A 'Radical' approach: Idea funding !

Ey up my faithful blogworms, I need your help this week, with an idea I've had kicking around in my head for a while.  I know there are a lot of you out there that read my mutterings from week to week I would value your opinions, so here goes !!

I read about several 'crowd funding' projects lately and while we're all familiar with how that works, I'm looking at it from a different viewpoint.

Below you will see examples of different styles and colours of kitchens to study.

Coloured kitchen

 My different slant on crowd funding, for a start, it costs you no money. Well how is it funding, I hear you ask ??

OK, we're 'idea funding' instead...... What ??

Here's how I see it working. Have a think about your ideal kitchen in terms of colour, style, door design, worktop choices. All the things you would think about when choosing your new kitchen, it helps if you're thinking about a new kitchen anyway !!


Submit your ideas to us as if you are an outside freelance designer, looking to design showroom displays. This is the object of the exercise. You don't have to draw the kitchen or plan it in any way, just 'storyboard' it to show us your concept, if chosen, we'll plan a display around it and give you the final say on how it looks.

A lot of you out there, we know, are talented people in terms of design and style and now is your chance to show what you can do to the general public at large. We will choose the design we feel has the most merit and is in tune with todays times, put it on display and tell people, with your permission of course, who is the creative designer who came up with the idea.

Grey kitchen

It's your chance for your '15 minutes of fame' so to speak.

This will cost you nothing and if you are thinking about a new kitchen for yourselves, we will provide you with the kitchen itself at cost price !!

You will then have access to the display to show it to your friends, family, relatives, in fact anyone you want to bring along to look at your masterpiece. Show off a little, you will have earned it !!

Country kitchen

Our showroom will become "your showroom". You will get the chance to talk about your inspiration, how you came up with it, why you made the choices you did etc. AND for all the people who buy into your design, we will produce their kitchen for them on your behalf .... and ... give you a commission on every one sold, just as any freelance designer would expect !!

White kitchen

This a very radical approach to the way showrooms are run. Designed by kitchen buyers for kitchen buyers where we do all the technical bit in the middle and you potentially reap some of the benefits. 

We will give you access to all our product choices here in the showroom, if you wish, and we need you to think about 5 elements for your concept:

(1) Cabinet choice and colour
(2) Door colour and style, to use seperate handles or not ?
(3) Worktop choice, material and colour
(4) Tile or wall clad colour and materials
(5) Flooring type, colour and materials.

Now with this being so radical an approach, we don't even know if it will work but if you are serious about giving it a try and using it to earn some extra income, then get in touch and let us know your thoughts. 

We will need quite a few people to get creative for it to work and give us the ability to decide on the merits of one concept against another. So the opportunity is there for as many people as possible, you will all have an equal chance of fame !!

It's over to you now to get in touch to see if this idea has a merit at all. It's never been done before and even I don't know if it will work.

I'll keep you posted as to how this progresses week to week. 

Thinking radical thoughts. Jules