Kitchen chaos......

Our house is a dumping ground at the moment for all the bits and pieces we've been buying for the kitchen makeover....
It looks nothing like the first inspiration photo of a beautiful 'Plain English' kitchen which
looks very calming doesn't it?

I really like the colour scheme in the first photo, so we're going for something very similar-pale grey cabinets, and an antique linen white wall colour.
The grey granite worktops came back from the gravestone yard this week with their edges all polished and chamfered. The man also did the cut-outs for the sink and tap-holes, and only charged £160 in total which I thought was a bargain. It's definitely worth asking your local yard how much they charge if you fancy having granite worktops but don't want to pay thousands of pounds. We found all three lengths of granite on Ebay for just £250 but I think it was so cheap because we had to collect it ourselves in a van, which can put people off, as it is so heavy to transport. Also, we didn't get a template made out of wood first (which is the norm), instead the OH just drew a detailed plan with all the relevant measurements on it. He's going to fit some of them on Monday, so I hope he got his measurements right.....

We also got some new kitchen oak flooring, which is currently lying on our living room floor and will probably stay there for months! The OH hates the floor-tiles we have in our kitchen at the moment, so he's going to fit this instead. I bought all the cabinet knobs and cup handles we needed on Ebay, and couldn't believe how cheap they were. I couldn't resist trying two already on the green cabinet to see what they looked like... Of course now that means we'll have to swap all the brass cabinet hinges for chrome ones because they would look very strange otherwise (I can feel another stint with Plasticote chrome paintspray coming along)! See how one change leads to another change that you hadn't planned for...

The little prismatic lamp is going to be fitted above the kitchen sink hanging quite low, and now I'm thinking about changing the flex it comes with to something a bit nicer!! Maybe some of that silk corded flex? Stop me somebody....