Chalon UK Ltd, a market leader in handmade kitchens, bathrooms and classically styled furniture, has launched their latest bespoke kitchen range, the Chalon ‘Designer’ Collection at their London and Harrogate Showrooms.

The company’s distinctive kitchens are a blend of inspired design, solid timber and quality construction, rounded off with a unique finishing style.

The new Chalon Designer Collection provides the classical look and feel of its Original furniture, whilst the fitted style means it is well suited to any space and budget

Remaining handmade throughout, it has a flexible style that allows the company’s designers to choose elements from their Original range – such as the unique finishes or signature Worktables (islands) – and combine them with this new cabinetry to suit customers requirements.

Some special offers on the new range are available to all showroom visitors during May and June 2008, with a £1,000 discount offered on this new collection of furniture.

To see the quality and beauty of Chalon furniture and enjoy a first class design service, call at the showroom - The Plaza, 535 King’s Road, London SW10, or Harrogate outside the Victoria Shopping Centre in Station Parade; or online:

Web: http://www.chalon.com.

Tel: (01458) 254610

The new coastal inspired Steamer Bay bespoke kitchen range from John Lewis of Hungerford, will bring a sense of blue-sky and sea breeze into your kitchen; ideal in a country home or seaside cottage setting.

Conjuring thoughts of fresh air and lazy-hazy summer days, distressed finish and cute candy striped wooden doors and oak work tops, combine with the relaxed summer and autumn colour palettes, to create a welcoming, homely and warm feel:

• The Steamer Bay range is available fully fitted or freestanding and the units are set upon a chassis frame that can be moved from room to room, and even house to house.
  The pine ledged doors of the cabinets are available with solid painted tongue grove and bead, framed pierced tin, blackboard or glazed door combinations.
  The design incorporates the popular butler style sink over-laid with an oiled rustic oak, solid work surface.
• Other features include traditional brass butt hinges or rustic over painted hinges, optional plinth for a more fitted feel, and a variety of handles including the tarnished brass drawer cup-handles.

Steamer Bay freestanding kitchen furniture options include, rustic oak surfaced distressed tables, chairs and benches, dressers and larders that can also be colour matched to fit the palette of every room.

All the cabinetry and furniture pieces are hand-made just for you by skilled craftsmen, allowing individual preferences to be incorporated at the design stage.

The Steamer Bay kitchen is priced from £8,000.

Web: http://www.john-lewis.co.uk

Tel:   (0700) 278 4726.

If you’re looking for a more flexible and creative approach to kitchen furniture, or you have limited space; the John Lewis Freestanding kitchen range is ideal.

The Freestanding Concept brings together a collection of separate, freestanding and functional units that link to form a uniform working kitchen.

Since it isn’t a fitted kitchen, a planning or installation service is not offered; instead you have the chance to plan, design and decide on the kitchen you want, at an affordable price.

It’s easy to plan your kitchen and try out different layouts and choose from a range of individual base and wall units, in a choice of door colours; there are also other useful units, such as pull-out bins and a wine rack:

• All the units are easy to fit - and take apart - so its easy to extend or refresh your kitchen, or even move them to a new house.
• Each freestanding kitchen unit comprises an MDF core with a beech finish wrap; and an integrated grey 40mm, high-pressure laminated worktop.
• The doors and drawers have lacquered gloss painted fronts and brushed nickel-finish bar handles.

The contemporary-style kitchen featured has beech-effect cabinets and a choice of 4 gloss door colours in white, cappuccino, burgundy or black, so you can even mix and match colours.

Retail price examples - 1100mm Hob Base Freestanding Kitchen Units, Burgundy £625 - £675.

3-Drawer Base Freestanding Kitchen Units, Burgundy £450 - £700.

Hi-Line Double Base Freestanding Kitchen Unit, Burgundy £500.

Web: http://www.johnlewis.com

Tel: (08456) 049 049

Nolte Kuechen has become more and more successful the world over from year-to-year; as innovation leaders, they are repeatedly a source of new inspiration for the market.

In recognition of the current trend towards open plan living, Nolte Kitchens have introduced the Manhattan range of kitchen furniture, designed to help create an open plan flexible kitchen/living space.

