The kitchen faces north, east, east and our main aim has
been to make it lighter and brighter – we refitted the kitchen after a couple
of years of living here, and painted everything white including the floor,
which is now becoming nicely worn.
As you can see the room was previously painted a quite dark
blue/purple. We also removed a lot of the wall cabinets, partly because the
wall was damp and secondly it made the room seem bigger without them!
We put in a planning request to change the window to patio
doors, but as the house is Grade II listed – the request was unfortunately
rejected, I would never buy a listed house again – too restricting, although as
discussed in the previous post I can fully appreciate the system for preserving
houses.
The white light fitting above the table is the most
extravagant item (in monetary terms) in the entire house. We first saw it in a
shop in Nottingham, but dismissed the idea of buying it because of the price.
However, I coveted it for several weeks and eventually found an ex-display
model on the internet; I really wrestled with decision of whether to buy or not
to buy – and eventually managed to justify it to myself because of the slightly
reduced price of the display model.
I must admit to being a little shocked by its size when it first arrived (it looked so much smaller in the shop!) but luckily the house has tall ceilings, and it does double as an excellent drying rack!