TELL US: What are your kitchen renovation plans for 2016?

8 years ago

New worktop? Kitchen island? Boiling water tap? If you're planning on doing any work on your kitchen next year we'd love to hear about your plans. Would be wonderful to see what new trends are emerging among Houzzers!

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alant1000

8 years ago

I'm mid way through my kitchen renovation and have opted for white, taupe and the dining side will be some kind of light wood. About 70% there, still needs the finishing touches. Main changes are corian and moving the oven and hob position so I can watch TV or chat to people sat at the table. Before and after below.

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winterfloods
8 years ago
Whole new kitchen for us in 2016; will be learning lessons from the previous refit and going to have current style warming drawer as our current one has been so useful. Also looking for a more modern version of our excellent Franke sorter.

Will be moving away from a combination oven plus a larger single oven to a larger single oven, a cheap and cheerful separate microwave and possibly a steam/fan compact oven. Storage - mainly in drawers to help my rotten back. Jury still out on a boiling water tap as we live in an area with very hard water. I'm conducting a test over the next couple of weeks to see just how bunged up our electric kettle gets (our drinking water is filtered twice before it goes into the kettle and it still furs up) as I'm worried about the ongoing maintenance of a boiling water tap. And as little stainless steel as possible. If ever a product was misnamed.....

A couple of things are decided though and those are to go for an induction hob with a gas wok, an appliance cupboard and a much larger island.
hardimcwilliams
8 years ago
Looking for a very large kitchen island to be made with pull out drawers for pots and pans, cutlery etc. With granite work top.
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ianthy
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Finally opening up the kitchen and dining space. I want the space to feel connected in style to the rest of the house - thinking about the floors, colours is key. We like simple design and Roundhouse is my dream but I have an Ikea budget - so a few design items will make the diff - wine fridge and maybe hot water tap and pinching their great design layouts. Also learning from my current 15 year old kitchen - you can never have enough storage. With big doors to the garden, a re-style is needed. Black fences and minimal planting is the order of the day.
Jo DP
8 years ago
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In the process of doing a small kitchen in a larger room...a cottage basement. I love kitchens that look like sitting rooms so there will be paintings (old, but inexpensive) flowers, lots of ambient lighting (lamps) & unobtrusive task lighting.

Because it is in the basement I am going back to the 80's & have "come out" admitting to my love of high gloss/lacquer. I am also going to add crystal glass handles for shine & reflection & sadly, have, weakly, given in to the general view that satin chrome is more tasteful than shiny chrome.

I am regretting this, as I want the light to bounce around as it is a low ceilinged room. I am painting the black beams, white.

The bonus ball is I have "found" an original stone fireplace behind a wall . It is a large space in a small room so I am chuffed. The range would have been there & I have put in a white gas fire stove. I have only ever read in magazines about smug women (moi) who have discovered hidden fireplaces......

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I have stayed away from hot water boiling taps that so often look like prehistoric snakes & to cut costs, stayed with simple pillar taps that say hot & cold. When I go to friends houses the taps are so complicated I often fill my glass with lukewarm tap water because I get them wrong..Oh! & don't get me started on the complicated faucets of hotel showers.

The work surfaces will be hard wearing quartz, imitating marble to bounce light. They cost more than my car. The wooden units are inexpensive. I have flashed the cash & saved the cash.

I am paneling the wall in the dining "area" to add a bit of "Posh" & delineate that space. Colours for the units are lavenders with hot pink for the interior, original, glass fronted cupboards. The panelling will be lacquered in "Pelt", a very dark purple, from F&B.

