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Friday, March 30, 2012

Our Kitchen, finally finished after 2 1/2 years....

Yes, finally our kitchen is finished.

This is what it looked like when we moved in October 2009.

Very 'unfinished' in a lot of ways. We bought out kitchen through 'Kitset', we would not do that again for a number of reasons.....

So, we had a joiner come onboard to complete the look we were after.

Mantle over the stove, decorative panels and corbels on the bench and moulding above the wall cabinets..

The tiler came and Greg painted.

Does anyone else's fridge look like that? Covered in magnets, postcards and school stuff....

We are very pleased with how it ended up looking and the colours we picked out.

We used a special 'grout sealer' on our white grout to stop discolouration.

Now, to finish our pantry....we have stuff all over the floor and stored in an old bookshelf!!!

Bit by bit.

Kathryn. xx

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A week of the house - day 3

Feeling Hungry?

This is the kitchen in all it's unfinsihed glory! Hubs has done a great job putting it all together. We just have to do the bulkhead over the stove to house the rangehood and put in one more cabinet then it's done!

The plasterers will have to come back and finish the cornice at some stage.

The kitchen was purchased through Kitset Kitchens. Whilst we have had a few things go wrong, it is a really good system if they could just get it right first time.

Hubs knows a guy who works at "The Good Guys" so we got all of our appliances at a very good price!

The island bench - and no the kitchen people have not been to see the "Slpit".

One of them actually said "Can you bring it in?" What the......

The handles are from "IKEA". After searching around for ages on the net for the perfect handles, I finally found them. We wanted something fancy without being too fancy if you know what I mean.

The benchtop is "Laminex" Limestone and the cabinets are Frosty white.

Oh, and the tiling still has to be finished too - does it ever stop?

The bulkhead is to be built to house the rangehood and we will have a mantle over the top with a couple of "fancy" corbels!

So, there it is in its' unfinsihed glory.

A new, bigger, dining table is on its' way too. Gosh, we may be able to have some visitors in comfort at last!

Kathryn. XX

Monday, November 16, 2009

A total split.....

We discovered this had happened to the kitchen island bench a few days ago.

I know, how bad is that!

The Kitchen people were supposed to come and have a look at it today...it's nearly 3pm...do you think they will come? After a few "stuff-up's" with said Kitchen people, I would not recommend them to anyone. 'Nuff said.

Moving on.....