Kitchen

Church Field Home

Lounge

In June 2021, as we moved in, the kitchen was not fit to be used. It had been a high quality install back in the day but now it took us a week for both of us to just clean it after it had been cleared. I asked them to take the double oven away with them as well and I bought a small single oven to make-do until the kitchen is renovated. This is actually quite funny as I was going to buy a small counter top oven for about £150 when I spotted this basic oven for £180 and thought I may as well have a full size one for just £30 more. In fact it is a perfectly good oven and does everything we need it to do so it is staying.

Once we had cleaned the kitchen we painted the doors a dark blue, over the original pale blue as a stopgap and to make it look fresh again. I lined every cupboard and drawer with a material from Dunelm, used for kitchen tablecloths etc, which I cut to size and stuck down with double-sided tape. We painted the walls and ceiling white and we also needed to raise the worktop as, for some reason, it was very low and couldn't get anything underneath it. There was also a hole in the wall which Ray repaired and the flooring is very bouncy and will be replaced when the kitchen is stripped out in April 2024.

We found a fridge for sale to replace the one that was broken in the kitchen when we bought it. I found it on Facebook Marketplace for £50 and the seller said that we had to pick it up and they lived in a really remote area, they were not going to deliver it. They actually live in the exact same postcode as we do and there are only 13 homes in that postcode so that was really lucky!

The kitchen is to be extended, a rooflight put in and sliding glass doors put across the wall facing The Kyles. We will have a new kitchen and peninsula with the kitchen table brought in from where it is in the lounge at the moment to be put in its proper place. Can't wait.

Hole in the wall

Nope, not touching it

Old look in pale blue

Cleaned out cupboards

Lined shelves

Painted doors and drawers

New oven fitted into space

New look in dark blue

Week beginning 14 Oct: Finalised the kitchen layout this week, to be delivered after Christmas, once the extension has been built and the lovely big window put on the front of it. Computer generated images with huge artistic license on the scenes through the windows.

TO BE: West wall, church end

TO BE: East wall, Rothesay end

TO BE: South aspect, towards the Kyles of Bute

TO BE: North aspect, towards the internal hallway !!!!

Week beginning 4th Nov 2024: The kitchen is coming apart as Sandy is due to move into there very soon. Christmas cake made before I lose everything and revert to the campervan. Cupboards are being emptied and contents put into boxes to be hidden in various corners of the house. Empty cupboards are then being removed to the garage by Ray as he wants them for 'stuff' in the garage or shed!

Christmas cake made this week

Some cupboards removed from the sink end of the kitchen

Emptying cupboards from the lounge end of the kitchen

And the cupboards now removed too!

18 Feb 2025: Sandy is starting the kitchen remodelling. The original kitchen stripped out and put on the bonfire and the flooring removed to discover more hidden delights. We knew the floor needed something doing to it as it bounced when walked over but I think Sandy was horrified by what he did find when he took it all apart.

18th Feb - as was with some cupboards removed by Ray

19 Feb - flooring inspection

Chipboard under lino

19 Feb - end of day and the kitchen is stripped

Found some wonky beams

Almost stripped bare

Rab looking at what groundworks he needs to do in front of the kitchen window

Neil taking out the soil he has removed from under the kitchen in order to get concrete pads in for the steel support

Neil, hand digging the soil out from under the kitchen floor

Viewing window for us from the hallway into the kitchen and extension area

Groundworks and footings for the kitchen extension

Temporarily blocked front of the kitchen for security

Looking from the road, the blocked kitchen frontage and the blocked porch with sliding chipboard door for convenience

Looking from the front of the house through to the viewing window in the hallway

The framework for the kitchen extension floor

Sandy constructing the extension flooring

Steels in and now the beams to be lifted into place

Walls going up for the kitchen extension

Polythene to keep the weather out of the old kitchen whilst extension is being built

Insulation onto the walls and roof struts being put on

Roofing material being laid out to get the creases out of it before being fixed down

Sandy's special birthday! Our friend and neighbour Joan found a cake and everyone celebrated his 50th!

Scaffolding being erected around the skeleton of the extension so that the roof could be constructed

The hole in the roof of the kitchen extension, made for the lantern roof that we decided against to try and reduce costs

Roof in place and a grand view from the front opening of the kitchen extension

Tea break

Roof and guttering on, roughcast in place, windows in and scaffolding down

Plasterboarded out and clearing up ging on with kitchen design drawings on the wall

Plastering complete and waiting for it to dry

Polythene flooring so that the plasterer didn't leave an awful mess to be cleared up

A couple of coats of white emulsion spread on every surface except the floor

Kitchen units arrived from Germany and waiting to be fitted

Kitchen fitting by Neil, Sandy and Robert the electrician

Getting there! Amazing how much was done in just one day

Tools everywhere but the kitchen is really coming together now

Infrared foil heating being installed by Robert

BEFORE

Looking towards our neighbours

Towards the Kyles

Looking towards the front of the church

Looking towards the lounge/side of the church

AFTER

Same view as above

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