Kitchen Complete

It's been a long time coming but the kitchen is finally complete, bar a couple of final touches.

We had a horrendous time working with the kitchen company Milligan & Jessop, totally disorganised, arguments with granite suppliers on-site, and a basic lack of courtesy. Their only saving grace was their kitchen fitter who did a good job despite the owners efforts to mess it up. Something that should have taken a week or so got strung out for many weeks and out of all the people we have dealt with so far they have been by far the worst....farcical at times!

Anyway pictures below of the finished kitchen, we are hoping to get doors on next as the house has been skimmed and painted, and we have fitted skirting and architrave as well as the door casings. Also found a nice tambour door that we will look at fitting to cover the door opening under the stairs where we have managed to squeeze the boiler, washing machine and dryer!

Update

The Kitchen is almost complete, but we have had a few issues here and there that I will get into when it's finished.

In the meantime we have plasterboarded around the circular window and the room has now been skimmed and painted. Sockets and four of the six lights have been fitted also.

The pre-skimmed round window

We have also started tiling in the en-suite. After preparing with concrete Hardiebacker boards and tanking out with a marmox shower tray and a tanking kit the tiles have started to go down.

We purchased 600 x 600 porcelain tiles from a company called Mandarin Stone and had them delivered on a pallet prior to Christmas.

The way the wet room shower trays work, means that the tiles must be cut to follow the contours of the tray to allow correct drainage. In order to do this we needed a large tile cutter and found one at B&Q that could cut up to 900mm long tiles so was ideal for the diagonal cuts we needed. The cutter was just over £70.00 but is far cheaper than other brands, and to be honest it is fantastic, giving a very straight cut with no scruffy edges.

The start of tiling the en-suite. If you look close you can see the diagonal cuts we needed to make.