A blog to record the progress of our house ' do-er-upper' project. It will act as a memory book to record everything we went through on our house renovation project, the before and after and our trials and tribulations. Here's hoping for a nice and easy, straight forward, house renovation project!
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Kitchen
Monday, 1 April 2013
One whole year!
The original kitchen and sun room...
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Update
Well the DIY has taken a bit of a back burner recently and we've been enjoying living in a semi-normal house for a while. We're loving the kitchen! It's easy to work in and it looks as good as we'd hoped!
We've had our first soiree in this house with some friends, it only took a year! Today we're entertaining for the second time, paying back one of the many meals my in-laws cooked for us when we were without the kitchen.
It's be wrong to post without some form of progress, so here's the cooker hood which arrived today and took all morning to fit!
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Engineer
Having: taken the kick board off, pulled the dishwasher out, un-kinked and reconnected the supply pipe, removed all of the silicon from the floor and kickboard, put the washer back in, put the kickboard back in and re-siliconed... I'm happy to say that the dishwasher it's fixed! Well it's currently running and has at least got water in it so I hope I haven't spoken too soon!
When the installers had pushed the dishwasher into the unit they managed to crush the water pipe... That meant the water pressure was very low and so the machine wouldn't start as a protection feature!
Fingers crossed that's the end of our manual dishwashing days!
Monday, 11 February 2013
Dishwasher
Having been without a kitchen for four months, one thing that we were looking forward to the most was the fact we'd never have to do the washing up again on account of our shiny new dishwasher. We loaded it up last night with all our crockery that's been gathering dust for months, flicked the on switch and left it for what seemed like hours to do it's thing! It was a massive disappointment when we opened the door to find everything add dirty as when we'd left it! It seems like water can drain from the machine but it won't let any in... Having exhausted all of the simple checks, I think it's time to call the installers... Sigh... Another few days of manual washing up it is...
Saturday, 9 February 2013
The big move...
...well the start of it at least. With the work in the kitchen more or less complete (the stuff we're dependent upon other people for at least...) we've started moving stuff in! Not before having a good clean of the place first though.
It's hard with such a lot of room to decide where things should go though. I guess that's something which will come worth time when we start using it in earnest.
It still makes me grin walking into the room though as it's as good as we'd hoped it would be!
We put the table I'm the room today and I'm happy to say it fruits with room to spare. I can envisage many-a-morning sat there eating my breakfast, looking out into the garden!
There are still a lot of finishing touches to do like skirting board etc. but at least it's a functioning kitchen! We even had our first oven cooked meal at home for nearly for months tonight! It'd just be wrong if it wasn't pasta...
Friday, 8 February 2013
Kitchen
The kitchens finished! It's plumbed in, wired up, oiled and sealed! It looks great! The only down side it's we don't have any excuse not to cook anymore...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Kitchen day 2
Another day and more progress. We're so happy with the way it looks! There's still quite a few jobs to do, but it's definitely taking shape!
Monday, 4 February 2013
Kitchen day one
I'm also quite pleased at how roomy it still feels. When the delivery came, I knew that all the stuff was spread out, but it felt quite cramped. Now that everything is in it's rightful place, it feels like they'll definitely be enough room to fit the table.
Friday, 1 February 2013
Delivery
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Blank Canvas
We're now ready for the rest of the kitchen!