The Kitchen (part 1)

February 2015

When we moved to the house we removed the old kitchen units and fitted some hand-made wooden shaker units in their place. We also started the big job of removing the tiles from the walls and stripping the layers and layers of wall-paper. 

The electric cooker was replaced with a rayburn to help keep the house warm and its done a sterling job in this department. However its not ideal for teenagers trying to cook their dinner while mum is out at work as it relies on thinking ahead to get the oven hot for cooking. So I decided that part of making the house work for the kids had to be fitting an alternative means of cooking so they could just chuck a meal in the oven and press a button in order to eat! 

Now that the boiler and its entourage of pipework have gone I've been able to order some extra units for the other side of the kitchen to incorporate a cooker and hob (due April 13th). In the meantime I focused my energies on sorting out the walls!

The picture of the kitchen from the brochure, walls pale blue with occassional purple areas and purple ceiling.

Kitchen when we moved in with its various floorings

The front door with its tiles!

First we fitted the rayburn as a background heat source

Time to strip those walls!

A bit of investigation under the lino and bitumen screed revealed the original flag-stones

. Bit ropey but eventually I will cleam them up!

First lot of kitchen units arrive. Walls still very dodgy with lots of holes!

Managed to get some end of range tiles from fired earth for the splash backs

Finally got to replace the light fittings

The kids insisted on keeping one of the holes so we now have a random head behind a picture frame. Makes interesting conversation!

Finally a white wall, Makes all the difference. Just 3 more walls to go!

Wall number 2

Starting to look like a home

And wall number 3. Just waiting for April 13th now..........