My preference for the width of stile and rail is 40mm minimum. I have a cabinet which has 260mm wide doors with 45mm stiles and rails. Any width less than that wouldn't look right especially if the doors are wide. I think it best to size up all the cabinet doors and drawers then do a compromise as to the best fit. Slim drawers are best left plain without the details.

Thanks Margot. I think I've more or less got it sorted. The only challenge remaining, I think, is finding a way to give it a visual lift. It currently has floor to ceiling tiles in a standard size, square, and a very uninteresting colour with no texture - but in very good order. Very dull! I hate grout in showers so I'm thinking maybe some Mr Wetwall panelling or something similar over the tiles in the shower and on the new wall formed by moving the linen cpd, plus on a part wall along the long side of the shower to replace the glass screens that I insist must go (I'm a lazy cleaner and I hate cleaning glass!) Hopefully that would be enough to relieve the dullness of the existing tiles. Then some feature shelving over the new bath tub perhaps. Not yet decided whether to install a freestanding back-to-wall bath or a drop-in, but the latter might provide scope for some more feature tiling or panelling around it. I want to open the room directly to the outdoors but the current window opening is only 1200mm wide and the wall is 8 inches of solid concrete - not easy to cut to enlarge the opening - so I'm looking at either a hinged door with window inset into it or a standard size glass swing door with a narrow window beside for ventilation. My other challenge is doors for the relocated linen cpd, as the existing mirror doors have got to go! I loathe them. As the cpd will be visible from the living area, it needs stylish doors.

Hello, We are in the process of building a new home at Bendigo and was looking for a good cabinet maker with reasonable cost to do our kitchen, bathroom and laundry. Could you please share your contact details to discuss this further. Thank you Ashlyn

bigreader and oklouise thanks a lot for your comments. the floorplan is essentially set (discovered Houzz Advice too late...). It will be just me living there (i.e. no investment / rental, etc) and the bathroom with the bathtub is my preference. The original floorplan had two bathrooms in the same place, but as I'll have very rarely guests staying over, I traded off the added privacy (and potential resale / rental benefit) for my personal preference of a large, separate tub. The bedroom is about 3.50m by 3.10m in the main area, which isn't that large but should be more than enough just for me (the double bed drawn is from the developer, not myself). It's pretty much the size from the original floorplan, and my preference is for a bigger living space over sleeping space. I might be overestimating how big the bedroom is, though. One of the reasons I went along with the separate laundry is the increase in storage space (i.e. vacuum cleaner and similar things) as the kitchen cabinet space and bedroom robe are limited. I hadn't thought about a toilet in the laundry, but somehow I think the space might be too small and the cost in terms of storage space might be too high, but it's tempting.