Having worked in Poliform’s Surry Hills studio as a kitchen designer about 4 years ago, I truly miss gazing over the beautiful display kitchens from my desk. It was so much fun to go to work and be a part of the elegant structures (as well as the people for that matter) contained within the…
Continue Reading →Get the look of granite benchtops cheaply and easily by using a specially formulated granite paint by Giani. There are other laminate paints on the market but they generally offer only a solid colour. Giani differs from the rest by offering a 3 step paint process using a primer coat, a sponge on mineral paint…
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The kitchen work triangle is used by kitchen designers and residential architects to find out the most efficient kitchen layout for any given space. History The work triangle was an idea developed in the 1940′s by university researchers studying time and motion. They were trying to decide the best way to maximise efficiency between the…
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Got a small kitchen and can’t find a place to fit a normal size dishwasher? Omega have designed a portable benchtop dishwasher that can fit into the smallest of kitchen areas. Compact The DW101WA is only 435mm high x 550mm wide x 505mm deep and claims to be big enough to give a perfect wash…
Continue Reading →When starting any kitchen renovation, one of the first things that needs to be checked is to see whether the walls in the room containing the new kitchen are actually square (at right angles to each other). Walls at the right angle? More often than not, there will never be two walls that are at…
Continue Reading →A mason’s mitre is a derivative of the mitre joint and is commonly used to join laminated benchtops together. similar to a butt joint, the mason’s mitre is used in benchtop fabrication to cut waste. Joining benchtops with a mason’s mitre The two benchtops are joined by routing out a ‘socket’ in one piece and…
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