Blumotion | Cutlist Cabinet Making

Architectural Designed House fitout

By admin, on October 6th, 2011%

This is a house I just recently completed in September. The fitout consisted of the kitchen, office, bookcase, laundry, powder room, linen cabinet, 4 bedroom built in robes, walk in robe, window seat to main bedroom, hallway cabinetry and guest bedroom.

I wasn’t able to get photos of it all, but did get some, so thought its best to put them up.

The products used were Laminex white, Laminex Fossil, Spotted gum veneer, Caesar stone tops and black marble feature panels.

Everything had blumotion to the doors and stainless steel tandembox drawers throught the whole house.

Vinyl Kitchen at Bardon

By admin, on January 28th, 2011%

I was able to grab some photos of a Kitchen I completed around October 2010 over in Bardon.

This was designed as a galley style kitchen with a open plan feel and plenty of light from windows. All of the doors and drawer fronts were made from designer white satin vinyl in a 2mm radius edge, Karaboard designer white satin with 2mm pvc edges to all panels, white tandembox drawers were fitted for the softclose and blumotion to all doors. Also used Blum Aventos on the fridge cabinet to give a lift application above the fridge.

The 20mm stone top is Caesar stone Mosaica Carbone 7150 of which I’ve included a sample below for.

Kitchen Checklist

By admin, on June 20th, 2010%

I was looking through The Starting Point Queensland edition and came across the section on Kitchen Checklist which has some good tips on designing your kitchen.

Most of these points cabinet makers generally take into consideration when designing your kitchen and we generally also take into consideration whats cost effective in renovating.

A lot of the time, relocating appliances to make the working space more user friendly can be costly as well. So please take this into consideration when trying to work with this checklist.

The checklist

Has the kitchen been designed so that the food preparation area is set apart from the main thoroughfare?

Have all stoves, cook tops and ovens been kept clear of corners of the room and also is there enough space beside the cook top to swing your pot handles around?

Will opening doors on appliances be inhibited by the adjoining cabinets of walls? This one is very important especially when looking at your fridge space.

Is there a hood/flue for above the stove/cook top and does it need to be plumbed out through the roof space?

Do you have enough space behind the sink and window sill to allow proper use of the taps?

Is there provision for tea towel rails and tidy bins so that you don’t have to have them out on the floor or bench?

Have you considered if you will upgrade your fridge any time in the future and allowed enough space to accommodate for this?

Which way does your fridge door swing open and can it be reversed if need be?

Have you allowed for space for a dishwasher or deep freezer, even if they are not being currently installed? You can always have a removable cabinet installed that is the correct dimensions to allow for this.

Have you worked out what all the appliances are that you would like to have in your kitchen?

If not redoing your floor coverings, have the cabinets been worked so that they will recover the existing lines to their best ability?

Have you thought about whether you would like to use soft close doors and soft close drawers or not?

Have you looked into what door and bench top finishes you would like to have?

I will leave this thread open for comments to allow for anyone to add their own suggestions to it

2pac Kitchen at Bridgeman Downs

By admin, on January 30th, 2010%

In October 09 I was asked to start on a kitchen at Bridgeman downs. After meeting with the clients earlier in the year and discussing their needs and ideas, we came up with a design to suit the room that required quite a few changes. Some of these changes meant removing walls completely and having new support beams put into the ceiling to be structural for the story above.

The kitchen was designed with a no handle look, all blum softclose drawers, tip on to the doors, aluminium frosted glass frame doors as shown in the photos, latte and chocolate 2pac colours, brushed aluminium kickboards and Quantum Quartz pearly shores stone tops.

2pac Vanity New Farm

By admin, on June 11th, 2009%

This vanity is part of the kitchen I added a few weeks ago to the site. It was finished in white 2pac with tandembox softclose drawers, blumotion on the doors and galaxy black quantum quartz stone tops.

: 2pac Vanity

: 2pac Vanity

Softclose doors

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

2pac kitchen New Farm

By admin, on May 20th, 2009%

I have just finished this kitchen in New Farm, there was also some vanities and laundry but the rooms weren’t ready for photos yet.

The finishes used are designer white 2pac on square edge profiled doors, galaxy black 40mm quantum quartz stone benchtops, aluminium handles, blum softclose doors and tandembox drawers to all and extras of twin tidy bin aventos lift hinge and wari corner to the blind corner.

I’ve added alot of pics here to show all of these options.