Announcing the Safe Arrival of........

I know it sounds like some proud new parent announcing the arrival of their offspring, and to tell you the truth, the "midwives" carried our "offspring" carefully up the path and deposited it safely into its new home!

Today was the day scheduled for the delivery of the new kitchen.

Winlaton Deliveries phoned us yesterday to inform us that the kitchen would be arriving sometime between 12.00 and 16.00. Today they phoned again to confirm that the kitchen was "en route" and it would arrive between 13.00 and 15.00. Exactly on 13.00 a large van pulled up outside our house, and two men began to unload it!

 Believe it or not what you see in the van was the full contents of our kitchen!

This was the new fridge freezer being brought into the house.

All the base units and wall units were also placed in the kitchen, as well as the fridge freezer. The reminder of the kitchen was carefully carried and stacked in the garage, and the amount of packages and parcels suddenly seemed to have grown!

The garage, bulging with kitchen units!

Here are some of the wall units and the fridge freezer stacked in the kitchen.

Base Units, also stacked in the kitchen

Once all the kitchen parts had been safely stowed, there was the job of fixing a new bi fold door on the pantry.

Pantry door, showing it half open

The next job was to fill in the exterior hole where the vent had been fitted for the tumble dryer.

Matching bricks inserted in the external wall (even though these had been unobtainable for more than twenty years!) How? you may well be asking. Well our garden was the brick dump when the houses were built, and they spread soil over the bricks to create a garden. Luckily I dug up in excess of 150 bricks when I came to prepare the garden, and I kept these. My phrase "They might come in handy at some time" was finally justified!!!!!

Now it was time to start fitting the base units.  There are actually six of these, two of which go from floor to ceiling.

 

These are the four units which will eventually have a worktop on top of them, and a hob and sink fitted into them.

Below are the design plans of the new kitchen, to give you an idea of what it will eventually look like. We hope that by Friday the sink and the washer will be fitted in, connected and in full working order!