Yeah, we had one in the last house, and it was great not messing with a kettle. Just unsure if it's a day 1 purchase or down the line. Makes sense to just fit it in straight away though.
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Yeah, we had one in the last house, and it was great not messing with a kettle. Just unsure if it's a day 1 purchase or down the line. Makes sense to just fit it in straight away though.
Yeah. Think the sink unit is 100cm and the hob is 120cm. We could switch those around. Would then give ~25cm from the wall.
I'm not particularly a huge fan of the shaker style for this kitchen. Especially not that specific one as it was a bit more fussy than a plain shaker style. Makes the uneven drawer lines look wrong. Having them plain would blend in much better.
Cheers, it's definitely something we keep bouncing around with. I think for me it's that i don't want a load of dishes piled up on the island. Especially as it's going to be pretty central to the whole room. If something is going in the island i think i'd take the financial hit and make it the hob and then move the sink to where the hob is now.
Funnily enough my friends parents have just bought a place over here and completely gutted and renovated it. They've got the hob with a built in extractor and hate it as they said any bit of water turns it off and then want to swap it. I joked i'd have it
Have actually found a Beko one for €800 which isn't as bad as i thought. I think my main hesitation is the venting of it, it's going to be solid concrete floor, so need to do some reading on how effective it is as surely it needs a bit of power to pull the air from the hob, then force it down some ducting and then along ~3m to outside.
Funnily enough my friends parents have just bought a place over here and completely gutted and renovated it. They've got the hob with a built in extractor and hate it as they said any bit of water turns it off and then want to swap it. I joked i'd have it
Have actually found a Beko one for €800 which isn't as bad as i thought. I think my main hesitation is the venting of it, it's going to be solid concrete floor, so need to do some reading on how effective it is as surely it needs a bit of power to pull the air from the hob, then force it down some ducting and then along ~3m to outside.
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@roccles I agree, that does probably work better. I might run it by the wife, although she's keen on the symmetry. Otherwise i wonder if i could rework the surfaces so that the hob is closer to the oven, then move the sink further over to the left so that it's spread out more.
@jpaul Islands aren't ideal for eating i don't think. It's more just for company i always found. Sometimes if i made tea in our last house, my wife would sit on the stool and we'd chat. It's fine for breakfast or a quick snack too, but whilst there's space for a laptop i'd never want to sit there with one properly.
@jpaul Islands aren't ideal for eating i don't think. It's more just for company i always found. Sometimes if i made tea in our last house, my wife would sit on the stool and we'd chat. It's fine for breakfast or a quick snack too, but whilst there's space for a laptop i'd never want to sit there with one properly.
Depressingly slow!
Mid July the developer spoke to the planning department and was told it was virtually done and just needed a final sign off by the secretary, we knew that nothing happens in August and so hoped this'd be done by the end of July, alas that came and went. August was then a shutdown month pretty much everywhere. However last week we got a call to say the town hall now are waiting for an Agricultural survey from Valencia before it can be signed off. The estimated date for this is now mid October.
The annoying thing now is it's started to be questionable whether we'll be in by next summer which i was really hoping for. Luckily we're pretty happy in our current rental and we've got it for an unspecified amount of time so no pressures of having to move again in the future etc. We've bought sofas/beds/outdoor stuff etc and so are comfortable surrounded by our own stuff.
The current place also has loads of oleanda (sp?) hedges and olive trees, so now is the time to try and take some cuttings and then we'll try and plant on our land in the hope they get ~12 months growth ahead of us moving in.
Careful with the Oleanders, I only found out that they're poisonous last time I was out
How to grow oleander
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Haha i didn't either until a few weeks back, i was climbing through them trying to attach some cables to a wall behind them in the garden, after about 20 minutes my wife shouted over "Oh, be careful you can get skin issues from those similar to hogweed"
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