Our Kitchen Make Over: The modified doorway.

Our New Kitchen

The time has come to completely rework our kitchen. This will involve in this order, but that could change.

Rip up floor tiles.
Repair/replace the hole in the ceiling where the sky light was.
Remove the sliding door and frame.
Remove all of the existing benches, sinks, cupboards, stove and cook top.
Remove exhaust fan and replace that section of ceiling.
Get contractor to put in new gas pipe for the new gas hob.
Get contractor to put in new power point for the microwave.
Repaint all walls and ceilings.
Install new cupboards and benches.
Buy new stove, range-hood, dishwasher, microwave.
Get the custom bench top measured and fitted.
Install electrical appliances.
Rip up the tiles in the passage way, and pull up the carpets in the dining and family rooms.
Lay new floor tiles in all of those rooms.
Take care of anything else that pops up along the way.

Once that has been completed we will knock the bar down in the lounge room and convert the alcove behind the bar into a cupboard to store the DVD player and the DVD's we have.

Please check back every now and then to check our progress.

Andrew

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

The modified doorway.

We decided to do away with the archway that lead into the kitchen and convert it into a standard door way. This meant cutting a groove into the brick work and inserting a steel lintel into the brick. This lintel is used to stop the roof from falling in.
Once the lintel was in place I then cut away the bricks to leave the new doorway. I have to render the wall again and re-plaster where I have made the cuts. Now here are a few photos of the work so far.

The marked out wall.