Wealden Times | WT200 | October 2018 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

ScHmidt
Leigh Colbran, Design Consultant
When new clients come in we give them a tour of the showroom, talk about the
project they have in mind and show them the quality of our product – a lot of
what’s good about Schmidt is behind the doors.
To demonstrate this, we stand in our drawers and then let them soft close.
It makes an impression, because they know it’s being done every day and the
drawers are still good.
In our kitchens, everything has been thought about. There’s a great movement
towards pull out units, making everything accessible, so you don’t have to get on
your knees to try and reach that abyss at the back of the cupboard, where things
get lost and you end up rebuying things you already had.
Because we have a home living range as well, in a run of tall housing, we can
add in bespoke book casing, bifold doors and pop out shelves, that you can use
to tuck a coffee machine away, making a dead corner useful and pretty.
We’ve got over 1000 door front choices and 24 carcass interior colours, so you
can create a bespoke combination. People usually have some idea and we can
guide them through a process of elimination in the showroom.
We also have our own laminates, which are water resistant, they don’t peel.
Our plinths are also water resistant, with a rubber seal that is embedded into the
base of the plinth so no moisture can get underneath. They are also bracketed so
they are fixed, there are no wonky kickboards.
Schmidt Tunbridge Wells, Kent 01892 547132,
Sevenoaks, Kent 01732 755555 home-design.schmidt/en-gb
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