A note of support for our fantastic suppliers. As any entrepreneur will tell you, running a business is hard! As you might expect we spend a lot of management time working on activities designed to grow awareness with potential customers, drive sales and reduce cost. But, equally, we focus a lot of time ensuring we deliver… read more
Small can still be beautiful. When potential customers with small kitchens contact us for the first time they’re often apologetic about the size of room they have – and even wonder if it’s big enough for us to consider! Notwithstanding that we’ll never get to a stage where any kitchen project isn’t worth discussing, we… read more
Retail property crisis – you could’ve fooled us! As another news report (this time from Reuters: ‘UK high street property woes gain as retailers teeter’) about the number of shops closing down, I can’t help but compare the content of this article – and the many other ones like it that have been published recently… read more
Is the future already here? We at Nicholas Hythe are big fans of technology but it has to be technology that makes life easier, more interesting or, let’s face it, more fun! So when we heard about a range of Internet connected kitchen appliances our first thought was: why?! They might be fun (for a… read more
The Pros and Cons of whether to install your new kitchen yourself or have your supplier do it The installation of a fully functioning, beautiful new kitchen can be extremely complex and require a significant amount of planning, organising and coordination of the various tradespeople involved. The biggest mistake some clients make is to underestimate the… read more
The case for the much misunderstood kitchen cabinet. In today’s straitened economic times where cost versus a customer’s budget is often the deal maker or breaker, a question we’re often asked by clients is whether they really need the quality of cabinet that we use, namely 18mm Melamine Faced Chipboard (MFC) all the way round? It’s a… read more
The demise of Moben: good or bad for independent kitchen retailers? It may seem odd for the owner of a small, fast-growing independent fitted kitchen retailer to be weighing up the question of whether today’s announcement of Homeform and, in particular, its Moben retail brand going into administration is good for business. On the face… read more
Is your kitchen retailer giving you the whole story? In a market as competitive as the one for fitted kitchens – with the national retailers always trying to grab business from each other by being perceived to offer the ‘best value’ price – it’s not surprising that they’re always looking for tactics to persuade customers… read more
Did you know the most commonly disposed of food items are potatoes, bread, apples and salads? UK domestic households – you and me – throw away 6.7m tonnes of food every year and it’s become a really hot potato (pun intended!). Not that the recycling of kitchen waste is a new issue: since as early… read more