It all looks like a bomb-site at the moment, &, who knows, it may be a disaster. I have gone with the courage of my convictions ( except for the shiny chrome). I may have great taste or none. Who cares ? It's only paint after all & I think, I, if not everyone, am going to love it!
jopaddon
8 years ago
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8 years ago
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New Kitchen
8 years ago
I am so excited new kitchen going in in Feb. I have a long galley opening into the dining area. So am bringing the 2 together, ditching the stand alone dresser and bits of furniture in the dining room to create a long run. Softening the dining room by using oak work top across the units whereas kitchen is white marble look quartz. Current kitchen is very country with some open shelves and work tops covered with bits including small appliances. So having an appliance cupboard with bifolding doors and all the clutter is going. Main thing for me is removing clutter and brightening things up so new light floor very pale blue painted oak units, pale glass splash new lighting and hope to find one of the light and space Dulux colours to work but range limited. I used it on another project and was amazed it seems to have reflective properties not sure who else has similar paints maybe with more colours
gayleben
8 years ago
Here is my recently renovated, budget kitchen. Where we knocked through into the dining room. Nothing sings or dances but it's perfect for us and I love it x
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P & P Maintenance Services
8 years ago
As a kitchen fitter I'm hoping to redo my kitchen (along with much of the rest of my house) in 2016. I have done very little on my house in the last 13 years and have no floor coverings, no skirting and pink plaster walls!! 'The cobblers son has no shoes'!!!
Trisha Goodwin
8 years ago
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phillyfortune
8 years ago
Alant1000 I love the new kitchen it looks amazing! Can I ask what extractor this is as I'm looking fit an island extractor and that's a very attractive one? Thanks
Mary Mary
8 years ago
That's just perfect , where did you buy your kitchen from ?
Mary Mary
8 years ago
Sorry Gayleben where did you buy your kitchen I'm also on a budget
New Kitchen
8 years ago
Re question from another user I am buying a Prentice kitchen
gayleben
8 years ago
Hi Mary Hyland. The kitchen is from b and q. The doors are the better quality Cooke & Lewis range, with the cupboard carcasses being b and q own range to keep the cost down (who sees them anyway!). Kitchen excluding appliances cost £1880. It's definitely best to go when the have offers such as 10% off.
gayleben
8 years ago
Just to add...don't pay b and q fitting prices. You'll save a fortune sourcing your own fitter and getting it supply only. Same probably goes for any kitchen supplier. We found the difference to be thousands of pounds x
alant1000
8 years ago
Hi phillyfortune, thanks the extractor is by Electrolux, model EFA50700w, they come in 3 colours but has recently been discontinued so there are bargains, I got mine for under £400 and they are usually £1000. Have a quick search as you'll find stock somewhere.
Emmanuelle
8 years ago
My new kitchen extension should see the light in 2016! With 3 kiddies, this time , I would like it practical , simple natural materials & hard wearing. A mixture of deVol meet scandi, with lots of wood, bricks... The extra exciting thing for me, as I have never owned one before, will be... a spacious boot/ laundry room! No more tripping over shoes, bags, roller skates... I cannot wait!
Clare Jones
8 years ago
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My kitchen refit starts 3 weeks today but won't be finished until next year when I have decided on the splash backs. This has been a project 2 years in the making due to several builders agreeing to do the work only to never hear from them again & also some very poor service from kitchen shops. Finally I have a builder on board who will move a doorway to accommodate the new position for my fridge freezer and fit a Second Nature kitchen in elm that is to replace an old cream shaker one. Most of the appliances are staying as they are newish but for the first time I will have a dishwasher, a wall mounted oven so I can see what is cooking & a Franke under mounted corner sink which was a brand new ebay bargain. I am switching from gas to a white induction hob that will hopefully fit seamlessly into white quartz countertops. I am so excited, all this in a 2.6m x 2.8m kitchen. I have also asked the countertop peeps to smooth off an additional piece of quartz to fit the sink aperture so I can use that as additional work space. I am boring my boyfriend with endlessly searching for the best deals on things and trying my luck haggling which is not usually like me but lots of fun! Good luck everyone with your projects; I look forward to seeing the 'after' pictures.

alant1000 - I love your new kitchen, it looks fab!
Jo DP
8 years ago
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Clare, Now why didn't I think of that ?! Brilliant! .... an additional cut piece of quartz to fit over the sink opening for additional work space in a small kitchen. Thanks, I am going to "steal" that idea !!

P.S. I am continuing the quartz up the wall for 4/6" & not having a splashback except for a white toughened glass panel by Brittania between the range & the cooker hood. saves money on tiling & I can just wipe the paint above & hopefully wont break the seamless look. Just an idea.
Nicole Ormrod
8 years ago
im actually removing a modern kitchen , I have a very large pantry which now holds virtually everything , all the units are coming out & being replaced with open shelves,& freestanding hand built open base units in reclaimed wood with a huge Belfast sink which is also reclaimed ,