Winter time has meant mostly snuggles and fires at Casa Wrensch but now that the weather is clearing up, stuff is happening again. The garden is looking fabulous – things are going sprout! I’ll try and snap some pictures at the weekend.
In the meantime, please say hello to Mr Chalk, the newest addition to the kitchen:
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Tag Archive: kitchen
herewith a selecton of photographs of bits of the kitchen that we have tweaked for maximum functionality and shinyness.
glass hanging hoohaas, two of ‘em, one on either side of the sink;
extra, half-depth, shelves added to built-in cupboard to stash mahoosive amount of Thai food related paraphernalia; boxy shelvey things above the stove and strange hanging basket thingy.
so, we can has house.
woo! :-D
it is very awesome.
we’re very mostly unpacked (although we again have a single room full of “let’s sort that bit out later” junk), but lots of things aren’t in quite the right place. we’ve plonked everything down in an “okay for now” spot so that we can live here and be happy. bookcases slightly too wide for the slot, couch not in quite the right spot for maximum fireplace sit-and-watch-age, that kind of thing. but we are happy :-) .
so, some quick pics:
L to R: cool morning light in the kitchen; dining room; more kitchen light.
L to R: lounge from the kitchen, with parfait and meep and sproing; Shower of Doom; entrance hall.
Bonus material: sign used to ward off builders before the cats were allowed to roam the house.
We released the cats out into the house a week or so ago, and let them outside yesterday.
Followed them around for a bit, then left them to their own devices.
About ten minutes later we hear plaintive mewing from sproing.
We locate the sound over the back wall.
I get a ladder, climb to the top, and make cat noises.
Sproing then jumps up onto wall and says hello.
He forgot to take his GPS with him, obviously, and got losted (not trapped, as we feared).
Feline overlords, eh? *shrug*
sink.
the possible maybe sort of finished product.
we are having tiling issues ™
ceiling above the dining area – cool but complicated;
the big door – wide;
the pipes that jeremy built – re-use-y.
(i seem to keep starting haiku in my head. why is that?)
so, the paint-a-thon continues – lots of the house done, inside and out.
i’ll take some pics, in daylight, at the weekend.
the tiler dudes are in at the moment, observe their work in progress:
kitchen o’ doom, tiles o’ red
bathroom: sinking, showering and bathing.
arf!
just a quickie today (oo-er).
they’ve mostly been painting stuff today.
self portrait with the kitchen sink.
to the left, to the left: the red tiles that soon will cover all the wood pictured here.
to the right, to the right: stool sample, inverted.
fireplace – now white – woo!
( i even managed to sneakily sneak in a sneaky shot of the doors again :-) )
Jo drew a diagram and sent it to the builder bods.
I think it is awesome.
Here it is…
:-)
(but without the actual sink part of the sinks)
after what feels like ages – kitchen doors! with glass, even.
(the carpenter had health-related problems, hence the delay.)
we like them. they look ace.
some spot light action (tiltage of all lights to follow):
kitchen (pictured: future home of cooker and bench things);
lounge (scaffolding: to be spray-painted gold and accessorised with tiny disco balls, obv.);
study (parfait: seen here herding the rowdy paint tins. they go a bit mental after hours…).
observe the reading spot light spot thing spot in the bay window. spot.
groovy.
that sinky feeling in the kitchen and the bathroom (tiles to be tiled on top in tip top time).
[warning: tall post]
↓ Invisible Men At Work! LOL!
↑ (alternative title: grazing ladders)
↓ Invisible dining room table! OMG!
↑ (alternative title: how they made my hole bigger for me)
↓ Invisible washing machine, dishwasher, and sink! Oh Noes!
↑ (alternative title: i’m so dirty. clean me.)
also:
↓ doors! we can has. almost.
↓ Parfait demonstrating the space-time warping effect of our newly created niche.
To become comfy chair area. Soon with phone! And cool pictures on the walls.
1: we can almost has doors!
2: we can almost has tiled counter top and sink!
3: we can almost has shower!
to follow soon-ish: pictures of the lights.
of especially funishness – reading light in ceiling of bay window.
try and entertain yourselves until then… (-_-)