CUPBOARD LOVE

One of the few benefits of living in an old Victorian pile aside from all those quirky features such as architrave or wrought iron fireplaces is generously sized rooms with ample floor space and high ceilings. These wonderfully spacious rooms mean that with clever interior design you can achieve maximum storage and as everyone knows, you can never have enough cupboards to fill with clutter.

Tall wall hung cabinets of approx. 90 cm height mean we can capitalise on the extra high ceilings to get more bang out of our cupboard bucks. The first of the glass door display cabinets have been hung next to the window and by the look of things, the next batch have been marked out on the wall ready to hang tomorrow.

Glass door display cabinets fitted

Meanwhile on the other side of the room, base units have been assembled and positioned around the old fireplace.

Preparing units for the other side of the room

Perhaps one of the strangest things I’ve noticed about buying a kitchen is that although we purchased an oak look kitchen only some of the carcasses are actually finished in a wood coloured veneer. In a way, I feel this is a bit of an industry con as you spend all that cash only to end up with oak coloured units above the worktop and off-white coloured base units underneath when what you really expect to see is oak coloured units both inside and out.

All that glitters is not gold and all that is described as an ‘oak’ coloured kitchen is definitely not all oak although Wickes reassured me that once the doors and fascias were fitted, I’d probably not see any white bits. Little do they know that this is the type of thing guaranteed to give fusspots like me sleepless nights.