If you are prepared to project manage, do some work yourself (including designing) and shop carefully you can do it for a lot cheaper. My entire kitchen - 23 units in total and worktops (they are wood block not Granite) was just over 6k (no appliances) from DIY Kitchens. I will fit it myself and pay a kitchen fitter to fit the worktops. My plumber and electrician I have paid at day rate and I have purchased all of the fittings and appliances myself. I will bring the kitchen in at under £10k with all Bosch appliances - Wren wanted over £30k for a similar handle-less kitchen with CDA appliancesOh wow, i was looking at it thinking "id love a new kitchen" but ill never afford something as nice as that
The carcases are made of chipboard and the doors and trim are some sort of MDF type material.
Our units are from DIY Kitchens and the doors look almost identical. They are an acrylic faced MDF from their Altino range, graphite colour.yep thats why i wanted to know is it some type of acrylic mdf? It looks very shiny
Worktops are in and the plumbing for the sink, dishwasher and washing machine is sorted. The induction hob is also in place. I made a roast dinner today so didn't have a chance to use the hob in anger but my god it heats water fast. It's faster than my kettle to heat a like for like volume of water when on power boost mode. An absolute revelation, indeed.
Painting and decorating starting on Monday and the flooring guy is coming to screed the floor on Tuesday ready for the Karndean luxury vinyl tiles. We're going for their 'Grey Limed Oak' colour which should match the rest of the kitchen nicely.
I'll update the thread with my thoughts about the induction hob as I use it. Will probably make some eggs with it tomorrow after work which will be interesting for me.
A few pics of course..
Worktops are in and the plumbing for the sink, dishwasher and washing machine is sorted. The induction hob is also in place. I made a roast dinner today so didn't have a chance to use the hob in anger but my god it heats water fast. It's faster than my kettle to heat a like for like volume of water when on power boost mode. An absolute revelation, indeed.
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Surfaces and final appliances by Connor Hundley, on Flickr
Same one as my parents by the look of it.
The only thing I don't like about it is that you have to switch then adjust, just make sure the thing isn't going to boil over. I'd have preferred a adjust pad for each area separate.
Kitchen looks good!
Looks nice... Units at the back; 5 doors 4 handles - is the unit on the far right perm closed?
Looks nice! I'd have personally had the sink by the window and the hob where the sink is. I'd also probably have just went for an L shape but once it's done and floor is down etc I imagine my opinion will change.
Always jealous though. My kitchen is crap lol.
I'm finding the hob is great at temperature control and is much more stable than any gas hob I've tried.
What I'm really enjoying is figuring out which number setting works for each item I'm cooking.
The hob has 18 output settings, including powerboost, which I find is ample and provides great control.
A large gaping sink on an island means the island is purely there for washing up. I hate seeing people/designers do this, keep the sink out of the way on the back wall, but within easy access of the hob and dishwasher. Then you have the flat induction hob on the island for cooking/entertaining.
They’ve tried to make gas jobs more controllable - Bosch have their “flameselect” that is almost digital. It uses separate valves for each setting so the output is the same for each number. So as you turn it only switches flame height at the number and there’s no gradual adjustment - set the number and not have to look under the pan for the flame size.