Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: Show me your kitchen... 1785Jan 01, 2012 10:55 pm AJW 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. com AJW, I love your use of warm neutrals in your kitchen, looks great And congratulations on doing it all yourself, awesome work (you're welcome to come to Melbourne and do my tiling anyday!). I have to ask, where did you source your breakfast bar stools - they're lovely, exactly what I'm after! Chrome and the warmth of timber - perfect! Re: Show me your kitchen... 1786Jan 02, 2012 7:21 am MrZebra AJW, I love your use of warm neutrals in your kitchen, looks great And congratulations on doing it all yourself, awesome work (you're welcome to come to Melbourne and do my tiling anyday!). I have to ask, where did you source your breakfast bar stools - they're lovely, exactly what I'm after! Chrome and the warmth of timber - perfect! Thanks for that. With the stools they came from Harvey Norman and are called Saturn. Domayne also sells a similar stool which had an closed back. Only issue that we are finding though is the 'timber' is starting to dent if they hit the Caesarstone top and this is with 2 adults who are careful, don't think they would last too long with a tribe of kids. Re: Show me your kitchen... 1788Jan 04, 2012 1:21 pm MrZebra Mrswudge, your kitchen is absolutely beautiful! I love the white coupled with the floorboards and the warm, chocolate splash. Like you, I'm going for white cabinetry, but with bamboo flooring and Caesarstone Haze benchtop (the palest, warm gray) and I'm very taken with your splashback colour! Do you find that it looks darker in reality (ie versus the photos), many people have mentioned this on the forum in regard to chocolatey/neutral glass splashbacks - I definitely want my splashback to be warm. Congratulations on a beautiful kitchen! Thank you! I find the splashback looks less dark in reality, as light picks up the metallic paint. The photos seem to make it more matte in appearance, if that makes sense? I am really happy with how it turned out, as the glass company had never used the colour before so I only had a small sample they made for me to go by. Re: Show me your kitchen... 1789Jan 06, 2012 11:00 am hayleydylan Well time for me to show you my new kitchen too! Feels like its taken forever but here it is! The photos are taken with my iPhone so sorry if they are not too clear Hayley, your kitchen looks fantastic - what brand/colour is the benchtop? Re: Show me your kitchen... 1790Jan 06, 2012 12:26 pm Love locking at all these wonderful kitchens on this topic. Great stuff everyone... Re: Show me your kitchen... 1791Jan 09, 2012 10:51 am AJW wildorchid We have recently moved into our new house, so thought Id share here too and this is ours (electrican still has to put in LED lights, then we are changing to saturn switch) http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww240/VLH19/house/DSCN0427.jpg I really like the way the ceiling drops down and forms a frame with the side walls. Looks great. Great choice in power points too. Only thing though with the white one is that the cooker isolation switch in the middle or something else? From the pic it looks like a 32amps switch which is normally used on an oven, however I know that the extra switch on the Saturn 4025X is only rated to 10amps. In my place I had to use an separate 32amp switch plate for the oven. My eyes could be wrong though and it could be something else altogether. thanks we have 2 the same on the splashback 1 has the switch for the slimline LED downlights that are in our overhead cupboards and yes, the other one has the cooker switch, we havent swapped them over yet, because we havent decided what we are going to do yet Re: Show me your kitchen... 1792Jan 09, 2012 4:44 pm wildorchid we have 2 the same on the splashback 1 has the switch for the slimline LED downlights that are in our overhead cupboards and yes, the other one has the cooker switch, we havent swapped them over yet, because we havent decided what we are going to do yet Did you just buy them thinking they looked the same or did you speak to a sparky first and buy what he said? The reason I ask is with standard series plates (such as your white ones), the middle switch is modular, so it is possible to get an 'oven' switch with the appropriate rating which will fit into the hole. However with Clipsal 4025X Saturn you have brought the middle switch is not modular and the switch is not rated high enough for most oven applications. This means a separate switch plate is needed for the oven. This will not be easy for the sparky to install as you have a glass splash back. In my place I have used the standard 4025 Saturn switches, but for my cooker I have one of these installed seperate to my standard outlets: http://www.clipsal.com/saturn/ranges_and_styles/cooker_switches Re: Show me your kitchen... 1793Jan 10, 2012 12:16 pm a friend that works at a wholesaler, we can bring them back (once we decide what we are going to do) the white ones dont actually bother me now that we are in. DH has the coffee machine infront of the one with the oven switch anyway, mind you i hate it being in a random spot on the bench (because we have a corner cupboard) Re: Show me your kitchen... 1794Jan 10, 2012 9:33 pm Just bought my new kitchen, I don't have pictures yet but this is quite how it will look like (if you follow the link you'll find a video clip and all the technical informations) http://www.effeti.com/eng/ProductSingle ... l=1&id=163 Re: Show me your kitchen... 1795Jan 10, 2012 9:48 pm Syl79 Just bought my new kitchen, I don't have pictures yet but this is quite how it will look like (if you follow the link you'll find a video clip and all the technical informations) http://www.effeti.com/eng/ProductSingle ... l=1&id=163 Impressive, I look forward to seeing the photos! Re: Show me your kitchen... 1796Jan 11, 2012 2:44 pm mrswudge Thank you! I find the splashback looks less dark in reality, as light picks up the metallic paint. The photos seem to make it more matte in appearance, if that makes sense? I am really happy with how it turned out, as the glass company had never used the colour before so I only had a small sample they made for me to go by. Congrats on your kitchen. Do you mind sharing what the cupboards are. Re: Show me your kitchen... 1797Jan 11, 2012 6:41 pm Thanks noki388! The cupboards are gloss two-pac matched to the Laminex colour White http://www.laminex.com.au/colour-palett ... ette/white If anyone is interested, the benchtops are Caesarstone Ice Snow. Re: Show me your kitchen... 1798Jan 11, 2012 10:40 pm mrswudge Thanks noki388! The cupboards are gloss two-pac matched to the Laminex colour White http://www.laminex.com.au/colour-palett ... ette/white If anyone is interested, the benchtops are Caesarstone Ice Snow. thanks mrswudge Re: Show me your kitchen... 1799Jan 13, 2012 3:17 pm Ok my turn now. Kitchen is all finished. I even de cluttered The benchtop... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Pretty happy with it. Our builder used baumatic appliances which we never heard of. Very happy with it so far. Re: Show me your kitchen... 1800Jan 13, 2012 3:20 pm Looks great ... very sleek and shiny! Love the splashback tiles ... very stylish For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). 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