20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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20 Months in the making and its finally finished
In Jan 2006 the missus and myself decided to re-fit the kitchen. As were not of Lord Rothschild's family we had a tight'ish budget. All the units including doors were hand made by myself, the kitchen was designed by Helen, the only items we paid full price for were the worktops IKEA £63, Sink + fittings £85 from B&Q as were the floor tiles @ £6 sqr mtr & wall tiles from Wickes @ £7 sqr mtr.
The whole kitchen was re-wired with lots of additional sockets, re-plumbed the water & waste, we have a fitted filter & tap for drinking\cooking water (it tatse's disgusting round here) Under-unit lighting was scrounged and consists of 4x600mm 20w strip lights. We kept the washing machine and dishwasher as they were nearly new anyway and we brought a new cooker and tumble and the extractor hood was a pressie from my in-laws.
The kitchen has a max dimension of 2.3mtr (window end) x 3.4mtr.
As were well chuffed at the final result I thought I would share a few pics 
If there are any questions comments I would love to see them (good or bad)
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
Nice!
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01-10-2007, 19:43
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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All the units including doors were hand made by myself
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01-10-2007, 19:45
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
Looks great 
Was it a nightmare grouting all those mosaic tiles? 
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01-10-2007, 19:48
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
Nice looking kitchen...
Love the old scales! 
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01-10-2007, 19:55
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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Love the old scales! |
OMG! I used to use scales like that in my first Saturday job...
I suddenly feel very, very old.
Nice kitchen BTW. I wish I could be that good at DIY, but I've got two right hands and as I'm left handed that's not very useful.
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01-10-2007, 19:59
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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Looks great
Was it a nightmare grouting all those mosaic tiles? |
Nope they are 400 x 300 mosaic effect, so a little bit of cheating but have a great look, Helen found those in wickes, end of line I think thats why so cheap.
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The scales belonged to Helens Great Uncle Roo who owned a bakers in Hucknall and very old
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01-10-2007, 20:05
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
al, well done - very impressive.
You must be chuffed.
What next?
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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Nope they are 400 x 300 mosaic effect, so a little bit of cheating but have a great look, Helen found those in wickes, end of line I think thats why so cheap.
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I so wish my friend had done that, he's got me lined up to grout his whole bathroom of them
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01-10-2007, 20:50
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
Great stuff!
My only question is, when are you coming to do mine?
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01-10-2007, 21:36
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
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I so wish my friend had done that, he's got me lined up to grout his whole bathroom of them |
Mosaic grouting is a smear (with a soft grout spreader) and wipe down (with a sponge) job rather than the cleaner job you might do on larger tiles. Easier than you think.
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01-10-2007, 22:13
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
I looked at the last pic in your first post and I thought: That's finished? 
Then I saw you had posted a few more. Good stuff Looks great!
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01-10-2007, 23:51
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Re: 20 Months in the making and its finally finished
The new kitchen looks great. I bet you both get a real kick out of seeing what you have achieved.
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