I have various photos from the last few weeks that I would like to post in my blogger diary format.
It will all have to wait for TIME.
Currently, it is about eleven p.m.
I can't believe that the year has reached midsummer, with birthday imminent, with weather as superb an ideal as I would wish, except too humid at ten this evening. PLUS today has been a Sunday, a Patrimoine de Pays et Moulins weekend and also Journee de Musique day / weekend when amateur musicians can play anywhere and not be made to move on or be quiet. Mostly, it is organised music for the general public. Last night I did go out to listen to Bal Musette but with no one to dance with I reluctantly left a style of music I enjoy.
I am glad we went out at about 7 in the evening. After he had said I looked as if I was going out, which at the time was not true, I answered, "Nope, I was just getting dressed for the evening in general as I was tired of work clothes" .... But after that statement, I thought "sod it", (please excuse me getting grounded!) and offered to take HIM out for a treat, get a change of view, whilst making myself a G'nT.... and so, it was so ...... that we went to the English tea shop and caught the end of a three hour session of solo sax jazz......which only a few minutes before did I consult the oracle of all global and public knowledge (providing that someone has posted).
Nice it was to feel the cool lanes between old stones, feel the river breeze and special ions, see what has changed since I wandered that way about a week ago. Every time I stand on the bridge I tell myself that I must come more frequently!
He AND I worked since about 8h30 a.m. ...( me without breakfast!!!), until about 4pm when he stopped. I carried on to get those tiles off the plasterboard. Sheer Pleasure!
Pending an arrival of an electrician (..... I feel that suitable heraldic music should be played if ever he does arrive!..... ) my friend said we should completely evacuate the kitchen ... today it was deconstructed MORE, but still there exists the sink, the fridge, the freezer and oven which could all be sent elsewhere if only there was space! Must use more energies tomorrow to do so!
I don't think the electrician WILL arrive, but at least we are prepped and ready (sort of ... with this linear arrangement of kitchen I cannot quite cope with the idea that the sink is against a wall with my back to a window, I always feel uncomfortable. Even though HE is attempting to persuade me that a mirror on that wall would enable me to watch the garden and those who are seated, I still feel summat is wrong with the difficult to do other with'' plan.
I am trying to think laterally, but the space of 3.6m long and 1.20 max is tricky to include jutting out u shape bits or a small work island. There are four doors and a window!!!!!!! I am tempted to out the kitchen upstairs in the newly roofed grenier at this stage but the next part of the renovation story is that I am concerned about the floor in the grenier affecting the ceiling of the kitchen and the other two rooms. I thought the distance was greater than what it is!
More later!
I have often detested my kitchen space... and now it is not a kitchen and the feelings of being overwhelmed and indecisive continue. Taking the guts out of the kitchen has though convinced me to cover the retro orange rectangulay floor tiles positioned in 1985.
It looks like progress is being made. If I remember rightly isn't the window too low to have the sink near the window?
ReplyDeleteThis is a problem but in the West Country I saw a house where they had done so, putting down a diagonal wall to the lowest part of the window. It would be a dust trap!
ReplyDeleteI don't mind if the sink area faces at a right angle to the rear wall. Maybe the thought of a kitchen plan is worse than Reality but I do keep modelling cooking and washing up! It will be a mocking up week... not mopping up!