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Coundon Tower kitchen refurb finally finished!!!!

Final kitchen update......

We continue to redecorate - this is the biggest benefit of lockdown - we certainly wouldn't have got so much of our house sorted if we had not have had this time at home plus the money we didn't spend on our planned South America trip. Instead we have a completely transformed living room, bedroom and now a finished kitchen - we finally had the new laminate floor laid last week and we are so pleased with how it ties everything together and makes the room so much warmer.  The floor and the work surfaces really work well together - and stay quite neutral so if we ever decide to change the colours they should fit in long term - (if Dr Fred reads this he will leave me - I don't think changing colour is option right now if ever!!!)


This is the kitchen now - when we came to look at the house I kind of lied to Dr Fred saying I could live with the kitchen - cream - if we could get rid of the floor to ceiling beige tiles - I would put up with everything else - we have been together for 15 years now so I reckon he should know by now I never do cream......


This is the Estate Agents photo so you can see how we started!!! We immediately painted the non tiled walls bright lime green to mark out territory and add some colour.  Over the next few weeks we considered what to do to make this huge space work for us.  We removed all the cabinet trims and painted the cabinets three different shades of blue using Frenchic Alfresco paint - which despite terrible reviews worked very well for us. It was really easy to apply and covered the cream - some of it has been on for 9 months now and it hasn't chipped or worn yet and I'm not kind or particularly careful at any level .... once the units were painted it became very apparent we had to have new worktops - which in turn led to a new floor!! In-between all this we removed the seriously nasty beige tiles - luckily the walls were good underneath and only needed sanding before Dr Fred did his first ever tiling (brilliantly) and then I lined out the rest of the walls and then papered using a very fabulous wallpaper by Emma Shipley called Lost Worlds.   The wallpapering was the hardest I have ever done - only one piece went up without needing to be cut and messed with but it was worth all the effort and we are very pleased with the final outcome.  New blinds and light fittings - some (very difficult to put up) shelves and our own art work all combine to make this space original and individual - our home - to be honest it feels quite grown up and tasteful - quite a lot of matching things and colours that go - not quite my usual maximalist style.. it will evolve - in fact I got a bit worried so I painted the undersides of all the cabinets shocking pink just to reassure myself.....


This house is really beginning to feel like our space and our home - its taken quite a lot of effort to remove the seemingly endless anaglypta - today we finished clearing the dining room so we only have the spare room left - the house is looking a bit bare with tatty stripped walls in the hall stairs and landing, Dr Freds Study and now the dining room but its a major achievement to see so much paper gone FOREVER  - next up purple and gold dining room??  Disco porch?

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