Kitchen work
Sunday, 1st October 2006 by tomThe plans for our new kitchen are slowly maturing. Yesterday we had builder Des round to give us a quote for the installation. We were very happy with our conservatory work which Des did last year. Des is extremely Irish and a joy to listen to. He’s one of the few people we’ve met who would be very much at home saying, “Begorah”. We could go on giving him work indefinitely just to keep hearing his accent.
We also went to see Vince, our friendly but slightly muddlesome kitchen designer. After two hours of moving things about on his computer layout of our kitchen, we were fairly happy with it. The computer was then able to print out a number of “artistic impressions” of what the kitchen would look like.
I think we’ll take a picture of the real thing once it’s done and gauge how artistic the computer really is. In the meantime, here is our camera’s artistic impression of what the kitchen currently looks like. The comparison is good enough that you can see we’ll be gaining a lot of space by knocking the end wall through into the conservatory.
Vince is going to send us a quote on Monday. We managed to secure a copy of their price list though, so we’ve already worked out approximately what it’s going to cost. The good news is that it is only about two thirds of Vince’s original estimate of two weeks ago. The bad news is that it is still a hefty chunk of cash. It looks like we’ll go ahead though as we’ll be getting so much better usage of space from our kitchen and it will surely increase the value of the flat enough to soften the blow.
