Thursday 12th November - day of decisions

Here's the state of the kitchen last night after the fitters had left;

That large piece of worktop on trestles will go on the remaining units out of sight to the right, here;

I am so looking forward to having a kitchen where I am not standing in my own shadow  to cook for the first time ever! And enough electric sockets, all at a sensible height, so I'm not longer everlastingly unplugging and plugging in appliances. No more trailing electric flexes over and around everything.

Decisions... yesterday I chose tiles and bathroom ware; a combination toilet and basin unit something like this, will just fit on one wall,

leaving ample space for the shower at the other end. 

Today they are doing the tiling, tomorrow everything, including the central heating radiator, will be connected. 

It's much warmer today. Yesterday it rained, and wax also the day for cutting worktops. The fitters set up a gazebo just outside (I always thought they were pronounced 'gaze-bo' until I actually said the word out loud...) and had the doors open all day. Today is sunny, and the doors can be kept closed. What a difference!

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There's a little bit of cheerful colour outside the french windows now;

Next week we will have partly moved into the extension and I shall be able to sit and watch them grow. (The blue fabric draped at the top of the picture is the collapsed gazebo).

This weekend we'll have to empty the old kitchen as the same two fitters (shout out to Max and Joe of 'mm Perfection') will be gutting it and installing the shower room.

At some stage the flooring will go down (light oak laminate) and another coat of paint will happen. 

It's all coming together very quickly!