With the sitting room done, bar all the curtains and dressing, we've moved on to the kitchen. This is a major project and the first with a deadline - Christmas. Actually the weekend before as we have Andrew's brother and his wife to stay and it will be the first time they've seen the house.
I have to confess I'm getting desperate to cook properly. For me it's a way of relaxing which I can't do with just a microwave and a portable halogen oven (brilliant though that is). We can produce edible fuel but not much to dress the table and light the candles for.
While the kitchen was still intact Andrew installed new lighting and channelled out the walls for the sockets. The original lights were two striplights which, bizarrely, had been plastered up to so a lot of filling had to be done to smooth the ceiling.
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| Filling & lighting |
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| More holes, more filling |
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| Wall cupboards gone |
We wanted to get the painting done before the floor went down, it just makes life easier. First we removed some of the old units, keeping the sink. Andrew moved his desk upstairs so we could set up a kitchenette in the office.
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| Office kitchenette |
Ceiling painted, we marked out where all the cupboards were going and set to with the paint. I wanted quite a strong colour and eventually chose Oak Fern, a Kevin McCloud colour by Fired Earth. I love these paints as they have a great texture, complex colours and change with the light.
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| First coat |
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| Just the sink left |
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| More holes, more filling |
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Next on the list is tiling the floor so
Until next time
Sharon
