Home Centre

The kitchen is the center of the house. At least, it's the place where people always gather wherever we live. So we are pleased to be working on our new kitchen at last...

The space is quite large -- actually it's the biggest room in the house. In the end, about half of it will be taken up by the kitchen itself, with the rest forming a dining/sitting area. The first priority was to get some basic facilities into place -- sinks, cooker, cabinets.

We imported the two sinks from the UK. They are old butler-style sinks that came from a school in Amersham -- where my sister's children were pupils. With a bit of engineering (they are VERY heavy!), they fit in very nicely. One is for washing, the other for draining. At least, that's the current plan.

I've previously mentioned the granite countertop that we ordered. Here it is going into place:

The big hole was filled up with the hob/cooktop, like this:

So now we are beginning to feel quite comfortable in our new workspace, though there's still quite a lot to do...

The rest of the house is beginning to feel like home, too.

And I'm getting on with some work downstairs on the ground floor, such as this tiling in and around the utility room: