On 14 Apr 2006 13:07:21 -0700, wrote:

If you want it to last then don't have a fitted kitchen but buy real
furniture instead. Tables, chairs, cupboards, dressers etc etc, Can be
cheaper new secondhand or antique, easily re-arrangeable, portable if
you move, can last a lifetime.


Quote the last plumber we had in. "Everything in a kitchen seems to be
made of the wrong material.

Certainly commercial chipboard cabinets deteriorate like nobody's
business in the presence of moisture, condensation creating a breading
ground for insects like something out of "Indiana Jones and the Temple
of doom" etc.

See also: http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/messkitchen/design.html

By Joe Stahelin.

Who doesn't seem to have been around for 5 or so years.

Hope he's OK.

DG