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If you were viewing houses what kitchen cabinet style would make you think “it’s ok I can live with it”. Basically better than the last viewed house

it’s a small kitchen with Space for three and a half floor units. Looking to sell in the next two years so want a quality kitchen that would suit all tastes.
 
Either a plain gloss white with a simple handle or a classic shaker style in a neutral colour e.g. light grey/ivory. Main thing is to keep it neutral so it could go with any colour scheme prospective buys might want.

I'd avoid wood effect as it looks and feels cheap and also avoid shaped door profiles for the same reason.

/Salsa
 
Yeah anything that's in a neutral colour like white, ivory or light grey would be my choice.

We went with ivory shaker units in our house 5 years ago in the hope it wouldn't date as quickly as some others.

I have a feeling gloss units might look dated quite quickly, especially the people who went with browns and purple ones.
 
White gloss is old hat, cheap and nasty. Looks like a 1980’s dentists.

check out Howdens and their Chilcombe Dove Grey for what is almost the perfect kitchen in terms of style and aesthetic longevity.
 
fastwunz said:
White gloss is old hat, cheap and nasty. Looks like a 1980’s dentists.

check out Howdens and their Chilcombe Dove Grey for what is almost the perfect kitchen in terms of style and aesthetic longevity.
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sadly, grey is a fad colour. Everyone’s house seems to resemble a battleship these days lol.
 
Pentland said:
sadly, grey is a fad colour. Everyone’s house seems to resemble a battleship these days lol.
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Funniest one to me is the obsession with fitting anthracite windows to bog standard houses which previously had white. IMO these will look like “rosewood” (brown upvc) windows do to us now, which were a fad around 20-30 years ago.

Not hard to change them back to white again in the future I guess
 
Shaker style kitchen in a neutral colour (said as man who sold his old house with a white gloss handle less... To be fair i really liked it)
 
Jez said:
Funniest one to me is the obsession with fitting anthracite windows to bog standard houses which previously had white. IMO these will look like “rosewood” (brown upvc) windows do to us now, which were a fad around 20-30 years ago.

Not hard to change them back to white again in the future I guess
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Totally agree. Goes hand in hand with plastic grass and porcelain patios (although the later is acceptable :p).

Not sure what the obsession is with a garden you can hoover versus something natural.

Op: I went for off-white, IKEA. This way the new owner can swap the doors in an afternoon if they choose to.
 
dLockers said:
Totally agree. Goes hand in hand with plastic grass and porcelain patios (although the later is acceptable :p).

Not sure what the obsession is with a garden you can hoover versus something natural.

Op: I went for off-white, IKEA. This way the new owner can swap the doors in an afternoon if they choose to.
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Hows the quality? We’re thinking about an IKEA one as it looks nice and is significantly cheaper than the other big players but concerned it won’t stand up to much. Few blogs seem to suggest they are much better than they used to be…
 
Ahleckz said:
Hows the quality? We’re thinking about an IKEA one as it looks nice and is significantly cheaper than the other big players but concerned it won’t stand up to much. Few blogs seem to suggest they are much better than they used to be…
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I did my Mum's in ~2014? and mine in ~2020. Mums is bang on, the only thing that is a bit dodgy is the 20cm 'pull out' cupboard but it has a revised design on my one. She has gloss plain doors. On my one with the off white (Bodbyn) I have noticed the corners of the decorative trim do mark very easily but I'm talking <1mm 'dot' like imperfection on the very pointiest bit.

The carcasses have no services gap so you end up butchering them unless you have a very modern house with services coming from the floor. I ended up putting a baton on the wall and getting a larger depth work surface.

Overall I would definitely rate them, especially for the DIYer. It helps that their range is huge and prevailing so if I wanted to, I could swap all the doors pretty easily to a different style.
 
Given the kitchen seems quite small if you can only get 3 1/2 base units in I'd definitely go for a white / light neutral colour. And plain / simplistic. Also when you do come to sell if the prospective purchasers want paint the kitchen theyre not dictated by the unit colour(s).

Agree the shaker style do seem to stand the test of time. Although I am bias, we are getting our new kicthen installed next week :p but did spend a lot of time pouring over brochures / samples
 
Jez said:
Funniest one to me is the obsession with fitting anthracite windows to bog standard houses which previously had white. IMO these will look like “rosewood” (brown upvc) windows do to us now, which were a fad around 20-30 years ago.

Not hard to change them back to white again in the future I guess
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yes! i think grey window frames make a house look like a council office.
 
dLockers said:
I did my Mum's in ~2014? and mine in ~2020. Mums is bang on, the only thing that is a bit dodgy is the 20cm 'pull out' cupboard but it has a revised design on my one. She has gloss plain doors. On my one with the off white (Bodbyn) I have noticed the corners of the decorative trim do mark very easily but I'm talking <1mm 'dot' like imperfection on the very pointiest bit.

The carcasses have no services gap so you end up butchering them unless you have a very modern house with services coming from the floor. I ended up putting a baton on the wall and getting a larger depth work surface.

Overall I would definitely rate them, especially for the DIYer. It helps that their range is huge and prevailing so if I wanted to, I could swap all the doors pretty easily to a different style.
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Good to know, they are substantially cheaper than the competition. Appliances are a rip off but the cupboards and everything else are nice.

I certainly won’t be DIY’ing it though!
 
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