Do I have awful taste in kitchens.

We had open plan sitting room/dining/kitchen when the children were young and I longed for separate spaces. Watching all these 'homes' programmes on TV I wonder if the fashion will swing back to more separate spaces and bossy Kirsty will have to be advising building walls rather than knocking them down?

Sleek, shiny and modern for me every time. Ours is like that with huge picture windows. It's lovely and everyone ooohs and aaahs when they see it. I love clean lines and modern furniture but not to the point where it's sterile.

I’m with the traditionalists on kitchens. I like a homely, warm look not the sterile modern and don’t gat me going on grey and white. I spend a great deal of time in my kitchen and like it to be warm and friendly.

I think open plan becomes very impractical once children start to grow up and need rooms to do homework, practice the piano, have friends over etc.
I think it's a fashion that might soon have had its day.

kittylester

I was reading the other day that wfh means people are looking for separate rooms now more than huge spaces.

Do you think that is because working from home now means people need separate rooms to set up office on the table? You can't have dishwashers gurgling and breadmakers whirring while on an important zoom call!

I was reading the other day that wfh means people are looking for separate rooms now more than huge spaces.

Most modern kitchens aren't worth the money.

We are planning a new kitchen- but it will be modern but with a touch of rustic and warmth- and there will be NO island. Our huge oak table with 4 extra leaves will remain, and the French (from France) dresser will also remain.

I am a kitchen person- we live in it, entertain in it. So no, you are not alone.

To each their own, but Sago's kitchen would appeal to me far more than a glossy grey/navy and chrome style kitchen.

I’m a little embarrassed after putting up the picture of my dresser?.
It’s a dumping ground and really needs a sort out.
Here’s a picture of my kitchen from the opposite side.
I don’t want you to have an image off me surrounded by old newspapers,plastic bags and cardboard boxes.

Sago

Confession time….. here’s my kitchen dresser that somehow I never get around to sorting?

I have two of those mugs, middle top shelf, Sago!

Past Times? I never use them.

this year last year, still not mentally in 2022 yet!

We moved to a house this year with a shiny white kitchen complete with long counter inset with hob and sink, the ovens are set into units across one wall, sideways on from it and I also have a good sized utility with further work surfaces for kettle/toaster and other paraphernalia. I love the counter bit because it faces out through bifold doors onto the garden, plus it provides me with more than enough preparation space. .Although, when our surveyor's report came back that actually pointed out that we might get fed up walking round what effectively is a very long counter, and yes I do at times, particularly when I need a piece of equipment which is sited round the other side. I'd also admit when the sun shines in a certain way it hits the shiny parts of the kitchen cupboard doors, highlighting little smudges, and such times I feel compelled to attack those with Flash. I suppose a white kitchen could be considered something akin to a science lab, but my counter surface is often strewn with ingredients and chopping boards, not Bunsen burners, but I understand that point of view, when such kitchens are displayed appearance wise, in a very clinical way. Whilst I'm happy with this kitchen and it kind of sold the house to me, I can appreciate other styles too. I like mix and match, previously I had a Shaker style kitchen, the freestanding dresser I had in that has been moved into the dining room with all my eclectic bits of china.

Your kitchen sounds gorgeous LauraNorder.
I think you need to live in a house for a while to know what works best for you.

No such thing as bad taste in kitchens. If you love it it’s your taste. Also change in taste is not necessarily being a slave to fashion.
In 1970 we were delighted with our lemon and wood grain hygena units. More recently we have had a lovely hand painted farmhouse kitchen, cream with big wooden knobs and oak work tops. Looked stunning but impractical layout and worktop maintenance was hard work.
Now we have a large kitchen in an old farmhouse. Sage green shaker style units and white silestone worktops. We have a wall of tall cupboards, range cooker and fridge freezer. The opposite wall has a bank of big pan drawers. There is a large island in the centre of the room incorporating sink, waste disposal, dishwasher, cupboards. The other side of the island has four stools where friends sit to chat while I cook.
It is by far the most practical kitchen we’ve ever had and I love it. No dead corners.
It doesn’t look like a lab as there are open wood shelves, lots of baskets and colourful paintings on the walls.

My kitchen was new some 17 years ago. It’s cream Shaker and despite the demands of family life with four children, GC, cats and a dog you could put it back in the showroom (it’s still available as a style). If I had a replacement, I’d choose the same again, I love it.

It’s also a family room and I have two walls papered in a Laura Ashley exotic birds paper and picked out the yellow for the other walls and utility room. It faces north and west so I wouldn’t have grey - living in Scotland you see enough grey in the sky as it is!

My sympathies on the floor front Coastpath. The only way to deal with our grout is to get down and scrub it with grout cleaner and needless to say that doesn’t happen too frequently. The tiles seem to attract the dog’s fur like a magnet too (shepherds shed all the time). I have a list of Things That I Will Never Have Again (the dog isn’t on it of course!).

I keep trying to get my husband to agree to replace our impossible kitchen tiles with the bl**dy white grout with Karndean Jax. But they would have to be taken up, as we have underfloor heating Karndean on top would probably be a recipe for huge bills.

I'm not a fan of modern kitchens - all those shiny surfaces and big wide drawers make me think of the morgue!

Sago Your dresser is my idea of heaven. Reminds me of the beautiful dresser wallpaper by Emma Bridgewater.

Germanshepherdsmum I too also inherited the white grout between floor tiles. Totally impossible to keep white!! Mine is coupled with black slate which is hopeless as I have a ginger and white dog who sheds constantly.

Nice Whitewavemark2, and actually that mix and match style can work in the kitchen itself. So I could have the traditional Shaker base units and drawers in pink and then the tall larder cupboards in contrasting modern glossy grey!
Your kitchen dresser is just how it should be Sago.

Our kitchen, just over a year old is white, flat surfaced cupboard fronts with cobalt blue tiles and grey karndean flooring. I love it, clean lines, clear surfaces like the rest of our house which is fairly minimalist, I hate clutter and dusting.

The main rooms in my home are very traditional, with fringed lampshades, wallpaper, patterned carpets and long heavy curtains, bookshelves etc. Chintz I guess you’d call it. but my kitchen is pristine white with blue tiles from Saville which I absolutely love.

So mix and match there?

That looks very nice and homely Sago. I bet your home is cosy and welcoming.

I updated my kitchen because the kitchen I had had for 25 years was beginning to fall apart, problems with door hinges and water getting under the surface of the coating of the doors, causing the surface to bubble. We were also extending the kitchen, the eating end had always been too small and we could not previously afford to do it - and that meant reconfiguring the kitchen. There have also been lots of developments in kitchen features, drawers with metal interiors that can bear the weight of all my saucepans, or all the kitchen crockery, pull out cupoards, full length units and so on.

Confession time….. here’s my kitchen dresser that somehow I never get around to sorting?