Glorious Colour in 3D!!

In an attempt to create an even easier platform to view our splendid glass splashbacks and glass worktops we are currently in the process of adding a new feature to the colours page (click here to zoom straight to said page). Now when you click on one of the colour boxes a new window will open showcasing various jobs which we’ve fabricated and installed in that colour. Wonderful yes!! All of the colours haven’t had this feature added yet but we are updating daily so keep checking in!!

Some like it hot!!

So we are led to believe! I for one love the kick a well placed chilli or ten can do to a fajita. This job above wanted to reflect this on their walls – and why not!!

It’s another glass splashback job in cayenne which seems to be quite a popular colour at the mo. All of the colours seem to move in trends as you would imagine and currently folk are into the more vibrant colours, most probably something to do with spring (and summer just round the corner – yay!).

Hope you like the image above. If you need any more details please feel free to cast a glance at our lovely site www.kitchencalm.co.uk

Luxurious Lagoon!

What do you think of this luxurious lagoon worktop folks? Isn’t it lovely? Don’t you feel like you could just go ahead and dive in? Has it given you the sense that you truly are looking at a lagoon? Have I gone way too far in my enthusiasm for what is essentially a boring (albeit it beautiful) worktop? I think so!!! However you have to admit that it’s ‘bonny’ (in the words of the great Alan Titmarsh). It’s a recent job and another example of how fab we here at Kitchen Calm are.

All the colours for glass worktops and glass splashbacks can be found online at www.kitchencalm.co.uk and please remember to keep checking back for Bathing Bliss news (once again we do encourage excitement in many aspects of life but will continually remind ourselves that we are dealing with inanimate kitchen and bathroom furniture and try not to get too hyped! Honestly…)

The New Logo!!

Wow – What the…!! That’s amazing - I here you say!!! …..Or maybe not but either way the new logo for bathing bliss is here and above is the said logo as it will appear on the new site.

As we’ve said in previous posts we’re really paring down the products we supply on Bathing Bliss in much the same way we did with Kitchen Calm many moons ago. Those who remember the old Kitchen Calm may recall that as well as supplying the webs finest glass splashbacks and glass worktops we also supplied tiles, flooring, hobs, ovens even the kitchen sink!! However we realised that supplying all these extra products hampered our service and focus on glass so we dropped them all and zoned in solely on the glass (well that’s almost true as we do still offer the corian but for dramatic effect let’s forget that for this post).

In much the same manner we are aiming to do that with Bathing Bliss which should be live very soon (we hope you snowboarding webmaster peeps) and are pulling back to focus mainly on made to measure shower screens and made to measure shower doors. We’ll also be offering the glass splashbacks for bathrooms but very little else.

Hopefully all will become clear in the not too distant future. The old site is still there but is a tad fragmented so before the launch of the new one give us a call on 0845 0450336 or email us.

Do you watch TV?

In particular do you watch Saturday Kitchen with James Martin on a Saturday morning on BBC1? If so you’ll notice the lovely blue worktops they perform all of their kitchen wizardry on!! The ones in the photo to the left which James is lovingly leaning on! Well we made them!! How lovely yes? We mix in fine circles here at Kitchen Calm and you lovely folk may not be aware that as well as fabricating beautiful and exuberant glass worktops we also make Corian worktops. We do it’s true and you can view them here http://www.kitchencalm.co.uk/corianhome.htm

The colour in Saturday kitchen is a group 1 colour known as Beach Glass and was fabricated a couple of years back now. It’s a funny story as to why it was Corian instead of glass (and when I say funny of course what I truly mean is - mildly interesting with a possible smirk factor). We originally had glass planned for the all new Saturday Kitchen - as those of you who may remember Antony Worrall Thompson jumped ship to ITV (the traitor!!) and BBC rebooted the Saturday morning cooking show using James Martin as the host - but when we attended site with samples etc.. they reflected the entire lighting rig of the studio. It would appear that neither the lovely people at Cactus TV and ourselves (many years dealing with glass I should add) had realised that glass is in fact highly reflective!! It may be perfect for bringing vibrancy and light into your domestic kitchen but in a TV studio it’s a bit of a no go. So we regrouped and decided that Corian was the best option and could at least still add that touch of pizzazz which Cactus were trying to achieve.

As stated in the above parenthesis the humour may be somewhat hard to locate in that tiny tale. However Corian worktops are not so hard to locate. Have a look at our corian page and while you’re there view the splashbacks page as most folk we sell Corian to buy splashbacks aswell thus saving on site costs etc… Have fun!!

