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Step 1: Show a nice, large photo of the kitchen.
× MFI

Step 2: Organise your kitchens by kind and give these comprehensible names like 'Traditional' or 'Modern', not 'Uniquely Magnet'.
× Magnet
Step 3: Do not make absolutely everything on the page Flash dependent. This becomes very irritating very quickly.
× Magnet
Step 4: Do give some indication of the prices of your kitchens. No, you do not have to list every separate unit and its cost. But a price for a pictured kitchen would be a nice indicator.
× Moben

Grrrr. Does anyone happen to have any suggestions of good kitchen retailers with helpful websites? We don't absolutely have to do all of this online but, since I'm going to be in America for the next three weeks and then in Scotland from the end of August, it would really help.  Also, does anyone happen to have any ideas about how you find out the relative prices of different kitchens?  It seems to be a closely-guarded secret in which all kitchen retailers are colluding.

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Date: 2008-07-17 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladywhizbee.livejournal.com
Go to Ikea's website (www.Ikea.com). They have excellent kitchen cabinets, countertops, etc. and all the planning tools. You can download a kitchen planner and everything.

My husband and I completely remodeled the kitchen in the condo that we had when we were first married--it was perfect. The cabinets are really well-designed, and while some designs are very modern there are others that are more traditional as well, depending on what you want. Go look--you'll have a ton of fun checking out all the options. *grins*

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Date: 2008-07-17 07:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] girlyswot.livejournal.com
Thanks for the suggestion. IKEA is a possibility, I suppose, though they don't deliver and there isn't one very near here.

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Date: 2008-07-17 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladywhizbee.livejournal.com
Hmmm...but ordering cabinets is different than buying a piece of furniture from Ikea. They don't stock them in the store so they have to be ordered and delivered--at least ours were. They brought them to us on a truck and carried them into our house using those fun carts they have in the store. It might be worth checking into before writing them off completely...

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Date: 2008-07-17 07:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] girlyswot.livejournal.com
Ah - I didn't know that. I'll see if it's the same in the UK.

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Date: 2008-07-17 08:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amamama.livejournal.com
I'll second the suggestion to go to IKEA - and I'd think they deliver. Only a few kitchens are stored in the warehouse, the rest are brought out. Here they have what they call three levels of service. 1: Do it yourself (everything - from picking it out at the warehouse to putting it up), 2: get it all delivered, but put it up yourself, and 3: get it all delivered and put up. They really should have the same choices in the UK. And they're good quality - I don't think anyone tests their kitchens quite as strenously as IKEA does. So unless you really, really want a hardwood kitchen and can't stomach the thought of MDF, then I'd go Swedish (and being Norwegian, that says quite a lot, LOL).

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Date: 2008-07-17 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tdu000.livejournal.com
Uniquely Magnet! LOL!

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Date: 2008-07-17 09:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] girlyswot.livejournal.com
Which is somehow different from 'Essentially Magnet' and 'Purely Magnet'. Whatever that means.

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Date: 2008-07-17 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com
We got Moben in. The service was great (well, apart from the day the fitter went awol and a relentlessly chirpy woman with a Brummie accent kept ringing to ask me if I'd seen him) but they're expensive, and they won't tell you *how* expensive until they've already come round and designed it for you.

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Date: 2008-07-17 09:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] girlyswot.livejournal.com
That's helpful, thank you. Fitting is not a problem since the builders who are here building the house will do that. But not knowing how expensive it will be is more of an issue. Though at the moment, the only kitchen I've seen that I like is a Moben one...

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Date: 2008-07-17 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rdprice29.livejournal.com
ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY STAY AS FAR AWAY AS YOU CAN FROM HOME DEPOT'S KITCHEN INSTALLATION DEPT!!!!!!!

The accounting firm I used to work for audit's them, and I heard HORROR stories from one of the managers on the account at one training session I went to. I've talked to other who've used them, and they had the same bad experience. Problem number one, i think, is that they outsource the actual labor/installation, and not necessarily reputable/reliable ones.

I don't know if Lowe's does the same or if theirs is more reliable. I've only ever heard bad things about HD.

I know IKEA has cool kitchen stuff, and they say they do installation, but I have no idea how good their service is either. We ripped out stuff from the 70's and put in IKEA counters and such in the house we lived in before this one, and I really liked them and they seemed very durable, but my husband did the installation himself. So I don't know if they do a good job of installation or not, sorry.

I probably didn't help you much at all, sorry. But seriously, you will only regret going with HD, so please JUST SAY NO!!!

;D

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Date: 2008-07-17 11:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] girlyswot.livejournal.com
It's fine. Home Depot don't install kitchens in the UK anyway. Nor Lowe's. Installation isn't the problem, since the builders who are building the house will do that.

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Date: 2008-07-17 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rdprice29.livejournal.com
I was just reading the other comments, and remembered that you were in the UK, and that I have no idea if they do kitchens over there.

But seriously? I loved my IKEA kitchen counters and cabinets when I had them. I agree with the others who say you should check them out before definitely ruling them out.

Good luck!

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