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I’d just finished making another curtain. And now they’re going to take a jackhammer to the floor directly behind it. The door into the lobby leads straight off the kitchen. It makes it difficult to get the room to feel cosy at night. So I decided to remedy the problem by covering it up, purchasing more of the fabric I'd used for roman blinds. The curtain needed to be contemporary and minimal if it was going to fit in so I used rivets to hold the simple pleats in place. It’s not as easy as it looks. The bruised fingertips prove it, but I think it does the job. 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Nor a desert seen from the air. Blistering paint. In the rush to get the kitchen done before Christmas we’d been left with no option but to paint damp plaster. There's one particular place where it still isn't dry. Indeed, it seems to be getting worse. And so the builder is back, rooting around in a rainwater gully that runs along the outside of the kitchen wall. There is much tut-tutting and scratching of heads but the diagnosis is really quite simple. Water left to pool in the gully is seeping up the wall. The solution, however, isn’t simple at all. They need to create a better ‘fall’ to allow the water to drain properly and then install a new storm drain to carry it all away. But there’s a rub. There’s only one direction the proposed pipework can run. It'll mean digging a trench right through the back lobby that lies beyond the kitchen door. Down through the concrete floor. Oh good. The jackhammer returns. 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Placing the hob, working area and sink on an island means I’m always facing into the centre of the room. I can knock up a stir fry and watch TV at the same time, or hold a conversation with Mike, ideally with a glass close by! Before There was no space for the farmhouse table that I would love so we opted for a modern café style table for everyday meals. When the dining room is sorted out (ho ho), we can entertain in there. I started out looking at flat pack cabinets but given the small size of the room, and the particular configuration I was after, I couldn’t make it work. But getting the cabinets made to fit has led to economies elsewhere. We used our existing washing machine and dishwasher and just built a cupboard around them. They are hidden away from view to the left of the café table. The end wall of units was tailored to incorporate our existing fridge freezer too. I've committed two cardinal sins. Although we did a lot of the work ourselves, and got some great deals, we did spend more than originally intended. Between the kitchen and the water treatment plant the renovation budget is now pretty well used up and there’s still the rest of the house to do. It will be even more a case of DIY from now on. The other sin is in designing the kitchen in a style that is perhaps very particular to me. This will not be our ‘forever’ home, although hopefully we will be in it for a good few years yet. But I can’t envisage climbing 84 steps to get the post everyday when I’m 89, as our predecessor did! Before Well, I think I’m now ready to wind down for Christmas. To put my feet up in the sitting room and relax. Ummm... 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