Yes, Yes, I have been rather slack keeping up to date with our progress but I am currently drowning under a chaotic pig sty that I once called my home. I know that it will be whole again soon but right now when half of the house doesn't have a place to put anything I am rather unmotivated to clean anything. So instead I try to create some sort on normalcy in a chaotic space. I have decided to embrace the chaos instead of fight it.
The creation of our new kitchen has begun. The exciting day arrived when the big white truck backed into our driveway and unloaded all of our cabinetry. One single builder then came and put our whole kitchen together in about 4 or 5 hrs.... Nath has worked for weeks and their done in half a day!!
This was so exciting!! Although we had to patiently wait for the bench tops to go in, floor to be finished, the plumber and electrician to finish off and the splash backs to be installed the actual guts of the kitchen was there. We got to walk though the space and start to get an idea about how our new kitchen was going to look and feel. About the space we had created.
At one stage someone said "is the kitchen going to look good?" My response was "I have no idea! I have never designed a kitchen before!" and this is exactly how I felt! The process is rather absurd, you go in and through a series of questions you select different parts of a jigsaw puzzle. Problem is you have never seen the big picture!! They are all random elements that you HOPE will work together... but it is hard to tell from 5cm square swatches!
My vision in designing our kitchen was for it to be, light, clean, airy and natural. I also wanted to ensure that it wasn't a kitchen that would offend many peoples taste, therefor adding to the resale value of our house.
A week later bench tops finally came which meant our sink was in also. The following day the floors were finished and we realised that this 'nearly finished kitchen' had to wait until the plumber and electrician could come NEXT WEEK before we could move in or use anything!!! So close and yet so far....
Now we patiently tap our fingers and toes to pass the time before we can use our 'almost ready' kitchen :)
Well this is a little late as I have been busy cooking up a storm in our new kitchen!!! So as promised here are some photos of our new kitchen....
We are very much enjoying it and wondering how we ever managed to survive our old kitchen!
Okay, I know I'm pumping them out tonight but I finally have a second to sit and write, so I'm catching up!
Both the plumber and the electrician were here today, which means we finally have power, water, drainage etc etc which means we can use our kitchen!!!!
In fact the only thing missing is the glass splash back and that is still a week or two away.
Because it isn't all looking so show room perfect yet, I'm only doing to show you some snippets until the glass is in and we can show it off properly :)
We had great joy this afternoon, moving in the essentials to the new kitchen and starting to play with our new appliances. I had a hearty laugh as we ran the dishwasher for the first time and the kids and I sat on the floor of the kitchen and listened to is run for about half and hour :) It's the little things :) Then when dinner was being cooked, I walked in and found Nath, sitting on the floor of the kitchen watching the oven cook our Spanikopita (guess it runs in the family :))
To my joy and delight, while we were cooking dinner the kids exactly as I hoped the would. They turned the telly off, unprompted, and came to join us at the bench, sharing in the cooking process and sitting up there and reading books. Being a part of the kitchen life again, which our old kitchen didn't really encourage.
We keep finding ourselves standing there staring at how beautiful it all is, our old decrepit kitchen now distant in our memories as we appreciate the beautiful kitchen we now get the pleasure to use many times every day. I'm one happy lady and I look forward to the coming few days as we unpack and make home again.
Yes, Yes, I have been rather slack keeping up to date with our progress but I am currently drowning under a chaotic pig sty that I once called my home. I know that it will be whole again soon but right now when half of the house doesn't have a place to put anything I am rather unmotivated to clean anything. So instead I try to create some sort on normalcy in a chaotic space. I have decided to embrace the chaos instead of fight it.
The creation of our new kitchen has begun. The exciting day arrived when the big white truck backed into our driveway and unloaded all of our cabinetry. One single builder then came and put our whole kitchen together in about 4 or 5 hrs.... Nath has worked for weeks and their done in half a day!!
This was so exciting!! Although we had to patiently wait for the bench tops to go in, floor to be finished, the plumber and electrician to finish off and the splash backs to be installed the actual guts of the kitchen was there. We got to walk though the space and start to get an idea about how our new kitchen was going to look and feel. About the space we had created.
At one stage someone said "is the kitchen going to look good?" My response was "I have no idea! I have never designed a kitchen before!" and this is exactly how I felt! The process is rather absurd, you go in and through a series of questions you select different parts of a jigsaw puzzle. Problem is you have never seen the big picture!! They are all random elements that you HOPE will work together... but it is hard to tell from 5cm square swatches!
A week later bench tops finally came which meant our sink was in also. The following day the floors were finished and we realised that this 'nearly finished kitchen' had to wait until the plumber and electrician could come NEXT WEEK before we could move in or use anything!!! So close and yet so far....
As he rebuilt he found other things that needed fixing, skirting boards, roof flashing, walls, floors so on so on...
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