Finally got round to ordering the new kitchen. With a Christmas deadline for installation.
We chose an IKEA kitchen and when it was delivered I was pleasantly surprised to find that every individual package was coded, which made it very easy to check against the order list and easy to keep track of which part goes with which when the units were being assembled. Not one thing was missing. Well done IKEA.
Our kitchen certainly isn't the biggest we've ever had, which made it even more important to make the most of the little space we had. The washing machine was moved downstairs into the utility room to give us more room and open up the 'dead space' corner.
Whilst the kitchen is quite small, the ceilings are quite high, which meant we could go for relatively tall wall units to increase the storage space. As with the right-hand side corner the left-hand corner was also 'dead space'.
A final look at the kitchen as it was.
The strip out starts!
Prior to starting the strip out at the weekend, I had been assembling the new units in another room during the week due to a general lack of space (did I mention that the kitchen is quite small) and to reduce the time we spent without a working kitchen as we were still living at home during the work.
You can see the amount of wasted space in the corner, it's pretty much the size of a whole 600mm unit and apart from poor planning, I don't really know why the previous designer/fitter didn't make use of it. You can also see the former serving hatch through to the Dining Room..
Well, that's the strip out complete and yes, we did feel it necessary to take down the fake blind/fixed curtain thingy, and no, it won't be going back up. Next step was for the electrician to come in and re-wire the kitchen, fitting new sockets, appliance isolation switches and upgrading the mains fuse box to take the necessary new 'ring main.'
It's amazing how big the room looks when it's empty........Not!
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