We are now into week 5 of the great kitchen extension project. The dust levels grow, and the chaos in the kitchen is about to get considerably worse, as the focus moves form the outside, inside today. The guys (Duncan, the boss, Benjie, and Leon) are brilliant, work hard, stay late, have good ideas, and drink endless amounts of tea and coffee. But inevitably the noise and grime at times has been unappealing, to say the least.
This is the back half of the sitting room, currently our dining space, kitchen and bike store.
This is the gap in the kitchen where the gas stove used to be, and where, by next week, an AGA will be installed...
The guys built a temporary wooden wall across the kitchen to keep the worst of the mess outside until now, complete with Hobbit-style door, cut on Friday, / My old kitchen dresser has been wrapped in heavy-duty plastic and remained on the outside, servings a useful tool store...
This is going to be the new utility room, but the glass panels for the roof have still not yet arrived.
There will be big glass doors right across the bad of the kitchen, but they haven't arrived yet.... IN the meantime, we have great ventilation. The guys here are, from the left, Leon, Benj and Duncan's back.
Duncan fixing the electric saw. you can tell he's the boss from the pencil behind his right ear...
It will be brilliant when it is all done, and I shall have a house warming party after Christmas. Duncan etc are top of the list of invitees. It is not quite a year since I got the keys to this house, and I only moved in in January after these same wonderful guys had done a whole load of improvement work from re-wiring and re-pumbing to re-plastering throughout. I must be slightly mad, but the house will see me out, I hope.
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