Kitchen 2.0

When we bought our house, three years ago, it had been rented out for about thirty years. It was what real estate agents euphemistically call a 'renovator's delight'. Still, we could see that the location was fabulous, the back yard spacious, and the house the right size for our needs. Gradually we went about adding, repairing and replacing all the missing and broken bits. Insulation, curtains, heating, awnings, screen doors, a hand rail ... and fifteen months ago we replaced the bathroom, which was barely functional (before and after pics here).

Having recovered from the trauma of that reno, this week we did the kitchen! While we liked the layout and colourings in the old kitchen, it was becoming more and more broken. Here's what it looked like two weeks ago:

Here's what it looked like ten days ago:

And here's the new kitchen (including a peek in my whiz-bang new pantry cupboard):

There are still a few things we need to do (organise flooring and paint the cornices) but it's looking pretty swish. It will be fun to cook in a kitchen where the space is used more efficiently and everything works!