kitchen - part 1

The kitchen in the new house is massive. The first time I went in to it, I was completely blown away by the size of it - it is about 24 feet long with a big window at the end overlooking the garden.

In its original state, the outside toilet was in the far corner of the room. Obviously, accessed from outside (hence its name...), but it still jutted into the room. The window on the back wall was off centre, starting in the left-hand corner. When we bought the place there were a huge number of cupboards in the room, and a solid, brick construction in the middle aka the peninsula. Also the lathe and plaster ceiling had many cracks in it, and apparently 27 square meters of wood and plaster falling on your head is not a good thing.

So, what has been done at the moment...
The toilet has gone, and the door bricked up. The old back door has also been bricked up and in due course the back door will be where one of the windows is on the long wall. All the cupboards have gone, the peninsula has been demolished, and the window has been taken out at the back. The wall has been changed to centre the window and made larger, so we will have 7 feet of window over looking the garden. Neither of us is particularly garden-savvy, so we may get a bit depressed looking out our big window at the wild grasses of the lawn, but hey ho. Also the ceiling has gone.

It is so exciting to see the changes. I am really impressed that the builder has been in doing work over the Christmas holidays and just hope that things carry on in this vein. I will add some photos in due course. The next issue is to confirm what cupboards we are putting back in the kitchen! Think we'll need to wait for kitchen part 2 for that though. Bet you can't wait.