Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: Need some inspiration for our kitchen 3Apr 08, 2010 10:57 pm Building in the Hunter Valley - 5 glorious acres. The Lakeview Lodge with Triple garage - Beechwood Homes 05/03/10 - Exchanged contracts on land 29/03/10 - Paid deposit to Beechwood homes 19/04/10 - Land settled Re: Need some inspiration for our kitchen 4Apr 09, 2010 7:46 am Quote: we dont want anything that will outdate quickly so dark browns are out of the question. Are you locked into glass splashback? Every office kitchen, cafe and display home in Austrlia has glass splashbacks. If they are not "out" they are on the way out and you are concerned with "dating". There are some fantastic alternatives out there nowadays and this is where you can get you "wow" factor. The other thing I'd suggest is consider built in cooktop and oven. The standalone's tend to date a kitchen quickly. Re: Need some inspiration for our kitchen 5Apr 09, 2010 3:22 pm Really, at the moment what is standard is a underbench 600mm oven and i have upgraded to the 900mm. I think it looks awesome, to me every plan jane kitchen has a 600mm (JMI - no offence) wall oven and i wanted something differenent. The glass splash back is something we want - all our past kitchens within a few yrs the grout is falling out, so in the upgrade bonus package they have the glass splash back. Thanks for your input. Building in the Hunter Valley - 5 glorious acres. The Lakeview Lodge with Triple garage - Beechwood Homes 05/03/10 - Exchanged contracts on land 29/03/10 - Paid deposit to Beechwood homes 19/04/10 - Land settled Re: Need some inspiration for our kitchen 6Apr 09, 2010 4:00 pm stainless steel is a nice alternative and will give a very commercial look - although scratches pretty easily. Would make a lovely splash with no grout. We're going with stopsol grey splashback - it is a black mirror finish. It is seriously WOW without having a colour that would date it - it really looks silvery-blacky-high-shine-mirror. Personally, I think that if you want WOW then the dark kitchens (like the polytec picture at the top) have it. Incredibly bold, stunning. If you want something that won't date, white keeps coming back. High gloss white is really classy and plain, flat surfaces. White also goes with anything and you can dress it up or down with whatever colours you want to add - so if you do decide to change the splash in a few years you don't need to worry about colour matching. Anything goes. Mostly If we could both afford it and convince our builder to do it, I would have loved high gloss white cabinetry with polished concrete benchtops and steel or stopsol grey splash =) Thank you so much for the effort. We will use it to talk with builder. We also had idea of building duplex instead and seeking suggest ions. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=106744 11 13830 Hi VK, I am now retired however I have stood beside over 300 owner builders in the past 18 years that have successfully built their own homes. First of all a building… 10 22663 |