By admin, on May 26th, 2009%
Kitchens are the one room in a house that have an incredible amount of things to store and also generally get the most use out of all the rooms.
Whilst not everyone wants to spend alot of money getting a new kitchen or upgrading it, it is worth looking at adding in better storage options to make your new kitchen more user friendly. Obviously adding these options in will make the kitchen more expensive, but you will appreciate them alot more than having to reach into the back of a cupboard with doors.
Adding more drawers into a kitchen allows for better use of space and ease of accessing everything in the cupboard. There are other ways to make cupboards better to use. Especially cupboards like pantries, corner units and the seldom used blind corner.
By clicking the thumbnails below you can find more information on ways to make these types of cupboards work better for you.
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Centre Pantry
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Front Pantry
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Half Lazy Susan
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3/4 Lazy Susan
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Wari Corner
By admin, on May 25th, 2009%
By admin, on May 24th, 2009%
When choosing cutlery trays, it generally comes down to price. Whilst most cabinet makers, myself included, will include a general plastic cutlery tray, there is also the option of Orgaline cutlery trays.
Orgaline trays, are component trays. Each section is removable and dishwasher safe, giving you the ability to easily clean and rearrange the components to suit how you would like them positioned.
Whilst a plastic cutlery tray is somewhere around the $20 mark, Orgaline can cost as little as $100 and more than $250 depending on what you want to achieve and the size of the drawer it needs to fit into.
You can compare the two different options below.
By admin, on May 24th, 2009%
Having your doors close gently is something everyone should use on their kitchen and other cabinets. It alleviates the “bang” noise heard when doors close, even when they have door bump ons on them.
Blumotion for doors is the perfect tool for achieving this. Its a very simple design that just clips directly onto their hinges. When you close the door, at around about 15 degrees from being close, the Blumotion starts to work by gently slowing the door down until it reaches the cabinet edge.
It is a cheap way to achieve a gentle closing door and simple enough to do at any time, as long as you have Blum hinges. It’s also a product I recommend to all my customers and have as an option on quotes just incase they are indecisive on whether they would like it or not.
For more information, read through Blum’s Blumotion PDF
By admin, on May 23rd, 2009%
In our ever changing environment, kitchens have moved beyond the need of having handles to open the doors and drawers.
Blum have released some great products for achieving this look.
Firstly there is “tip-on”, which is used for having touch release doors. This is easily installed by drilling a 10mm hole into the gable, rail or bottom of a cabinet and then attaching the metal plate to the back of the door to allow the magnet to hold it closed.
Tip-on only requires a soft touch to open the door and can be used on melamine, wood, metal and glass doors. As long as unsprung hinges are used on the doors, the door will open to a comfortable point to be able to open it the rest of the way.
Ideally I use Tip-on on servery doors as a foot release door, it has become the perfect accessory for dealing with this situation as opposed to the old style touch catches.
Tip-on is also cheap enough to do, and works out to around the same cost as doing medium priced handles.
Read the tip-on brochure from Blum for more information.
Secondly there is Servo-drive for drawers from Blum.
Whilst there has been other products from other suppliers, having touch release drawers was always going to be a product that needed alot of design work put into it.
In this kitchen I used another product that was available at the time by Grass, they didn’t have the ability to softclose, and also took alot of work to get adjusted right. They also required a large gap between the carcase and the drawer front to work effectively.
Servo-Drive works by an electrical drive that pushes the drawer out from the back after having a gentle touch pushed on the front, allowing a no handle look to work well. Servo-Drive also works alongside blumotion on the tandembox drawers, giving the ability to have self opening and also soft closing drawers.
Whilst I have yet to install this system, I am looking forward to having the opportunity to do it. Due to the additional costs of having this ability though, it’s not for everyone.
By admin, on May 22nd, 2009%
Today I found out that a doctors surgery I fit out in February got washed out during our bad weather this week. They had 600mm of water flood through the lower levels of the surgery, destroying the reception counter and the surgery cabinets.
I never even had a chance to pop in and get some final photos of the reception counter after everything had been finished, which is a real shame cause now it will probably end up being changed from the original design.
Hopefully the insurance company will allow me to redo the work, since I was the one to put the original cabinetry into it.
By admin, on May 20th, 2009%
By admin, on May 20th, 2009%
This kitchen was installed in an outdoor entertainment area, that composed of a bali hut with buda statues.
It consists of karaboard black melamine doors and panels with 2mm pvc edges, ralpo post and rail handles, black granite tops and sandstone cladding to servery sides. The owner also wanted the fridges, bbd, pizza oven and stereo system included in the whole layout.
As you can see from the photos, it all came together quite well.
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