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Kitchen Worktops - Corian and Quartz Questions
It seems only right that, as we are a leading Nationwide fabricator of prestigious countertops and one of the most popular requests for information on Corian and Quartz, we receive, relates to Corian and Engineered stones such as our own Prestige Quartz worksurfaces, that we answer your questions and queries on the subject in a forum. Please feel free to post questions here.
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by Mark .Y.
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Kitchen Design Issues
Do you have a design or planning query or are you at your wits end deciding how your kitchen will look ? Are you a kitchen designer who wishes to share your valuable knowledge with others ? What better way than posting here so others can benefit. News Site map RSS Feed Sitemap - 74 Topics
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The friendly face of kitchen
DIY
Kitchen DIY needn't be such a terrifying ordeal, although if you're
looking for kitchen advice we're more geared to helping advise on plumbing in
appliances or fitting acrylic worktops than helping to give your casserole slightly
more kick or thicken up your sauces. With so many homeowners hit financially over
recent months there's been a real increase in the number of people who have been
undertaking home DIY. For quite some time the popularity of home DIY has been
evident in almost every room in the house, but it is only more recently that people
have become more adventurous in the kitchen. Kitchen DIY is now a fast growing
business, and perhaps there are some good reasons for this.
One of the reasons why more people are taking the concept of kitchen DIY more seriously is the wealth of choice available. It is no longer the case that a kitchen needs to be stripped back to the plaster just to modernise or update the units, or that the units have to be dismantled just to replace a cooker, or even that nerves have to be strained when overhauling the entire room. Worktops and work surfaces are now not only available in a wider range than ever before, they are also available in almost any size, shape and design you can imagine.
The problem with
kitchen DIY in the past
Previously I think a lot of people were put off
the idea of home DIY in the kitchen because of the limited choices available as
far as worktops and units were concerned. There's one problem with having units
and worktops available in standard sizes - almost no one's kitchen is standard!
Perhaps that's a slight over statement, but if you've ever measured up your kitchen
with replacing units or worktops in mind, you may well have experienced the frustration
in the past of realising that units or kitchen worktops would need to be cut,
adjusted, cobbled together, adapted - and without some good, rock solid kitchen
advice, you were pretty much left to it on your own. The price for failure was,
of course, a distinct lack of dinner until the job was done!
Fortunately with forums and sites such as this we have a growing network of professionals able to offer helpful kitchen advice, enabling kitchen DIY to be within the reach of most DIY enthusiasts. This growing advice network, coupled with the fact that kitchen units and worktops are now custom made to almost any dimension, at prices which make it well worth doing yourself, kitchen DIY represents a realistically affordable way of renovating or modernising your kitchen yourself.
When people think of kitchen DIY often it can be a case of balking at the whole idea. After all, it involves appliances, gas and electricity supplies, wondering whether new worktops and units will line up and measure up to where existing pipes and supplies enter the house. But the truth is that these days manufacturers of kitchen worktops and units are not only able to offer much more flexibility and versatility in terms of measurement and design, but in many cases they're more than happy to offer you free kitchen advice to help you get the job done.
Kitchen
advice that's tailored to you
There's another thing too, because until
a few years ago kitchen DIY was often seen to be a matter of choosing a stock
kitchen layout or design from a catalogue or showroom, and then trying to shoehorn
it into your existing space. Fortunately today the whole concept of kitchen design
has been turned on its head, with kitchen designs, units, worktops and appliances
now available to be fully customized to suit your existing space - and more than
that, to suit your desired layout or design.
Because designing your kitchen is now about you, and about your family. How you use your kitchen, how you cook and how your family uses the kitchen as a central hub to the home is unique to you and your family. Choosing somebody else's idea of a kitchen and trying to force it into your home rarely works. People want, need and deserve to have a kitchen that they can call their own - something to be proud of. After all, your kitchen is probably one of the most used rooms in your home.
But when it comes to making kitchen DIY accessible to almost everyone who doesn't think using as claw hammer to change a light bulb is a good idea, there are so many more places you can go to for kitchen advice, such as this forum for example - just one of many places just a click away where you have access to seasoned professionals (some more seasoned than others!) who will be only too glad to lend you a helping hand - even if it's a virtual one.
