Sunday, October 31, 2010

House love

I'm so in love with my kitchen. The dog guard is in place and I will be putting on the finishing touches to the kitchen (by moving the buffet) tomorrow. Then I'll start on the huge chest that goes into the hall. I just hope it will be small enough to fit through the door once I have finished painting it.

I've put some photos up on the walls in the hall. It looks really nice and I have found other black frames to put in pics of the dogs or landscapes for the front hall.






Work tops and shelves ...




And tonight's yumminess:

Unsweetened whole-egg pancakes with tomato salad. YUM!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The kitchen is finished ... almost

My kitchen is finished .. well sort of. I still need to clean it, move my kitchen buffett to a different wall and find a small square table and two chairs, BUT!!! Me haz work topz!!!
Beautiful teak stained work tops which need one final glossy finish and several open shelves for cooking books, bric-a-brac and bowls and stuff.
Once the final finish is applied and all is moved in I will take photos.

The next project is ... a tiny one ... a dog fence for our front door.
Atm we are using the yard door to do business with a sign on our front door to go to our yard door. But with the weather getting colder I really don't want to put on my winter coat and my shoes to go out across the yard, to the door, keeping the dogs back when getting mail. So I decided to make a dog fence for the front door which I can hook into the entrance. This way I can open the door, the dogs can look out but don't run into the street - the pavement in front of the house is really small and we live on the stretch of the road which is straight hence a lot of idiots using that piece of road as if it were the Shizuka Formula 1 course. So tomorrow I'll make that and then there will be more painting in my sewing room and more shelves to be put on the walls :)

Oh and the back hall is now dark maroon :) I love


My madness is methodical

My kitchen is slowly but steadily getting into shape and I have developed a strange almost erotic obsession mad fascination with my power tools. Sawing, drilling, sanding ... all in one day's work and enjoying it immensely :) MECHA PORN LOL
Both work tops are now sawed, sanded and sealed. The cupboards are ready and tomorrow I'll mount the tops up on the wall to give them stability. Only thing missing now is the small square table and two chairs. I'm still undecided on the chairs ... Dainty (small) rattan chairs or white wood chairs? Decisions, decisions :)