Kitchen

Reply to: Now that we see your floor can be matched to pretty much all colours and textures, you might wanna select the counter top first. It depends on the style you’d like to convey, but very trendy are wooden ones or dark grey quartz or white carrara marble. Going from more rustic to contemporary to more traditional style. The ones that will last you forever and are the easiest to maintain are the quartz ones, but they are quite expensive. We also like the colour combination on the photo below-would match nicely the gold metal bar stools and looks super stylish. White/brushed brass/dark blue/wood

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Reply to: We are doing a similar project and are a few months down the line from you - our builders start on site on Monday. Your architect can tell you what to focus on first but ours told us the first decisions needed (after the structural layout) are: - glazing ie any sliding or bifold doors or special rooflights or windows, choose where you are getting them from and be ready to order - kitchen, choose supplier and decide on layout so you know where plumbing and electrics are needed - plumbing layout, so think about where radiators or UFH will go, your bathroom layouts, plus any kitchen/utility plumbing. - electrical layout, where do you want lights and sockets (this means you need to know where your furniture is going!) - choose bathroom sanitaryware, as some of this has to be installed pretty early - choose floor finishes ie the exact tiles, wood etc you want - they need to know the thickness to make sure they can get the finished floor levels to match up. (carpet is not so urgent) I would recommend getting on with these decisions as soon as you can especially if you want to have time to shop around.

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