The questions people ask before they order a kitchen.
Written by us, from the questions that come up most often across the counter.
A kitchen is bought perhaps twice in a lifetime, which means almost everyone ordering one is doing it for the first time. The decisions that cost the most to undo — whether the cabinets reach the ceiling, which colour still looks right in ten years, whether ready-to-assemble means what you think it means — are usually made early, from a showroom conversation and a photograph.
These are the answers we give across the counter, written down so you can read them before you commit rather than after. They are not sales pages. Where the honest answer is “it depends”, they say what it depends on, and where a choice has a real drawback, they name it.
What are RTA cabinets?
Ready-to-assemble is how we hit three weeks instead of three months. What that means for the boxes, and what it does not mean.
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Should cabinets go to the ceiling?
The gap above the wall cabinets, why it exists, and the three ways to deal with it.
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Kitchen colours that do not date
Which cabinet colours have held their value through thirty years of kitchens, and which read as a decade.
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Choosing a colour for a bathroom
A bathroom is a small room with hard light. What that does to a colour that looked right on a sample door.
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Organising a deep cabinet
The corner cabinet, the one under the sink, and the pan drawer nobody can reach the back of.
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Lighting above the cabinets
What to put in the space over the wall run, and how to wire it before the cabinets go in rather than after.
Read →Still stuck on something? Ask us. Nobody minds a question before the order rather than after.
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