New Kitchen YAY!!!

Well, finally the kitchen is finished!!  (except for a couple of things I will discuss below)

I think it looks fantastic, what a difference it has made to the house.  It has made it so much lighter and fresher looking.  We have heaps more bench space and the appliances can be sort of hidden behind the fridge part.  I have a lot more space too to fit all my crap in LOL!!!

Some pics:

Looking from the lounge room

The elcheapo ebay dishwasher, new sink, new oven and cooktop and my devine benchtop

Oven, cooktop and rangehood

Microwave cabinet, pot drawers, appliances hidden

where you walk into the kitchen view

Overall it went fairly smoothly.  The guy who put the kitchen in was fantastic.  The electrician did a great job and was reliable but the plumber was not reliable at all.  It was meant to be finished yesterday, but the plumber didn't show up.  He was meant to be here between 10-11am, then from 11am-1pm.  At 2pm I called the Kitchen place up and they got here at about 2.30pm (finally).  The plumber did his bit but when I asked them about the ducting of the range hood they said they didn't do it (hmm, after everyone else said they would).  Still charged me $750 to do what they did, which personally I think is quite pricey for 2.5hrs work - oh well.

Some things are missing - soft closers for some of the doors and opening mechanism for the cupboard over the rangehood.  Also, there is a small chip in the poly of the microwave cabinet.  I hope it can be touched up, but if not then it will need to go back to be repainted and we can't tile until this is done because the whole cabinet needs to come out.  These things are to be expected though and they are fixing it all up.

My big problem at the moment is where does my bin go???  I couldn't fit it anywhere so it has to go under the bench where the sink is.  It's not looking good, fit wise to get anything in there.  I am searching for something suitable but I only have about 300mm wide to fit and the bin I was hoping to get is 350mm AGGGRRRRHHHH!!!!!!

I didn't go to work today as daycare said Michael had gastro yesterday afternoon, so he is excluded for a day.  He seems fine to me so I'm not sure what is going on.  I did some work from home during the day.  It worked out well since the plumbers didn't show yesterday, but I am very busy at work so actually would have preferred to be there to be honest.

We are going to look at tiles over the weekend to see what we like, should be fun.  We can give it a bit of WOW factor then, as it is a bit boring at the moment!!!