We’re getting a new kitchen. This is an exciting time for us, and also for everyone we know, so please rest assured that we will be sharing stories and pictures of this thrilling adventure at every opportunity.
Having decided to buy our kitchen from one of the big kitchening retailers, we had the room measured up and then attended a design appointment where all the possibilities for filling a space with plywood cupboard units were explored in full. We compared paint samples, touched various worktop textures and considered the merits of many differnet taps. Finally, when our choices had been entered into the supercomputer, we held hands and watched as our brand new kitchen was rendered in Hollywood-style 3D graphics before our very eyes. The kitchenologist even printed out a picture of it so we could take it home and gaze on it in our own time.
Our present kitchen, as you may recall, has pale yellow doors and a wooden worktop, arranged in a U-shape around the walls and sticking out on a peninsula. Our new kitchen, which is going to be totally different and better in every regard, will have creamy off-white doors and a natural stone-coloured quartz worktop, arranged in a U-shape around the walls and sticking out on a peninsula.
While the new kitchen will be far better built than the old one, incorporating improvements such as the upper cupboards not leaning precariously off the walls and the worktops not soaking up colourful patches of everything we’ve ever placed on them, the clever 3D render is not that detailed.
When we got home with our print-out, we excitedly stood in the dining room and held it up at the appropriate angle in front of the old kitchen. It appeared for all the world to be a picture of our existing kitchen.
We have put the picture away.
8 comments on “The kitchen of the future”
With this in mind, when you cut out the old kitchen, or whatever it is you do with old kitchens, can you post it to me? I reckon I could do something with it.
I think they just come in with a big pressure washer and rinse it all out. It should just dissolve. Sorry.
Right down the drain, that’s a shame. You could have shook it, hung it out to dry and maybe put it on the side of the road and try to sell lemonade from it.
You’re right, I could. But in all honesty I can’t be arsed.
If you were in Derbyshire, you could have put the old kitchen in one of the rooms in the new kitchen and have a kind of double kitchen situation. You could undertake TWO dinner parties at the same time.
That’s a smashing idea. It’s not going to happen, because I hate it. But it’s an absolute bobby dazzler.
I’m going to market the idea to poshos and watch them flock to my small design studio in a vanilla ice cream tub (it’s all the floor space I can afford right now).
Linda Barker is going to lose her shit when she sees it.
I expect she will. I mentioned it to Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen last week and he threw his pint of Guinness at the sideboard. It’s that good.