single colour kitchen work tops

[king.module]

not sure which forum to put this so general it is

single colour kitchen work tops- do they exist??

i don't want any of this 'trying to be marble or granite or shale or Pandapoo Etc' all i want is a plain single coloured work surface and i canna find one
i would have thought there would have been loads around - they've gotta be easier to make than 'blood orange chiffon marble in purple with beech block ribbed underside'?!?!?!?!?

anyone know of a supplier out there??

 

[AdamW]

I bought some plain white worktops from Wickes a year back, I think they did other colours too.

They only did the chipboard-centre, bull-nose profile though. No square profiles.

 

[fitter]

Yes you can get plain colours, there is not a massive choice but they are there.

Your best bet is to find a local specialist supplier in yellow pages, if you can't find anything phone Andersons in Colchester who are the main importers, they can tell you who is local to you.

If you are near to Essex I can give you a phone number, great helpful stockist.

 

[king.module]

cheers you two

just seems really strange that it's so hard to find just a simple coloured work top - reckon the manufactures are missing out on a trick there?


> fitter thanks but i'm up north in sunny yorkchestershire (where the rain just keeps on coming!!!)

tatar....

 

[fitter]

Proberly supply & demand, I've got hundreds of fob sized samples and only ever get asked to supply about a dozen styles, most people it seems have similar tastes.

On the strength of your question I went through them and apart from white could only find 3 shades of grey, some come pretty close to being plain but still have a slight pattern.

Good luck with your search.

 

[king.module]

cheers for looking fitter.

i reckon most people go out looking and can only find patterned styles so they end up get one of those... reckon we'll prob. end up getting one i as there's no way we'll be able to afford a bespoke/custom 'plain' style.

patterned work tops have been round for years and years - i reckon it's time for a worktop revolution - lol

 

[AdamW]

Well, the bullnose profile patterned worksurface has lost some ground to the thick woodblock worksurface

 

[fitter]

I love real wood worktops they look great, I also enjoy putting them in they require more skill than laminate, which makes me have to kick start what's left of my brain.

I believe they will get more popular but then the bubble will burst as people begin to realise, that you have to look after them and they require a certain amount of maintenance. Time will tell.

 

[AdamW]

Funny isn't it. The maintenance of a good solid wood worksurface takes perhaps an hour per year, plus drying time for the oil.

Yet people will spend loads of money on the surfaces and never bother!

 

[fitter]

With some of the people I do work for that " one hour a year" would take more planning than WW2.

 

[king.module]

yeah solid wood is really, really nice but if we had a solid wood work surface in our gaff it would be wood overload


still the next property we get....... well that is if house market doesn't burst before it's time to move on.

i saw on some 'hey! we know your not moving house but lets paint the whole thing beige.... because it'll increase the value of your house (WTF???)' type program, someone had a whole (for want of a better word) plank as a work surface, complete with the natural curve from the tree it was cut from. very organic and looked fantastic - now if i wait 200+ years for the oaks we planted a few years back............lol

 

[fitter]

200 + years waiting for the oak, proberly still quicker than waiting for MFI to get the delivery right.

 

[king.module]

200 + years waiting for the oak, proberly still quicker than waiting for MFI to get the delivery right.

LOL - yeah MFI certainly do have a screw missing somewhere down the line

 

[AdamW]

Hey, I planted some horse chesnuts about 18 years ago in my grandad's greenhouse. They were moved out of there onto a "let's plant trees" kind of site when they were saplings... they must be all of 6 inches in diameter now, could probably cut it into planks and make a worktop

 

[king.module]

Hey, I planted some horse chesnuts about 18 years ago in my grandad's greenhouse. They were moved out of there onto a "let's plant trees" kind of site when they were saplings... they must be all of 6 inches in diameter now, could probably cut it into planks and make a worktop

cheers for the offer AdamW but i reckon you might have forfeited your right to harvest the said timber due to the location of the planting... now if you'd left them in the greenhouse........