What kind of new units/work surface will work with early 60s kitchen?
vix5868
9 years ago
We are updating our mid-century kitchen (pictures attached), keeping & refurbishing the existing units. They will have white carcasses with a green/chartreuse colour on the doors (where there is blue currently), so a painted finish. The kitchen is being extended and we will need a run, on an opposite wall to the existing kitchen, of new floor to ceiling cabinets to house the oven, fridge and a larder pull out. My questions are - what work surface do you think would complement these old units? And what style of cabinets would work for the new run we need? We don't have the budget to build new units to match the old, we need to use off the shelf units at a reasonable price.
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