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We got a date fixed with Mick the floor guy early on so we liaised with our builder the date when this would be possible (i.e we needed to make sure the wooden floor was laid after the tiled floor – to be matched up, but before the skirting boards). Planning-wise, we made sure we bought the kitchen early enough to be delivered within our timeline, although it ended up being delayed (again: COVID, couldn’t be helped) and the builders had to leave and come back to fit it.
#Osmos kitchen windows#
Overall, the building work took around 5 months – it was supposed to be finished in three but COVID obviously prolonged everything (from having to pause the works to having to wait for supplies – the great plaster shortage of 2020!), and then with the final work such as painting being done by us and having to wait for a few more deliveries and the windows and door(!) it has been 7 months in total. And even when they took away the sink, they plumbed us in a dishwasher and washing machine in the side alley with a cover so we could go round at night! So there were only really a few weeks where we had to wash up everything in the bath upstairs…! They added a temporary door for us as they worked outside… Thankfully, they knocked through in stages, so they left us with a working sink and kitchen for as long as possible, doing all the outside work first. We planned the kitchen to be fitted into the chimney breast so we gained that space, but squared it off as the arch became tricky (we’d already lost one side of it to the downstairs toilet).
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Sadly we had no outside space during lockdown!Įverything was basically gutted and stripped back to the brickwork, the fireplace was removed (don’t worry, we kept it!) and the chimney breast filled to where the cupboards would sit. We added a small downstairs toilet and then went out roughly 2 metres. We didn’t get an architect, just someone to draw plans as we couldn’t afford a side return (the quotes were double the cost of what we did) and we matched the neighbour’s house so it wasn’t a crazy new floorplan. This was originally the dining room, so there was no original kitchen here but it was the best sized room and backed onto the garden so made sense to us. Where to start…? I suppose the extension, we decided to extend and gain some extra room so we could have some living space as well as the kitchen. But overall, it worked fine and it’s over now…! We haven’t been in the room much since the kitchen has been renovated – bad memories! And we couldn’t just ‘pop’ in to see developments and ask questions, instead we would go round at night after putting Peggy to bed, and then email across questions and order fittings that were needed as and when. It did make it tricky, for instance: we lived, worked, cooked, ate and looked after our toddler (whose nursery was closed) for a good few months in one room with banging and drilling and dust constantly in the background. This room is at the back of the house so, albeit with a 6 week lockdown break, the builders were able to block off the back and get to work from the garden without access to the house. In fact, by leaving this room until last, it made it easier to do when we got round to it. We painted it, cleaned it and piled a load of old and borrowed furniture in here so it was useable, and our plumber (who was installing radiators when we first moved in) set us up with a temporary sink.
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Why didn’t we do it first? Budget…we knew we wanted to go out and create a kitchen/diner and as we didn’t have the savings to do it (we remortgaged to do the work), we focused on smaller, more affordable, projects first. The kitchen, for us, has always been the biggest and most important project for us (although the hall and bedroom ended up being far more disruptive in the end).
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#Osmos kitchen update#
This will be the final instalment of the renovation update for a while! Although there is a LOT to be done to the outside of the house (it still looks like we just moved in – overgrown, parts have fallen off, the roof needs replacing etc), the inside is pretty much done and we’re going to slow down, relax and enjoy it for a while….! This post may contain some affiliate links