Metallic!!

Aswell as standard block colours your glass splashbacks can have a metallic effect added. This can create all manner of exciting results, the image to the left is a grey with a metallic effect which we call silver (how imaginative I here you say!-).

We are currently manufacturing a job where the customer has used our colour ‘steel’ and is having it with a metallic finish which we should hopefully have some new images of very soon.

In the meantime if you have any queries regarding what we can do with the metallic range of colours have a look at www.kitchencalm.co.uk or give us a call on 0845 0450336. Also on a side point the bathing bliss website is well and truly underway so keep checking back as our new logo will be up on this very blog real soon (how exciting I here none of you say!-)

Not Long Now!!

What’s not long now?? Patrick Stewarts hair? The length of time it takes to make a long distance call?? The launch of the brand spanking glorious new bathing bliss website??? (the link to the left will currently take you to the old site)

I think you can state a firm yes to all of the above. However, the new website is our primary concern!! It’s looking fantastic and will provide you lovely people with the finest portal this side of the milky way to peruse and purchase glass and glass products for your bathroom. We’ve ditched the sanitary ware and the shower heads themselves and are now solely focused on shower screens and splashbacks.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be bringing you various tasters of the feel for the new site. If you have any queries regarding glass either screens, splashbacks or worktops please don’t hesitate either emailing us at www.kitchencalm.co.uk or calling on 0845 0450336.

Add a Touch of Spice

Here's a pic of a recent job in one of our newer colours 'Cayenne'. The customer wanted something hot and cold which 'Cayenne' offers beautifully - as the colour adds the warmth and the glass itself provides a chilli (see what I did there?-) exterior.

Have a look at http://www.kitchencalm.co.uk/glasscolours.htm and view our wonderful range of hot and cold colours. If you would like a brochure sending please email sales@kitchencalm.co.uk with your address details and we'll have one dispatched.

The Magic of Colour

Colour is a peculiar and very subjective 'subject'. As my mother always said "there's no accounting for taste" (she also said eat your greens and don't annoy your brother but neither of these are particlauraly relevant to this post) and this week we've had a number of odd queries regarding what can and can't be done with colour on the glass splashbacks and worktops.

In light of these questions I've decided to write this post to explain a small amount about colour on glass and the range of effects as well as colours which we can handle.

Paint - All of the coloured glass which we fabricate and sell are painted products. The glass in itself has no colour (other than the natural green seen in a standard float glass but I'll write another post explaining this thorny subject at a later date as the majority of glass we use is low iron glass which doesn't have any green and can confuse from time to time). The colour is applied in the form of a very special resin based spray which we apply to the back of the glass.

Colour - We offer a small selection from the vast world of colour which you can view if you have a look at www.kitchencalm.co.uk/glasscolours.htm and full colour brochures are available if you'd like to email us at sales@kitchencalm.co.uk However it is possible to have practically any colour you so wish as we not only have the finest colour mixers the land has seen but also we have very simple formulas provided by the paint manufacturer who understand that lots of folk may not want the tone of pink we call marshmallow but would prefer farrow and ball cinder rose 246.

Effects - Any colour can be applied with a metallic or sparkle gloss giving it that extra touch of glamour. The most popular being silver and gold but the effect can be applied to all colour with varying degrees of sucess. The glass itself can be sandblasted in either a simple pattern or a more complex design of your own. We can also back paint textured glass such as stippolyte but in most instances you lose the effect of the texture when you paint it.

I hope this helps in some manner. If you would like any further details please don't hesitate either having a look at www.kitchencalm.co.uk or giving us a call on 0845 0450336 or 01642 648444 where we'll be more than happy to explain in greater depth the wonderful ways in which glass can be applied to your project. In the meantime though perhaps you would like to pay more attention to eating your greens. It may not be relevant to this post but it's sound advice!-)

Peppermint Wall

As more and more of you lovely folk are becoming accustomed to the idea of using coloured glass splashbacks as a means to cover other walls in your home (other than those in your kitchen that is) more of your rooms are becoming transformed by glass.

Here is a picture of a job recently finished which depicts almost the entire wall behind the sink, toilet and unit in a bathroom. The colour works beautifully, as you can see, and the cleaning time I've been informed has been dramatically reduced (apparently the weekly scrub of the tile grout has not been missed :-)

For further details have a look at www.kitchencalm.co.uk where you'll see our extensive range of colours and more details on the ways in which splashbacks and glass worktops can be utilised.