Kitchen Design Blog & Guides

A tall larder uses vertical space well, but “more storage” is not the same as easier storage. A deep cabinet full of fixed shelves can hide food at the back. A full-height pull-out can make every shelf visible but costs more and needs its own clearance. Internal drawers bring items forward while keeping an ordinary […]

An integrated dishwasher is designed to disappear behind a kitchen door, but that door does not make every machine compatible with every cabinet range. The appliance needs a correctly sized opening, a matching furniture panel, a compatible door-fixing system and a route for water, waste and power. The worktop and plinth also affect the fit.If […]

A sink base can have the same outside width as an ordinary kitchen cabinet while offering far less usable storage. The sink bowl hangs into it; the trap and waste pipe sit behind the doors; the tap may need space against a wall; and a dishwasher often sits immediately beside it. Choosing the cabinet from […]

An L-shaped kitchen gains worktop by turning a corner, but the cabinet below it can either be useful storage or a deep place where things disappear. The choice is often framed as “which corner accessory should I buy?” The more important decision comes earlier: how much space each cabinet takes along both walls, where the […]

A kitchen plan can look complete while the order is missing the parts that make it fit. A drawing may show a neat run of doors but say little about the cabinet widths, the space left against a wall, the dishwasher model or the panels that finish an exposed side. Those details determine whether the […]

This is the second question almost every Dublin homeowner asks us, straight after price, and it gets the vaguest answers across the trade. People need to book time off work, warn the neighbours about a skip, and decide whether the family is eating takeaway for one week or three. So here is the honest version, […]

You have three quotes on the table, all within a few hundred euro of each other. That is where most people relax and pay a deposit, and where the budget stops being accurate. Those numbers price the kitchen: cabinets, worktop, doors, labour. The rest arrives afterwards in pieces, once the deposit is gone. Below is […]

You have two quotes on the table. One is €12,400, the other €18,900, and both say “supply and fit” for what looks like the same kitchen. Nobody has told you what the extra €6,500 buys. It might be quartz instead of laminate. It might be four pan drawers, a larder and branded runners. It might […]

Count how many times a drawer gets opened in your kitchen on an ordinary Tuesday. The cutlery drawer alone will take forty or fifty pulls before the dinner things are washed up. Nothing else in the room works that hard, which is why drawers are where a cheap kitchen shows itself first, and most of […]

You’ve priced a kitchen, you’ve seen that the same 600mm base unit comes in two versions, and one of them is cheaper. That’s usually where the flat pack versus pre-assembled question starts, and it’s the wrong place to start. The price gap is smaller than most people expect, and what actually decides it is more […]

Put two flat pack kitchen quotes side by side and the differences you notice are all on the front: door colour, handle style, whether the drawers are soft-close. The €1,500 gap between them almost never sits there. It sits in the boxes behind the doors, in board thickness you can’t see once the kitchen is […]

Nobody notices a wall unit hung at the right height. They notice the one that isn’t. It’s the press you crack your head off leaning over the sink, or the top shelf you quietly gave up on and now use for the good delft twice a year. Base units forgive a lot, because you’re always […]