Project : Kitchen

I can finally hang up my overalls and put tools in the garage because I have finished my flat! Three months of scraping and painting and drilling, I think I underestimated how much I had to do and how exhausting it would be. Anyhow I aimed to finish it in September and I just about did.

It feels more like home now. It is very white, I think that white walls help me mentally in some way, I do struggle to cope sometimes (as we all do) and my surroundings effect me a lot. So, it is nice to have a bright clean place to live in, as I work from home too, I will see a lot of these walls!

My children liked the way it looked when we moved in but I wasn't so keen on the blue and cream gloss tiles and cupboards from the previous owner, so I painted them...

It is a small kitchen but I just about squeezed in a table for us.

I put up a few extra shelves and I changed the cupboard handles to brass ones and put up some lights.

I made a (very small) utility area behind the door!

I hid the ugly orange oven plug switch with a picture - cards from Gemma Koomen

I have much less space here than in our old house, when I moved I had to be really careful about only taking things I really love using or looking at. I also cut down on clothes for us three and only have the minimum, so now I have less washing and clothes to put away. We only have three of everything in the kitchen so less washing up too! If you visit, bring your own mug/plate/towel/fork.

That was a joke, I have some extras hidden away.

Some boring jobs were to sand down the window frames and repaint them, same with the cupboard doors.

These were gloss laminate, I sanded them (and filled the holes left by the old handles) and used Dulux Trade Supergrip Primer (Also used this on the tiles) I used a special topcoat for laminate cupboards and a tile paint using a smooth roller. I re-grouted and sealed the tiles after painting.

These are the before pictures

I'm going to focus on jewellery making for a bit now, as xmas is coming! but I will try and update here more often now we all feel a bit more settled. I also need to concentrate on myself a bit too, I really need to chill out for awhile! Thank you for following my progress here, I have really enjoyed all your comments and messages which I read with a glass of wine after a hard day of painting each week x