Show me your kitchen...

I'm SO excited to be able to finally post in here. I couldn't wait for appliances, so here goes!

Our last kitchen was a nightmare- tiny, G shaped, and was so frustrating as if there were more than one person in there, you couldnt get out again, so this time we made it the feature of the house! we wanted S P A C E and we got it.
..well... space AND drawers.

Cupboards- Laminex Alabaster, Benchtops- Polytec Bundeena Sands

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Really happy with it, and can't wait for appliances to be installed tomorrow!

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.


Now for the new, from dining room




Close up of hall side bench


Close up of the mosaic tiles


Cooktop and wall cabinets


Cooktop


Sink, dishwasher. This corner is more or less all that is left of the original kitchen.




Floor


Lower cupboards from inside.


Looking back towards the dining room.


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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AJW- gorgeous kitchen, would love to know where you found those stools!

Hi there, I'm a long time reader who has had so much inspiration from this thread as we planned the open kitchen/dining/lounge room in our new extension.

A big thank you to everyone who shared their kitchens and gave me ideas along the way.

Here's our (nearly) finished end result. The door to the left of the oven hides the laundry and the door to the right of the fridge hides a walk-in pantry. Excuse their green tinge, but they both need to have a few more coats of paint.

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Smear has been smeared!

mrswudge - lovely kitchen. The colours all work well together (I do have a soft spot for all white)
Really like how your splashback colour ties in the stainless fridge & oven
What colour is it?
Also like your floor - is is bamboo or wood?