today’s situation. Far wall is a mix of multiform and ikea cabinets with mdf board around them. Will be painting that ourselves. I also replaced the old built in halogen lights with some LED ones. Found a kit online with the right diameter lights, transformer, cables etc.

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I’ve just discovered my laser measure is off by 1-1.5 cm. Ffs. About to order the worktops and have measured everything over and over. Glad I caught it, two tape measures and my neighbours laser thingy are in agreement at least.

Ffs

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Idk if this was a good idea but at least they got the corner level

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Bought the floor, linoleum tiles that click together. Ordered worktops in some sort of fake limestone, supposedly more stain resistant than actual limestone. Painted the walls and quite like it despite the colour being called “gelato mint”

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Sometimes I’m really very clever. Got that spatial ability down.

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These tiles are quite vibe. Lino is so underrated.

This is great, the danish wanker tap!

I'm enjoying this. More updates please!

Thanks. I've laid the whole floor now bar three tiles. Ordered an extra package which will arrive early this week hopefully. Also the countertop we ordered wasn't in stock apparently and won't be for a month. So we've rethought the whole thing and are (probably) going with green marble instead, went to look at a bar they'd built in a pub and thought it looked really cool. Wasn't very much more than the other stuff.

The fancy bar in question

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That won't be cheap if it's all genuine marble.

Not tempted by a rough concrete finish like in your Danish wanker tap picture?

I have been very tempted by concrete, casting the worktops myself etc. Would be a lot cheaper than everything else too. But I’ve decided I can’t be arsed. Risk of fucking it up seems fairly high and I’ve never done anything like it before. But yeah, marble is expensive. Less expensive than limestone and granite though, to my surprise.