The Kitchen

[Suff]

A few quick answers whilst I work.

The popup is, indeed, 4 French sockets. I’ve already used it for the electric knife on it and it makes things a lot easier. Not much use having a workspace in a modern kitchen without power. Mrs S also wants to use her old laptop as a recipe database so she’ll need the power for it.

Weka Mrs S paints the doors with gloss paint and a brush. Personally I’d user a spray paint but she likes brushes. They’re not as smooth as they look but still very nice.

It is practical but then Mrs S is ever practical and analyses how she works in the kitchen before placing things. The only specification I had was that the drawers not be anywhere near the oven and hob. That is because she always in a bad mood when she does a lot of cooking then snips at me to “help” by putting the cutlery out, the drawer of which she always stands right in front of and gets even more annoyed when I ask her to move again and again and again and… and….. They really don’t work where they are as it’s not optimised, but when we’re working in the kitchen it’s much easier.

The other key point about the setup is that only the fridge is low. The oven and dishwasher are high level. That high unit to the left of the worksurfaces (with its own little one), is the dishwasher. That was a nightmare to plumb, I had to go back into the wall for it….

The light is quite good but is a ten bulb Halogen 12v system. Nowhere on the box did it say that it was 12v as we intended to plug it into a dimmer (which it is). The transformer is mebedded in the dome on the ceiling…. It dims but it also starts to flicker if the second light (230v) is not in circuit.

It works though. It’s been a long time but the end result is good.

It’ll be better when the dining room is done and a lot of the crockery is out of the room giving more space.

One thing you don’t’ see is that the shelves in the cupboards are all made to fit the items that go in. Nothing stacked on top of each other except casseroles and mixing bowls.