Kitchens would be boring if every line was straight, and every cabinet the same. Fortunately you needn’t make do with an uncreative kitchen design if you are planning to purchase from Solid Wood Kitchen Cabinets: our comprehensive range of specialist cabinetry allows you to create truly unique solid wood kitchens. Best of all, these specialist cabinets can be easily incorporated alongside our standard wood cabinets, and all match beautifully thanks to the superior solid European oak used throughout.
To finish a run of cabinets, why not consider our curved cabinets? They can be either left open to display your kitchen wares or finished with matching curved frontals. We also offer a curved cabinet suitable for wall-mounting.
Wine connoisseur? You’ll definitely want to contemplate the inclusion of a wine rack within your kitchen: we offer solid oak wine rack base cabinets in either a single 150mm wide configuration for 6 bottles, or in a double-width 300mm unit (capable of holding 12 bottles of your finest).
If you’re going for a classic country kitchen, you will no doubt have considered a Belfast sink. We can provide specialist cabinets that cater specifically for Belfast sinks from 450mm right up to 1200mm wide.
These units – along with a variety of oven housing cabinets, wall cabinets and open end cabinets – can be used to make an extremely versatile kitchen to match your available space and lifestyle needs.
Interested in finding out more about our specialist cabinets? We highly recommend a visit to our flagship Gloucestershire showroom : this space has been purpose-built and designed by ourselves, and includes a fabulous range of cabinets within nine full kitchen displays. We look forward to helping you build your ideal kitchen!
Autumn is a time to appreciate the beautiful colours of nature, as we transition from the growth of spring and summer into the hibernation of winter, and so it is the ideal time of year to create your new kitchen in preparation for the colder months. Our solid oak kitchens highlight the beauty of timber – and contain none of the composites and MDF cabinets that you will find in many high-street stores. This, coupled with solid oak doors and a variety of wooden worktops, can create a cosy natural kitchen that you can be truly proud of, at a fraction of the cost that other retailers can offer.
If this sounds like the kind of kitchen you are looking for, then now is the time to order: because we’re offering 10% off all cabinets and cabinet-related products until the 10th November. To take advantage of this fantastic saving, simply enter the code AUTUMN10 at the online checkout, or mention this to one of our helpful customer advisers when placing an order via email or telephone. Please note that worktops, worktop accessories and samples are not included in this promotion.
The sale runs until midnight on November 10th, so there is plenty of time to decide which cabinets and accessories you need to create a wonderful wooden kitchen.
If you would like to see our products first-hand before placing an order, why not come and visit our Gloucester showroom? We have nine different kitchen setups with examples of all our different cabinet types on display, along with plenty of complementary appliances and accessories to inspire you.
October is here: and with it comes the chill of the autumn air. When the cold mornings and dark evenings start to draw in, there’s nothing better than preparing some homely comfort foods in solid wood kitchens to warm up your insides.
The Stirio auto pot stirrer from Norwegian kitchen experts Unikia is perfect for all ‘one-pot wonders’. With this kitchen gadget, never again will your porridge, stews or risottos stick to the bottom of the pan. It comes with a handy charging station, and has the option of two stirring speeds.
With a rechargeable battery (good for around 45 minutes of stirring), an adjustable head to fit any sized pot from 16 up to 28cm, the Stirio stirrer is easy to use and clean – it can be totally dismantled so can even go in a dishwasher.
There have been similar products available previously, but none that we have seen are quite as simplistic and versatile as the Stirio. It also won a prestigious Reddot Design Award in 2014, meaning it has been given an approving nod from a board of independent designers.
The Unikia Stirio retails for £39.99 direct from Unikia, but if you shop around, it can be found for £28.99 from IWantOneOfThose.com and a variety of other websites.
Have you tried the Stirio? If not is there any other kitchen gadget you simply cannot live without? We would love to hear your comments on either our Facebook page, Google+ page or on Twitter.
Autumn is upon us, and the early signs suggest that warm seasonal shades are going to be extremely popular over the coming months. Fiery reds, deep oranges and rich purples are amongst the top designer picks for Autumn-Winter 2014/15.
With this in mind, we thought we would highlight a favourite colour from Farrow & Ball that is available as a ‘bespoke’ option for our solid oak frontals. Brinjal, a deep aubergine shade, is a most delightful colour and perfect for this time of year.
