Almost ten years on, we finally had enough of our rubbish kitchen, so ripped it out and started over. "The sink needs to be moved", I insisted. "I want an island bench and it only has to shift a metre or so, how much can it possibly cost?"
Apart from the cost, I do not recommend having a bloke with a concrete saw and a jackhammer working on your slab inside your house. The dust was phenomenal and every day after I cleaned it up, it just kept resettling.
We'd hoped we could re-lay our floorboards with some extras we had, but it turned out we only had a few boards and the angles in the old kitchen meant that a huge number of the existing ones were unusable, so the flooring through the kitchen, dining, family room and two large hallways had to be replaced. 100 square metres. Ka-CHING! That was an extra $13,000 we didn't expect, but hey, at least the new oak flooring is lovely.
Anyway, fast-forward a few weeks and it was worth all the pain. There's still a little painting to finish off, but I'll get to that eventually. It's a pleasure to cook in this kitchen and there's so much storage, we've yet to fill it up. Cheers to the Kitchen Design Centre, who designed and project managed the whole thing, worked with our flooring supplier, and made our lives much easier.
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