Alan finally tipped over the last big plant pot of homegrown potatoes for me.
We got a respectable three pounds of spuds from just two tiny sprouted supermarket potatoes, not bad at all. We shared them between us and whilst I've still got mine, Alan enjoyed his immediately with some fish, rice and peas.
Alan's gotten around to a few things this week that he's been putting off for ages and one of them was getting an A4 sized box off the top of his fridge-freezer, it turned out that it contained the planning permissions for when the annex was originally built and also in there were my plans for my new kitchen, drawn out after we had put our offer in on the house.
As you can see I do detailed plans. 😄
Well I did obviously do some measuring too. 😁
I sat racking my brains for ages wondering what the JJ in the top right-hand corner could be ... then the penny dropped and I realised they were supposed to be coat hooks!!
Folded up in the box were three paper 'patterns' for various items, the Welsh Cheese and Bread Cupboard (now known as the Food Cupboard), the SMEG and the radiator cover. I used these to check that the three unfitted components of the new kitchen would fit alongside any fitted cupboards that I had installed.
The old kitchen came out ... I sold it for £100 to a guy who came with his mate and dismantled it and took it away to put into a rental property he owned, far better than me having to pay for a skip.
And then I sat down with a local kitchen designer/fitter and brought my vision to life.
And after quite a bit of waiting it was finally installed. It all worked out just fine, and I still love my kitchen, even if it did start out as a few scribbles on a printed out photograph and a scrap of paper.
Sue xx
Oh that looks lovely. The Very Cheap kitchen installed by the previous owners is literally disintegrating at the minute. It's nearly 20 years old and plastic fittings are snapping etc. We're at the "back of the envelope" stage. But the cost is rather prohibitive. And we have to factor in boiler replacement.... But I do like the light appearance of your units...
ReplyDeleteThey've done well too, now over three years later they still look as good as new, even if they are a bit more cluttered. 😄
DeleteWell done with the potato harvest!
ReplyDeleteA well planned kitchen and it turned out really nicely.
I'm still happy with it, it's probably the best laid out kitchen I've had. Not quite enough storage space, but then there's no room for any more. 😄
DeleteI love your kitchen and it’s super use of the available space. Our kitchen was drawn up by the Shedman as I have very poor special awareness. It was IKEA units which are now obsolete and last year we had new worktops fitted as the other wooden ones had started to rot. Some new tiles and I painted the walls a pretty lemon colour and am delighted with the makeover. Catriona
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have given it a brilliant update, I bet it feels so fresh in there now.
DeleteThose spuds are amazing. Your kitchen is such a clever use of the available space.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
I was pleased that they hadn't rotted away in all the rain we've had, that large one is amazing and I got that one as Alan wanted all the small ones to have as new potatoes. :-)
DeleteFor the last 5 houses I've planned new kitchens then, just as I've nailed the design, moved so we didn't end up tackling the job. I'm determined we are staying here so at some stage the kitchen will have to be dealt with. I'm not looking forward to the disruption or expense. I am (eventually) looking forward to getting rid of some horrible top corner units that are useless and some absolutely ghastly tiles which includes a flowery thing with lots of tiny features for dirt to gather in directly behind the hob 😲😒 When we moved in it took hours to clean with a toothbrush and has had to have cling film over it ever since. The ideas some people have!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't have coped with living in the annexe while all the ripping out and the main part of the kitchen was installed, luckily we were renting nearby at the time, the upheaval is awful for a new kitchen isn't it.
DeleteI'm dreading it. I do love what you ended up with. So I'll bear in mind that the suffering will be worth it.
DeleteIt's a case of gritting your teeth and pushing through. At least you now know exactly what you want. 🙂
DeleteYour kitchen is lovely. You did very well with your plans.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Thank you, I think after living in so many home in the past I knew exactly what I wanted, and having lived in the caravan I knew how to make sense of the limited space here.
DeleteI absolutely love your kitchen ❤️ Fabulous design and use of space 👏 Like you, we've had a heaps of potatoes grown from supermarkets ones 👍
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to have some homegrown foods isn't it. There's nothing left to harvest now, so all that's left of this years crops is a big bag of garlic in the freezer.
DeleteA cracking potato harvest, ours was depleted after two dinners!
ReplyDeleteYour kitchen looks very bright and modern, well done for having such vision. xxx
Yes, only a small harvest really and just a couple of meals each but it's still worth it isn't it. And of course because of our ridiculously wet Summer I didn't even have to water them much, so free and virtually no work. :-)
DeleteLovely looking potatoes there. The only thing we have left at the allotment is sprouts now, and the slugs are decimating the ones on the lower end of the stalks. I'm picking ones to eat from about halfway up (working upwards) and desperately hoping the slugs won't traverse the gap! ...lol
ReplyDeleteHaha, that sounds like a brilliant plan. I wonder if there's something you could rub on in the gap to help deter them even more ... just in case there are a few Tom Cruise-like daredevils that will persevere and climb up. :-)
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