The collection offers a selection of units in addition to their standard kitchen cabinets, which allow the creation of contemporary, practical living areas including, a freestanding single drawer unit that can be used for either seating or storage.

The Manhattan range is as varied as the cosmopolitan city of the same name, with a matt finish in a choice of: Metallic Kubanit, Italian Walnut, African Wenge or off white.

The Manhattan kitchen/living space featured here has been created with a combination of Metallic Kubanit and off white units.

The worktop is Nolte’s Canadian Apple finish and the large wall panel and shelves have been fashioned in the same material to create continuity in the design.

A standard Manhattan 600mm base unit is priced around £220.

Nolte manufacture their products using only environmentally sound processes and the latest technologies.

Web: http://www.nolte-kuechen.com

Tel: (01279) 868500

Ella’s Kitchen Company was established in 2004, when Katherina Saunders, inspired by her Norwegian heritage began making products that aim to turn your kitchen into a space saving and stylish place to live and cook.

The first product to be created was the 12-scoop Kitchen Storage Cabinet; a replica of the original cabinet left to her by her grandmother, which she had seen and used in childhood at her home in Oslo.

It is a charming piece of kitchen furniture - a spice and dry food storage cabinet, that is space saving, simple, convenient and fun to use, as well as child friendly and mouse proof!

The extraordinary, wooden, painted, storage cabinet featured here, has 12 aluminium scoops that take a whole packet of dry food, and a row of 9 vacuum-sealed glass spice jars, available with or without spice names.

Katherina has stayed faithful to the original manufacturing process, so the cabinet is robustly built with FSC woods by local Shropshire craftsmen, to ensure that Ella’s Kitchen Cabinet becomes a family heirloom.

The 12 and the smaller 6 scoop kitchen cabinets, are available exclusively from Ella’s Kitchen Company in a fabulous choice of colours including, Norwegian blue, antique white, stone and charcoal.

Size: Width 77cm; Height 50cm; Depth 25cm. Priced at £399.00.
 
Katherina has now created an entire range of kitchen accessories that are ‘Simple, Stylish and Practical’, all inspired by her Norwegian background, with its emphasis on simplicity and function.

Web:  http://www.ellaskitchencompany.com
Tel:   (01588) 673976

A beautiful bathroom and a smart kitchen not only make your home more enjoyable to live in, but can also add value to your property.

Surface Doctor, the leading bathroom and kitchen resurfacing company, has recognised that more people are now opting to restore kitchen and bathroom surfaces in order to save a massive 70% against the cost of a complete replacement.
 
Surface Doctor’s Miracle Method, is a cost-effective, fast and professional solution, combining state-of-the-art surface restoration technology and a unique surface-bonding agent, to transform old bathrooms and kitchens to look and feel like new.
 
The company can treat most surfaces, including ceramics, porcelain, and acrylic, plastic and laminates; they can restore anything from baths, basins and shower trays to tiles, kitchen cabinets and worktops.
 
Surface Doctor mixes all their own materials enabling them to match any décor or colour scheme; the makeovers are completed quickly, so that in less than 24 hours your home can have a beautiful new look, with enduring results.
 
The company has carried out hundreds of successful makeovers and their customers are convinced that in terms of both time and cost, it really does make sense to renew rather than replace.

Prices start from around £250.00.

Web: http://www.surfacedoctor.co.uk
Tel :   (0800) 9800 900.

Chalon UK Ltd, the well-known designers and manufacturers of hand crafted kitchens and freestanding furniture, have announced the launch of their new Ancestral kitchen range.

Constantly striving to create that ‘wow factor’ for clients, the latest kitchen range from Chalon is exclusively handcrafted from premium priced and premium quality Oak.

The Research & Development team have metaphorically turned around by 180 degrees and looked further back into the past. 

Taking inspiration for the range from National Trust / English Heritage properties and English kitchens of the past, the desire was to create a unique more traditional kitchen range than ever seen before.

“At Chalon, we strongly believe that the traditional style and appeal of our furniture will never go out of fashion,” commented Stephen Carter, Managing Director.

 “There has been so much contemporary and minimalist influence in recent years and at some point I believe there will be a widespread return to more traditional designs”

Chalon furniture has always been a blend of inspired design, solid timber, quality construction and a unique finishing style.  The new Ancestral kitchen range is another example of this and a beautifully designed addition to the company’s portfolio.

