The SILVER Kitchen Design Service includes everything you would get from the Bronze Service but it also involves an initial design survey visit - from Marion - to your home, where she can ply you with questions. She will also give you advice, show you pictures, measure any walls that are in position (or take measurements from your plans), be a nosey parker round the rest of your house (no, honestly - it often helps - to get a sense of your style and colour choices!) and drink your coffee.

An initial preliminary visit is free, if you are within the Nottingham area. You can pick Marion's brains and see if you would like further services.

If you live further afield then I'm afraid you need to commit yourself to paying the basic Silver Service fee - and the initial visit is also the design survey visit - but do have a good look round all the pictures here (including the Kitchen Design Gallery) and have a look at Majjie's blog, to see if she's the designer for you.

The basic fee is £250 (see the bottom of the page for a summary of extra charges) and for that you normally get the initial visit, a detailed plan, CAD visualisations, a specification and unit list ... and recommendations as to what sort of kitchen to buy. The initial ideas will, once again, be sent to you by e-mail. Alterations can be made to the plan - within the original price (so you can ask for a complete re-think, if you like) ... as long as the kitchen is of average size and not too complicated.

The Silver Service is suitable for those of you who would like a detailed discussion of your requirements before the kitchen plan is drawn up ... for those of you who have complicated rooms with lots of nooks and crannies, or require a complicated kitchen style ... and for those of you contemplating extensions and alterations to the structure of your house - but who are not entirely sure what those alterations should be or where, exactly, the kitchen should go.

Here are some examples of Silver Service Designs:

The following pictures are all of the same kitchen - but show several different plans. It was to be classical furniture, made in a traditional way ... but with a modern feel to the design. The room was a simple but large  oblong ... so, it was the furniture itself which had to add interest and structure  ... and with quite a big room, there are so many options ...

 The only thing that stayed virtually in the same position throughout (virtually ... get it!?  ... sorry!) ... was the fridge-freezer.

Sometimes very large kitchens are the most difficult to design, especially with the trend towards open plan living ... there can be a lack of wall space for all your kitchen appliances. Just have a look at the size of this one:

The plan needed to include a four oven Aga ... with an additional module ... which needs quite a lot of wall space:

Of course, some smaller kitchens can get complicated too:

If you're interested in a Silver Service design for your kitchen, please get in touch by e-mail or telephone, and we can arrange an appointment.

More About The Charges

• £250 covers a basic plan for an average kitchen which is within 3 hours travelling time from Nottingham. As with the Bronze Service, you would normally get one major or several minor changes/tweaks to the initial plan within this price ... you then get a specification and unit list with plan and visualisations ... all sent to you by e-mail. If you pay £250 - then you will always get at least one set of design ideas and a plan (with a few tweaks possible).
• for an extra £10 you get a hard copy of the final plan and specification sent to you in the post, with the visualisations printed onto glossy paper
• we rely on Google to tell us whether or not you are within the three hours travelling time ... but we give you five minutes leeway ... if Google says the journey will take 3 hours and 5 minutes, then you're ok.
• For journeys that take more than three hours but less than four hours (according to Google) ... add £25 to the price. I'm afraid we don't normally travel further than a four hour journey from Nottingham.
• LONDON ... that is within the M25 ... has special rates because of the extra travelling cost or time invariably involved (which Google doesn't register!). During the week we would normally arrange to travel by train (Nottingham to St Pancras and then by Underground) although if parking isn't a problem, a weekend car journey can often be arranged. Either way, there is an extra charge of £40 for London visits.
• some kitchens are larger and more complicated than others. If your room is larger than around 25 sq.m (5m x 5m ... or 3.5m x 7m, say) ... or it includes a utility room/garden room or other additional area to be planned ... or you already know that you want to use handmade or bespoke furniture with inset-framed doors (which take longer to enter onto the CAD system and specify) ... then there may be extra charges. Extra time is charged at £25 per hour. We can keep you updated as to how much the extra time is costing you ... or you can give us a limit as to how much you are prepared to spend.
• About half of our Silver Service designs are completed for the basic £250 fee ... and even for large, difficult kitchens with bespoke, handmade units, we rarely charge more than £400 ... except for those who want a second home visit ... but then that's our Gold Design Service.