Friday, July 25, 2014

Kitchen...as it happens in real time

When you look up the word  "demolition" in the dictionary, you'll probably find it reads..."see MONT, Number 10".

My boy does. not. muck. around!

As I type... we've gone from this...



To this...


...and this....


This used to be the old hearth under the chimney in the kitchen. When I did the first renovation way back when, we just got rid of the chimney and worked around the hearth...Pity we didn't get rid of it at the start.


Yes... this is where the bench with the cook-top used to be...



until we ended up with this...



It's almost ready for the new kitchen cupboards to be installed, whenever that may be

At the moment we've got a bit of a makeshift kitchen set up on the back deck. It consists of a kettle and a BBQ so we can put a pot of coffee on each morning. 
We haven't been given a date for the new kitchen installation, but I do know the completion date. 

November 1st...

At least that was my request for the entire project to be finished and ready to go...fingers crossed it's a little bit sooner than that, otherwise we'll be having a heck of a lot of BBQ dinners.


Saturday, July 12, 2014

Here we go.....

The "real" demolition on the kitchen has started this morning

Off came the plaster sheets and cornice...and then Mont got started on the tile behind the cooktop




As you would be fully aware of by now, this kitchen remodel is not a quick process.

No. We take our time at Number 10... Which, to be honest, is a good thing.

If we'd gone at it like a bull at a gate when we first started talking about it, we'd have a different looking beast now to what it will eventually look like.

Sometimes you (I) just have to step back, take things in and consider the possibilities rather than plough ahead and hope for the best

It's a lesson that has taken me some time to learn