Web:  http://www.chalon.com
Tel:   (01458) 254610

John Lewis of Hungerford is one of the UK’s leading kitchen retailers, providing affordable fitted kitchens with a distinctive shaker-style.

The very popular Artisan kitchen first available in 1992 featuring colourful paint finishes, has been updated to celebrate the company’s 35th anniversary, so that for the first time, the Artisan kitchen will be available in natural solid wood.

Artisan Natural is available in the premium quality oak featured here, or a rich dark walnut, providing customers with a wider choice of materials and enabling a mix of natural and painted cabinetry, to create their unique design with the same well-loved features of the original Artisan kitchen.

Jon Rosby, Managing Director explains, “This year’s trend is for a more subtle application of colour, which is easier to live with and can be achieved mixing paint, wood and other materials such as granite and stainless steel”

The Artisan Kitchen has also been given additional performance upgrades, including full extension soft close drawers and internal drawer storage systems.

A wide selection of new kitchen worktops in 12 different solid wood options and an extensive range of 20 solid granite work surfaces can be used in conjunction with the new wood to create a bespoke design.

The European oak and American walnut used for the company’s kitchens is sourced from managed forests with high renewable and sustainable standards; for every tree forested at least one tree is planted!
 
Artisan Natural is priced from £10,000 cabinetry only.

Web: http://www.john-lewis.co.uk
Tel:   (0700) 278 4726

John Lewis of Hungerford has introduced an extensive selection of new solid granite and solid wood work surfaces to their bespoke kitchen range.

The new worktops are available as part of the renowned Artisan Kitchen, or for purchase separately, to enable customers to tailor the work surface to their own specific design.

20 different types of 35mm thick granites are offered, each chosen for their extraordinary patterns and colours.

Options include: Emerald Pearl, Orissa; Blue, Kashmir, white and luxurious; Labradorite Blue, a green based granite with large attractive crystals.

Solid Granite worktops are highly durable and provide a kitchen with a contemporary and stylish look. They also provide a subtle way to introduce highlights of colour into the kitchen,with eye catching patterns such as strong red, warm orange and burgundy tones, like Golden Oak and Golden Beech.
Each of the 12 solid wood worktops is 40mm thick and options range from pale Rustic Beech to the dark and distinct Walnut; these timbers have been selected for their quality, depth of grain and resistance to stress from daily use in the kitchen.

Ecologically friendly and highly sustainable Bamboo and Rubber Wood worktops are also available.

Wood worktops are priced from £93 per linear metre.
Solid granite worktops are priced from £303.70 per square metre.

An incredible breadth of stylish design schemes can be achieved, when these worktops are combined with a John Lewis of Hungerford Artisan Kitchen painted in any Fired Earth or Artisan colour.

Visit the website for further information and stockist details:

Web: http://www.john-lewis.co.uk
Tel: (0700) 278 4726

bulthaup, founded in 1949, is now renowned for its innovative leadership in modern kitchen design, in which unnecessary decoration of any kind is avoided; coupled with its smart installation concept, the company has become a pioneer in the industry.

bulthaup believes that kitchens are living spaces where the most beautiful have a simple, tailored design,  perfectly equipped and inviting places, which offer endless hours of enjoyment.

Their innovative bulthaup b3 system offers a new design concept that allows the kitchen elements to float, using materials carefully - as thin as possible and as thick as necessary; the overall lightness of design demonstrates how effortlessly beauty can radiate from functionality.

The entire kitchen “floats” using a multi-functional supporting frame on the wall that can bear up to one ton in weight per meter.

It is a masterpiece of stability hidden from view when fitted with panels, shelves, units and appliances; this technology also enables water, power and gas connections to be concealed; this wall solution is ideal for architects and designers, providing them with an unprecedented level of freedom in the efficient use of space.

bulthaup observed that in the majority of kitchens people need to either bend down low or stretch up high to reach certain areas, resulting in the b3 system, where all areas that are very high up or very low down, no longer exist and the space in-between is used to the full.

The bulthaup b3 concept clearly illustrates how you can create a highly personalised superb kitchen in any given space.

Visit the website for more information:

Web: http://www.bulthaup.com