Handleless styling is a growing trend in the UK kitchen scene, creating a simple, clean look that gloss delivers ever so well and Ultimate Kitchens Integrato Gloss Kitchen is a real head turner. Integrato’s hidden handles contribute to a clean, uncluttered look. Style doesn’t prevail over substance, however. The wide, contemporary drawers and floor-to-ceiling units provide extensive storage, and the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Contemporary Kitchens
What’s That Smell ?
Ultimate Kitchens brings you in todays blog post, an article about Extraction. GENERAL Cooker hoods help remove cooking smells, vapours and condensation. As a general rule the hood should be activated before cooking commences. You will mainly use the lower and mid speeds during normal cooking, resorting to maximum speed when dealing with emergencies – such as burning the toast! … Continue reading
We Love Kitchen Islands at Ultimate Kitchens
Both the team at Ultimate Kitchens and the buying customer love a good kitchen island. They are great for breaking up a large space, dividing a dining or living area from the kitchen or to provide extra work space. As such, a kitchen island comes very high on the wish list for customers looking for a new modern kitchen. Top … Continue reading
The Origins of the Shaker Style Kitchen
Shaker Style kitchens are synonymous with tradition and heritage and the term although widely used in today’s modern kitchen world, is often misunderstood. Whilst the term now largely refers to kitchens, especially in the UK and US, the term ‘Shaker’ does have former religious tones and the term was originally from the 18th century to denote a break-away Christian group, … Continue reading
New Avant Style Kitchen from Ultimate Kitchens – Avant Almond
Almond is the ninth colour to be added to the Avant range, sitting in the palette between Avant Alabaster and Ivory. The award winning Avant range is a clear winner for the modern kitchen customer and it is encouraging to see how the style has grown and grown since getting the award from interior design celebrity Laurence Llewelyn Bowen. Avant … Continue reading
Ultimate Kitchens – Lets talk about Ovens
Nowadays an oven no longer just gets hot and you put food in. Apparently there are now different types of “hot” which work better for different types of food. Take a look below to see the latest and greatest of what’s out there and how these modern Kitchen must haves will realise your dream of being the next Gordon or … Continue reading
Contemporary style Remo Shortlisted for Innovation Award
The Ultimate Kitchens contemporary style kitchen range Remo has been shortlisted as a finalist for KBB’s product innovation award. The product innovation award from the Kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms sector body KBB, going for over 25 years. recognises products that have been developed to actively move forward the field of product innovation within the kitchen sector. While innovation is important, … Continue reading
Eating In, Entertaining or Family Meals, consider a kitchen diner…
When planning a kitchen diner, the first thing to do is to take a step back and think carefully about what you want the kitchen to achieve. Is the kitchen dining area purely for impromptu eating, perhaps grabbing a quick sandwich or having a coffee and reading the paper? Or will it be the key meeting and focal point of … Continue reading
Lighting tips for your Kitchen
Natural & Task Lighting Fit Task, Ambient & Feature Lights ‘In the UK, we have an average of 23 lights per house of which we only use half. The lighting in a kitchen must be really carefully considered to be successful. There are three main types: task; ambient and feature lights – and getting the balance right is important. Good … Continue reading
Fenton Wenge featured Trade magazine KBB
One of our designs by conceptual designer, Graeme Smith was featured in the Kitchen, Bedroom & Bathroom Trade magazine KBB as aprt of an ‘affordable kitchens’ feature. Fenton Wenge was the opening full page shot for KBB’s affordable kitchens feature, which looked into how you can create a dream kitchen without breaking the bank, and Fenton Wenge, which is a … Continue reading
