Preparing the Kitchen

Building work on the kitchen starts next week, so we've spent quite a lot of the weekend getting it ready. This involved taking out eeeeverything (cupboard contents, shelf, bits'n'pieces, fridge, washing machine, microwave, curtains, extractor hood...), and removing the wall tiles. Yes, technically, this could have been done by the builder. But it goes against the grain to entirely hand over work like this, so we took the tiles down. We'll do the decorating, too, including priming and painting the cupboard doors, and oiling the worktops.

The kitchen now looks a mess (especially the walls), but hopefully will begin its transmogrification into something much more attractive. I've created Google SketchUp models of before and after (below), and—of course—taken photos too.