If utilising this shade within oak kitchens, we’d recommend choosing Brinjal for a feature island, or perhaps mismatching wall cabinets in Brinjal with base cabinets finished with frontals painted in Elephants Breath (from our Accents range) or Charleston Gray (Strong Accents). Brinjal is a strong purple with rouge undertones and appears warmer or colder depending on the light; first seeming a pale reddish shade, this colour will darken with further coats and as the paint cures. The rosy tones pair beautifully with warm greys or lighter purples (like those colours suggested above). Alternatively, choose a coffee and cream colour scheme with aubergine at its centre.
Whatever you choose, Brinjal is sure to brighten your kitchen on brisk autumnal nights: and there are plenty of complementary shades to consider within our ‘standard’ collection of door frontal colours. If you’d like to discuss your colour scheme or would like advice about any of our cabinet options, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Our oak wall cabinets look great with or without a frontal, but if you are happy to have your finest dinnerware on display for everyone to see, then why not show them off with the help of our stylish plate racks?
These items are the latest addition to our collection of accessories for solid oak kitchens, and are the perfect way to display your best crockery in a hygienic and convenient manner. We offer them in a range of finishes – naturally sanded, lacquered or painted in a Farrow & Ball colour of your choice – allowing you to create a storage solution that is an attractive feature in its own right.
The racks are provided in pre-built sections measuring 1200 x 342mm, and as such can easily house 24 full-size dinner plates. For narrower cupboards, the racks can be cut down to size to accommodate almost any cabinet width, though we do recommend fitting the racks at the front and rear of the cabinet to securely hold your plates in place (so do be sure to order enough to fit twice the cabinet’s width). Should you prefer your rack to be fitted inside a closed cabinet, this also possible, but do take care to leave a gap between the sides of the cabinet and the first/last vertical spoke (in order to accommodate the door hinge).
Our solid oak plate racks start at just £50 for a sanded finish, so why not consider them for your kitchen? For all the options available, head to our solid wood oak plate racks page.
Grey is most definitely the ‘in’ colour this year. We looked at this in further detail in our ‘Kitchen Colour Ideas for 2014’ guide last month. It should come as little surprise, then, that when we decided to pick this month’s favoured colour for solid wood kitchens, we chose one of Farrow & Ball’s (not quite fifty) shades of grey: Pigeon.
Joking aside, there’s around twenty widely varying shades of grey in Farrow & Ball’s collection, and Pigeon sits somewhere between the blue undertones of Plummett and the lilac hues of Elephant’s Breath©. It has hints of green in warmer light, but looks like a true grey in the cool tones of natural winter rays or when under modern LED lighting.
We’ve placed Farrow & Ball’s Pigeon into our ‘Accents’ collection alongside Parma Gray and Hardwick White, which means it’s an ideal colour to pair with a lighter shade of white from our variety of ‘Pastels’. It also combines well with darker wooden kitchen worktops such as the exotic tones of our walnut, iroko or wenge, and is the perfect finish for our Shaker-style cabinet doors and drawer fronts.
If you’d like to witness the stunning grey-green tones of Pigeon in the ‘flesh’, we offer pre-painted kitchen samples in the form of miniature painted cabinet doors. They’re available for only £20 including delivery and are perfect for helping you decide on the ideal colour scheme for your space, whilst sampling the quality of our oak doors.
Alternatively, take a trip to our Gloucester showroom where you’ll find samples of all the colours in our range, along with nine themed kitchens that show off the inimitable quality of Farrow & Ball’s natural paints.
With the arrival of this year’s BBC Great British Bake Off, bakery has once again taken the country by storm in a tidal wave of pastry politics, brawling bakers and doughy disputes. Whilst some of the contestants may make it appear like baking the perfect loaf of bread is relatively straight forward, in the real world it can take considerable time and effort to become a bestselling baker.
Our ‘Gadget of the Month’ for September is a piece of technology that helps those of us who are short on time (and in some cases patience!) produce the most beautiful loaves of fresh bread.
Panasonic were the first company to bring a consumer bread maker to the market, and they’re generally rated as the best around by those in the know. Their top-end model, the SD-ZB2502BXC is a fully-featured breadmaker that has 11 settings, including special modes for gluten-free and dough-only modes for making pizza bases and other treats.
