Good point about loosing the natural light into the Kitchen.

What do you think of this option?

I do have 2 double door cabinets and a single door cabinet, maybe need to change the cabinet door -with the cabinet doors used for coner cabinets and have another cabinet next to the wall with the small bench extention plus 1 overhead cabinet.

Followed by the pantry in the middle

Oven / Cooktop next to the window with a overhead cupboard on top of the rangehood.

Hopling to get the L shape and not loose much space.

Would it look good?

Have posted this in my own thread but thought here would also be quite appropriate. (spelling mistakes now fixed!)

This is a reno of my old kitchen, house built back in 2000 but kitchen was too small. Some parts in the old kitchen were re-used, namly the cupboard above the fridge, under the sink and to the left of the skink, but everything else was new using custom flat packs, with most of the working being done myself.

All that is left is some painting, touch-up, fitting some downlights over the new bench and securing the blades wine rack properly.

Colour wise we have:

Lower cabinets: Polytech Createc Ultra Gloss White
Upper cabinets: Polytech Hazel Strata Matt.
Caesarstone: Ice Snow
Power points: Clipsal Saturn Ocean Mist
Floor and Wall tiles are porcelin, the wall is a 300x300mm tile called Vanilla Rainbow, floor tile is 300x600 called Lumina Ash, both were from Rivoland tiles in Queanbeyan, near Canberra and cost about $35m2
Mosaic tiles are called copper and came from MMM Interiors Fyshwick ACT, cost was $190/m2
Dishwasher: Bosch SMU68M05AUSS, semi integrated
Cooktop: Bosch PPH626B90A
Oven: Bosch HBA63B450A
Cupboards, flat pack from cabinetsondemand.com.au (local Canberra cabinet maker).

Overall I am happy with the finished product. I did most of the work myself, including design (with some advice from here), all that was left to the pros was the fitting of the stone and gas cooktop. Electrical was done by myself and a friend of mine who is a licenced sparky. The only thing I regret doing myself is the tiling. I should have listened to the teacher on the tiling class I did a few years back who said amateurs shouldn't touch anything greater than 200x200, anything that isn't press molded and shouldn't touch mosaics and porcelain. All our tiles match the don't touch list. Having said that I don't think I did too bas a job all things considered, especially with the floor and my mistakes on the wall I can live with.

I made a few design mistakes with cabinet sizing, a couple are a little too shallow, especially the ones under the breakfast bar where I tried to keep the bar width to 800mm so as to not eat space in the dining room. In hindsight I could have gone another 50mm and also cut 50-100mm of overhang on the seat side to give another 50-100mm inside. I also made the return where the drawers are located 550mm deep, could have gone to 600mm here too.

Most important thing is the wife is happy and must admit I am happy too. Total cost has come in at about $19000, being $7000 for the cabinets, $5500 for the stone, $4500 for appliances, plus about $2000 for tiles and bits and pieces.

Sorry if the pics are too small, for some reason the camera has small like this and next size 'up' the file is about 3meg.

Review of the old kitchen: You get an idea of how big the new kitchen is by noting where the window is in relation to old and new.
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Now for the new, from dining room
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Close up of hall side bench
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Close up of the mosaic tiles
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Cooktop and wall cabinets
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Cooktop
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Sink, dishwasher. This corner is more or less all that is left of the original kitchen.
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Floor
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Lower cupboards from inside.
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Looking back towards the dining room.
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Now for Caesarstone aficionados here is a look at our two joins. The joins as you can see are on the RHS of the cooktop and opposite in the corner near the half height wall. I reckon they did a good job, the join is an even all the way along, no bumps and put in a place where it is no obvious. Must admit overall pretty happy with the job the stonemasons did.

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Dear Forum,

in the process of planning new, custom-design home. Planning on DIY flatpack kitchen to save some money - mainly base cabinets, mostly with drawers (good quality, metal sided). I'd like a country kitchen with timber doors & drawer front and have sufficient woodworking skills to make those myself (most likely from standard size pine & pine lining boards).
My question: which company to buy the flatpacks from, and importantly, which one to stay away from? I've looked at catalogues from Ikea, Bunnings (standard drawers are not great) and Nover. Has anybody done something like this and might be able to offer some comments, opinions or advice?

thanks !!

After that, we decided to get a quote on build and fit (to our own design) a complete kitchen and it actually worked out a lot cheaper than getting another ******* flatpack.
There are lots of kitchen mobs around nowadays and the prices have come down considerably.
Hope this helps.

IMO, I wouldn't run to Bunnings 1st. Take a look at alternative suppliers to see if you can get a better deal ?
Don't know where you are located but take a look at these online companies, as a jumping off point :

http://www.flatpackitchens.com.au/

http://www.smartpackkit.com.au/

http://www.cabinetsondemand.com.au/

http://www.kitset.com.au/

http://www.kitcheninabox.com.au/