At Last... Pictures of Our Beautiful Glass Splashbacks

We’ve been waiting from some pictures from our glass splashback suppliers because we wanted to show them off to better effect.

We’ve had a mass of interest in them but haven’t really been able to demonstrate just how fabulous they look when they are actually up in the kitchen – but now we can!

We’ve got a couple if images – and as it happens, they are in the two best selling colours, bright refreshing Zest (that’s Zest in marketing speak, or lime green in English!) and deep exotic Fushia (dark pink!). I’ve slotted them into this blog for you to take a look at added them to the main splashback section of the website.

They come in a wide range of colours – orange (also a strong seller), lime, pink and red for a fresh, bright look and then a range of blues, greys, browns and blacks for the more subtle appearance. Whichever colour you choose, they make a stunning effect. The glass is sort of translucent and if you have downlighters under your kitchen cabinets, they really do look amazing.

And not only are the great to look at they are also really practical They fix to the wall with a self-adhesive backing and are very easy to wipe clean.

So there you have it – to add some truly beautiful practicality to your kitchen you need glass splashbacks.

A New Twist On Your Old Door Handles

Attention to detail is the key when it comes to making your kitchen the best it can be - and one of the details that sometimes gets less attention that it should with a fitted kitchen, is the door handles.
There are hundreds and hundreds of options available, and what you choose can literally change the personality of your kitchen.

Indeed if you want to give your kitchen a quick makeover or refresh, then the door handles (or door knobs, catches, pulls and so on) can be a great way to start.

The topic is as broad as the options available, so I’m going to come back to this subject so that I can deliver it in themes, but I’m going to start with a review of a currently trendy option in handles, ones with a twist! Traditional in design and available most commonly in Black, Antique Pewter and Antique Brass, Twister handles are pretty much as describe they have either a basket, cage or molded twist in them as a feature. One of my personal favourites is this drop drawer and door handle with an antique brass finish.

It oozes class and has a fine antique appearance - but it won’t break the bank at only a smidgen over £2 each. If you have a standard size kitchen, you’d probably be looking at less than £40 to give your doors a fabulous new personality.

DIY TIP: When you are measuring to establish the size of door handle you need, measure between the Hole Centres (often referred to as CC for some bizarre reason) - that is the distance between the points at which the handle will be attached to the drawer or door.

The next category of door handles with a twist are T-shaped handles. Some examples of those we have available are shown here.
With these, a touch of elegance can be added at even lower cost. the attractive barley style twist door handle shown at the bottom right of this picture is available at just £0.95 each - so a makeover cost per average kitchen of less than twenty quid!
These, again are generally available in a choice of black, pewter or antique brass.

And our final category of handles with a twist comes in the style of door knobs.

Available in diameters from 30mm to 38mm, these button style door knobs are a subtle touch of class for those who prefer a compact look.

The cage style twister door knobs shown here are both available in black, pewter and antique brass and come in at a little over £2 each, whereas the moulded style antique brass door knob , which also comes in antique pewter, retails at around £1.20 each.
So, a contemporary look using a traditional theme can be added to your kitchen at relatively low cost - just give it a new twist.

I Should Be Running My Own Doughnuts Off, But...

I’m sponsoring Dee Kirkham to run her doughnuts off instead!

The power of the tweet and
twitter.com was pressed home this morning when a message popped through from Dee about how www.justgiving.com had generated a great response for her sponsored run this coming week in support of the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign. Inspirational Dee is running 10 miles (she’s completed a marathon before, it will be a doddle, right? Not! It’s a tough distance)
Admiration for Dee plus a combination of timing and the content made me click through and add a little support myself. I have been meaning to participate in a charity run myself for about a year, but despite my training efforts (I really have got shin splints, honestly!), I’,m ashamed to say that I still haven’t managed to get to the start line. I was also so really impressed with the JustGiving website and how it offers such a powerful support mechanism to help those wanting to generate sponsorship or gift giving - it makes it so easy to give your support.

So inspirational person +tweet + great website + guilt = donation

A winning formula all round. And if it adds up for me - it should add up for you too, so why not click through directly to
Dee’s sponsorship page by clicking here and offer her a little doughnation of your own?
There, I feel much better, liberated… now pass me that sticky toffee pudding.

Hot In The Kitchen: Door Handles, Splashbacks, Upstands...

... and much more! Since we have thousands of kitchen items, everything from cabinet hinges to Range Cookers, I thought I'd provide a simple list of our top products for you to link through to:

Cabinet Hinges - also known as blum hinges

Drawer Runners - fix those droopy drawers quick and easy!

Door Handles & Knobs - hundreds of styles and types

Shelf Supports - handy and often difficult to find

Soft Closers - sssshhhhhh - makes the kitchen doors close quietly

Cabinet Carcasses - aka your kitchen cupboards!

Replacement Doors - great choice available - a low cost route to a kitchen makeover

Chrome Baskets - fantastically convenient way to improve kitchen storage

Wicker Drawers - another great way to improve storage

Glass Splashbacks - hot hot hot!! Practical and a great way to add a splash of colour to the kitchen.

These are just a few of the product we have - trade or consumer, we can provide you with pretty much everything you need for kitchen home improvements.More soon....

Free Advertising For Your Kitchen Fitters Business

I have a free directory listing service on my website, so if you are a quality kitchen fitter, plumber, tiler, plasterer, carpenter, joiner or electrician I would like to here from you!

Mykitchenstore offers thousands of kitchen fitting products - everything you might need from fixing a problem with a cabinet hinge to performing a complete kitchen makeover with replacement doors and cabinet carcasses. With thousands of visitors coming to my site, chances are some folks will be looking to find a kitchen fitter or trades person to carry out some work on their kitchen using the products they are buying.

I would like to have at least one of each of the above trades listed on my site for every county in the UK - so if you are interested in some free advertising with a listing on my website then I would like to hear from you.

You can list your main services, your contact details including telephone and email and a link to your website or bttradespace.

To take a look at the current listing (and check out our huge range of kitchen fittings, door handles, hinges, appliances, kitchen cabinets and much more), click on this link to our kitchen fitters page

And if you would like to take advantage of this free advertising opportunity for your business, then get in touch!

Splashing Out On a New Kitchen Splashback

We have thousand of kitchen items on our kitchen store website - but one of the most popular products recently has been kitchen splashbacks.

I don't know why this might be - but on further investigation it seems that it is also one of the most searched items. Maybe kitchens don't get fitted with a splashback in place - or equally I suppose a splashback might not be something that gets much thought until after the kitchen is installed and you notice that it is an integral part of 'the look'. This struck me yesterday when a customer purchased one of our glass splashbacks in fuschia - a powerful and rather splendid colour that probably has quite a big impact as it sits proudly there behind the hob.

So what are your options when it comes to splashbacks? Well the standard and best known are probably the stainless steel splashbacks in their shimmering silver splendour - and if you have a range cooker, you may well be willing to splash the cash on a sleek, slick and commanding rangemaster black splashback which is formed of hefty 15mm thick steel and splendidly coated in black enamel.

But for the fun and funky, there's the far more exciting glass variations. You can have glass tiles or a solid glass panel and each come in a fabulous range of colours; turquoise, pink, gold, blue - what a great way to add a 'splash' of colour!