All tagged kitchen

Kitchen Diaries Part 6: Embracing the not yet

This post could also be called: accepting the incomplete and imperfect whilst hopefully expecting the fulfillment of promises. 

Okay, so the time it is taking for our kitchen to be finished has moved past the ridiculous and I think we are resigned to it just being done when it is done.  What we do now have is some cupboards so we have been able to move most of the kitchen things back into the kitchen and use it! ...

Kitchen Diaries Part 5: Still Going...

Yep, we are now fully into week 11 of our kitchen redesign. This week is the first week we have been able to use the kitchen, even though we still have no cupboards or drawers! Our brand new oven is currently being fixed and is due back next week, as are the cupboards, but with all the unfulfilled hopes we're not expecting too much! ...

Kitchen Diaries Part 1: If you don't ask...

From the time we moved into our house, I have always wanted to change the kitchen.  From the outset, I have hated certain things about it: the cracked floor tiles and the worktops which are covered in small cracked tiles, the gaps between them full of dirty and bacteria-filled grout which breeds fruit flies. I never cared for the decor either, but living simply that wasn’t something top of the priority list. Over the past four years, despite regular cleaning, we have had insects and we have had mice move in and over the summer the cockroaches took over, their babies gloating at us from behind the glass in the microwave display.  Returning from Australia, the fumigators having spread their anti-cockroach gel in every corner and crack, I spent the first two jet-lagged 3am mornings trying to deep-clean the kitchen and wondered if I had just got used to living in such filth over the years or if it had really got worse over our 3-week leave from Peru...