It can also make three different sizes of loaf and is complete with a 13-hour delay timer, enabling you to mix ingredients the night before and wake up to the gorgeous smells of freshly-cooked bread. There’s also a raisin and nut dispenser and a yeast dispenser to allow you to automatically add ingredients so that the machine can be left to bake without the need for interruption.
The snappily-named SD-ZB2502BXC is available from a variety of high-street retailers for around £139.99, complete with measuring cups, breadpan, rye mode kneader and recipe book.
If you’re the proud new owner of a bread maker or any other gadget that is making life in oak kitchens that bit easier, we’d love to hear more about it. Just get in touch on Facebook, Twitter or Google +.
At Solid Wood Kitchen Cabinets, we offer a comprehensive range of oak cabinetry to ensure that creating your dream kitchen is an enjoyable and easy process.
No matter what kind of layout suits your kitchen design, you will no doubt be considering a range of appliances. Nothing quite beats the look of built-in appliances – particularly ovens and refrigeration.
An abundance of appliances on display can detract from the overall appeal of modern solid wood kitchens, but luckily we have a wide range of real wood kitchen cabinets that will allow these necessary appliances to blend seamlessly with your design.
If room is tight, do consider our solid oak oven housing cabinets, which are designed to fit in alongside our standard oak base cabinets, measuring H720 x W600 x D570mm. They will fit any built-in single oven measuring 600mm in width, and feature space for a single drawer underneath – perfect for oven trays – which can be paired with any of our kitchen unit doors.
More space available in your kitchen? If so, please take a look at our tall kitchen cabinets for built-in appliances. Like all our cabinets, they’re constructed from solid oak panels, and can be provided with space for either a single or double oven. These are available in two heights and – depending on your kitchen requirements – can feature a door or drawers underneath, along with a shelf above the cooker that is perfect for one of our Blum™ bi-fold door mechanisms.
Should you have any queries regarding our appliance cabinets, or if you’d like to discuss which product might be most suitable for your appliance of choice, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our phone lines are open from 9am-5.30pm on weekdays and 10am-2pm on Saturdays.
Choosing a perfect shade of white is perhaps one of the trickiest decisions when planning interior decoration: for though the differences may be subtle, beyond the clinical realms of pure white there is a real variety of off-white hues.
Farrow & Ball have at least 15 shades of white in their collection, but a firm favourite is the creamy white known as ‘White Tie’. Like so many of Farrow & Ball’s natural paints, White Tie can vary anywhere from a cotton-white in overcast summer skies, to a more yellowy-white on a warm summer’s evening. In neutral lighting, it sits somewhere in between the darker New White and the bright All White.
Occupying the lighter end of our ‘Pastels’ collection, it is a perfect colour for Shaker-inspired kitchens, particularly on oak kitchen doors and drawer fronts when used in a classic or country kitchen theme. Consider using it alongside darker wall colours to balance out oppressive tones, such as with dark browns for a luxurious high contrast look.
If you’d like to see an example of White Tie up-close, we have two simple options for you. First, you can purchase one of our miniature painted cabinet door kitchen samples, which are available in any of our hand-finished Farrow & Ball shades for only £20 including delivery. Alternatively, pay a visit to our Gloucester showroom where you can see nine stylish solid oak kitchens (one of which utilises White Tie as its feature colour), and discuss your kitchen project with our friendly team.
Well, it’s been an interesting summer so far. We’ve seen sunshine, hail and lightening, often packed into the space of a few hours. But there’s little that can dampen our spirits here at Solid Wood Kitchen cabinets – we’re always on top form to deliver solid wood kitchens at unbeatable prices.
So, whilst the weather in some parts of the country might not be quite what we had hoped for this summer, we are here to lift your spirits with even further reductions on all our solid oak kitchen cabinets and associated products.
Use the discount code KITCHENS10 at our online checkout, or when speaking to one of our telephone advisors, and we’ll knock 10% off all cabinets and accessories on your order. Worktops, worktop accessories and samples are not included, but you can rest assured that our prices are still the best around for products of such excellent quality.
The sale runs throughout August and finished on August 31st, so now’s the perfect time to order yourself some key components for a kitchen revamp, or entirely new solid oak kitchen.
If you would rather see our products up-close before placing an order, then come along to our Gloucester showroom, where we’ve got nine different kitchen setups on display, with a wide variety of solid wood kitchen cabinet solutions installed. Our showroom and telephone lines are open 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday, and 10am – 2pm on Saturdays.
