I like the idea of small glass tiles, they’d reflect light brilliantly. I’m also going to try and have fewer wall units to make the room more streamlined.

Maybe you can find some stronger paint.

Good idea about the neutral colours. My brother used small glass tiles around his worktop and they seemed to make the room look bigger as well.

Well so far it’s been a bit disastrous! We thought that we could get away with painting the cupboards and re-painting the walls as the tiling wasn’t that offensive. But the paint didn’t take on the wood properly and now the dog has scratched it and it look AWFUL! So I don’t know whether to re-do it with another product, or just rip it all out and start again? I’ve seen a nice kitchen in Howdens so I might just got for that as it’s pretty inexpensive as we only need 6 units.

But the one thing that worked was the colour of the doors, despite the scratches the room looked so much bigger with cream doors on the cabinets. I think that I’ll have a fake limestone tile floor installed as well so it’ll reflect the light in and help make it bigger. I’m also going to try and find a smaller microwave/inbuilt one as ours takes up too much surface space.

Good luck with your renovation and I’d love to see photos too. I’ll post some here when ours is done

Cheers
Liz

How did your kitchen upgrade go? Is it finished? I look forward to seeing some pictures. My kitchen is of a similar size (starter home also), I am interested to see what you do make the room feel bigger and utilise the space…and if you’re kind enough pass on the tips.

Cheers,

Dave

Thanks so much for your suggestions, I do like that corner sink especially if I get a dish washer in there – that would be ideal for our needs and as you say give us more workspace.

I’ve just looked at the ‘lazy susan’ and it’s really good, it’ll be nice to know what’s in my cupboards

Cheers
Liz

Just wanted to wish you luck with your project. It is a small kitchen but I bet it looked a whole lot bigger when you had it painted.

Peggy’s given you some good advice. Just a couple of alternatives to consider:

Have you thought of a big modular corner sink?
(like this Blanco one: http://www.blanco.co.uk/test/specsheet.php?product_code=sblancoaxis9em).
It would bring your units back around the right hand side a bit – but not as far as now – and it would give you extra worktop under the window.

Or – instead of getting rid of the right hand unit altogether – consider using a wall unit as a base unit. That way you get more floor space but also some shallow worktop to put stuff on – helping to keep the main worktops clear.

Oh and one other thing. For the “lazy susan” have a look at these corner storage solutions from a distributor called East Coast Fittings (they supply kitchen companies – I don’t know if you’ve decided where to get the kitchen yet, but most individual showrooms would be able to get them)

http://www.eastcoastfittings.co.uk/storage%20corner%20blind.html
http://www.eastcoastfittings.co.uk/storage%20corner%20ultimate.html

I’m actually not entirely sure what a “lazy susan” covers but these are a whole lot better than a bog standard carousel. Which one would suit you best, depends on what sort of corner base unit you have

I hope it all goes well for you … and do keep us up to date with what you’re doing

Majjie

I’m glad you enjoyed the post x