Kitchen panic! Please help me decide!
We're renovating a kitchen as part of a half-house reno. The floor in the kitchen part will be existing timber in a custom mix of FW Black Japan and Walnut. The dining side flooring (on the 'top' of the island in the pic below) will be black limestone. At this stage we quite like the thought of dulux natural white shiplap/VJ cladding with some handmade tiles (zelij - not necessarily this colour) or penny rounds on the splashback (we like gum or olive greens, blue/greys). Our taps are Astra Walker French Gold. We've spent the past 4 months trying to decide on a benchtop that will work but to no avail. We like something that is lived in; not too precious or sparklingly perfect. If we go engineered stone it will need to have some kind of texture.
Layout is below. The island bench is 3.9mx1.45m, so will be a little costly, but we are prepared to pay (within reason) if the bench is perfect. We love our area and have no plans to move. At this stage we're looking at being here for 15-20 years at least.
Any help is very much appreciated!
Comments (19)
PRODr Retro House Calls
6 years agoIt sounds like you will have a lovely kitchen with lots of character and soul. I think the perfect benchtop for you would be one of the polished black concrete benchtops made by Slab Culture. Your benchtop size is a little large for re-constituted stone slabs without having a joint, but Adam and his team pour the slabs to size, so an oversize benchtop such as yours shouldn't be a problem.
Not too precious, or glitzy, the matt black finish will complement the rest of your kitchen perfectly.
http://www.slabculture.com.au/about-us/Best of luck with your kitchen renovation
Dr Retro
of Dr Retro House Calls
siriuskey
6 years agoRelated Discussions
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6 years agoKateB74
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoKateB74
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(sorry I can't manage to get the scale lined up to the plan)
siriuskey
6 years agoKateB74
6 years ago
the back wall of the kitchen is 4.0m with a 1.0m wide doorway (huge pivot door to the hall flush with the cabinetry for flow). Distance from back wall to windows opposite is 6.8m. Windows fill almost whole North wall of the dining room (each window is 1.8m square - 7m long in total) and no windows on the western wall. There's a standard sliding door to the laundry just to the right of the big kitchen (D05) pivot door, and the glass back door with adjoining pane is 1.5m wide. There's a bifold to the tv room as well (2.0m) in the dining room. J05 are built in cupboards for school bags, vacuum etc.
annb1997
6 years ago
Concrete finish also came to my mind. This one siriuskey suggested is absolutely gorgeous.
KateB74
6 years agosiriuskey
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6 years agoHi Kate, I have a new floor plan suggestion for you, opening up the Family/TV at the side of the kitchen with double pocket doors that can be closed off to help with heating, the doors can be glass or solid. There's a place for a computer desk which you can keep an eye on the kids. and a nook for bags etc near the kitchen and back door. cheers
KateB74
6 years agosiriuskey
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