A La Carte Kitchens

Advantages: The professional yellow hose is very robust
Disadvantages: If the snails get to the instructions before you do - the cart will never get built!

...Well, we moved back to Wales, and got a garden, so my kind loving husband (fiancée at the time) said we go for the "best" the Hoselock Through flow hose and cart, with the yellow professional hose (rather than the green hose). So a trip to Argos and the best of £50 later, one hose and cart (in pieces). - Purely for watering vegetables and a few flowers I was growing for our wedding. I was keen to use it, so we unreeled the long hose and it just reached to where we needed it. It got moved around the large garden we rented and put up with being pulled and dumped in a heap and plenty of rough treatment - whilst the cart rested in the box, and rested and rested. Then it was winter - and oh dear the instructions had been eaten by the snails and slugs... We moved to our smallholding, and our hose was about 15 months old. We didn... Read review

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Advantages: Fast ordering, delivery and installation, quality products that look great and cost less
Disadvantages: Not everything may be in stock when you go to buy it

...My home renovation is finished, and the last thing that was done was the kitchen. Of course, that's really one of the hardest parts of a major renovation, and I'm glad that I had IKEA to help me with this. So I thought you might want to share my experiences with IKEA Kitchen Systems. First of all, you'll find IKEA Kitchen Systems either at your IKEA store or in their catalogue or via the IKEA web page (www.ikea.co.uk and choose the closest branch to your home). What I first did was to go through their catalogue and pick out a style that I liked (Kalsebo in beech), checked to see what units were available in that style and then mapped out my kitchen area. Since I was working with an area that previously wasn't a kitchen, I had to be careful with my contractor to make sure that all the installations were in the correct place... Read review

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Advantages: Great price, solid, easy to install cabinets, real wood doors
Disadvantages: Only that I had to carry it in my car to save the transport...

...I heard so many stories about ordering kitchen from big stores (the likes of B&Q, MFI or Homebase) and then getting it without some pieces, in 4-6 weeks and then waiting some other weeks to get the missing pieces delivered, so I decided that the best for us, in our new house, is to try and get a supplier that offers "off-the-shelf" kitchens ! So I can go and pick my stuff by myself. This because with all the transformation in our house ( we purchased a house and the kitchen was to be completely relocated from its original location, to the former bathroom area on the ground floor, which was before just by the former kitchen (I don't understand the English houses with the kitchen and bathroom side by side on the ground floor ! How on Earth you want to go through the kitchen to go to the bathroom? Or have a bath while someone is cooking... Read review

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