Kitting out the kitchen

With the door sill finished and in place, it's taken me a couple of days to build a brand new door frame and put in place a temporary door - the one from the kitchen. It's been very difficult and I've decided it's something I'm not very good at. Perhaps some practise is needed, but as I've haven't got any more doorways to build, I'm not going to know. It didn't help that (as with most of the house) nothing is square, nor are standard measurements used - inches or centimetres. A day or two of frustration however means that the doorway is complete, and once we have a period door to match, we'll be able to set that part right.

In the mean time, I've put the studding in the old doorway, and secured a piece of drywall inside. The wall inside the office doesn't appear to be parallel to the wall in the kitchen. To complicate things a little, the wall between the office and the kitchen still has the old wooden shingles and the wall boards on the studs. I've screwed the piece of gyprock in place in the office. The electricians haven't quite finished in the kitchen, so although I've cut the gyprock for the kitchen side of the doorway, just not screwed it in place just yet.



In the meantime, my wife has spent quite some time putting new trim around the small window in the kitchen.

The whole process of putting the kitchen in has been slowed down significantly by removing the door. We've put in the order for the additional wall units, and put in the final order for the counter top which should arrive before the new year. It seems companies round here take a rather extended Christmas break, so this was the last opportunity to get the counter before early January. We've also bought a small fridge to go under the counter, and we've ordered a sink to go under the small window. The hot and cold water shouldn't be an issue, as we can take the feeds from the water heater we're going to move. I'll put the pipes in before the water heater's ready to move. All we need is a waste pipe fitting - we'll be getting a plumber in for that bit!

We've removed the the plaster around the stairwell, which was flaking off the wall all too easily - probably got very wet at some time. Once the gyprock is in place, we'll put up the plaster (also known as drywall compound) on the seams, and over the screw holes.