Home DIY

Yep. We put a new narrow worktop/shelf in, it’s already half full..,

Same here. I worked in commercial kitchens before/during Uni. Clutter got you a bollocking. Now my wife seems to think that any spare space on a worktop needs filling with random stuff that doesn't even belong in the kitchen. (It's more a symptom of there being not enough storage in the flat, and too much stuff in general.)

Doesn't help that the kitchen was designed by a fucking idiot, for example, out of all of the cupboards there is just a small single drawer, and we lack the nominal #40k to sort it out properly.

That's reassuring. Thanks!

My wife has a wood cabin office. It has a composting toilet. There is a water feed to the office. Which froze and burst in the cold weather. I know fuck all about plumbing apart from a few John Guest fittings when I installed my coffee machine. But I have replaced the broken stop cock and now installed a sink and water to it. Just waiting for the waste pipes to arrive.

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I've installed a couple of things like this in recent years:

But built into runs of full height cupboards. The doors open to 90 degrees then can be pushed back into the cupboard so that they sit slightly proud of the unit when you've finished using the stuff you close the doors and regain the minimalist look of your kitchen.

I’m having a concrete slab laid next weekend. It’s 4.5m x 2.2m

Labour is £750 and includes the shuttering wood.

Materials are another £300.

It’s not cheap getting concrete down.

My 9'x7' slab I got about 5 years ago was £600 all in, so that doesn't sound too bad.

My coffee maker sits on it's own shelf, but our kitchen is so small that the rice cooker, coffee grinder and Vitamix still take up countertop space.

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I had loads of quotes from people that will come and do the whole thing and they were all £1500+

What I'm doing now is using a landscape gardener to do the labouring (he's done loads before) and organising all the other shit myself.

No! Why? Will it be ok if the builders do it when building a new wall?

I'm sure you've done a better job of vetting/knowing your shit than I did, but just want to say you can't have too many stakes to support the shuttering. Not fun cutting bulged concrete to be straight straight.

Would love one of these, sadly no space to fit one in anywhere currently.

My kettle is on the hob, my toaster is the oven grill, coffee machine is a v60 tucked in a drawer

Got any more photos? Looks great.

Not fun cutting bulged concrete to be straight straight.

Concrete saw go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Cheers

Dunno if it's been said, but much bigger than a mouse.

Ok, it was quite fun actually.

Here's a couple of other points of view.
Thanks!

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that's really lovely... do you find grease+dust an issue with open storage?
(I find it interesting how different kitchens in other countries feel, more than other rooms.)

Thank you, with the dust I try not to look too closely.
We do very little heavy duty frying so there's virtually no build up over time except for the filter on the circulating fan. This 'reno' is approximately 5 years old.

I find it interesting how different kitchens in other countries feel, more than other rooms

Believe me, none of our friends' kitchens look like ours! They're almost all a lot bigger with enclosed storage and a preponderance of melamine. And they all have built in dishwashers.

Speaking of open storage, currently bodging IKEA wardrobes carcasses into a temporary kitchen until I can do it properly. The space was 110cm wide so ended up with a 1m cupboard and another little bodge for the chopping boards to fit the 10cm gap. Quite liking the mesh baskets though

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Absolutely love it!