Weekend jobs

New improved window sill with lambs tongue frame

New lambs tongue skirting vs the old quad

This weekend Jason is planning to replace the door frames and skirting boards in the kitchen. He did an early morning raid to Finlayson's to buy the joinery on the way to work this morning. He was probably an unusual sight at 7am in his business suit.

There is only quad as skirting in the kitchen. Jason wants to replace all of it in the kitchen with the lambs tongue profile, similar to what is in the main living area of the house. The door frames in the kitchen will also be replaced with the lambs tongue profile. Currently it is colonial style which is inconsistent to all the other parts of the house.

Replacing them will mean an easier paint job. It won't be a startling change but it is the little things which you don't notice that complete a room.

Kitchen nirvana

Island bench with newly installed pendant lights

View of inside from kitchen sink window
Working tap and sink

Super monster deluxe cooker

The plumber arrived!

We are truly eating again. I will be popping out to the butcher's for my carnivorous family. Mmm...home-cooked meals again!

There are still more things to be completed such as the splash backs, servery, drawer adjustments and floating shelves. Despite this, I am experiencing kitchen nirvana.

A work in progress

The waterless sink

island bench with badly flaking paint on back wall

view of kitchen from back deck doors

As you can see, the kitchen is very slowly coming together. The granite was put in a few days ago and we are still living with the fine stone dust which was left behind in the stone mason's wake. It does look terrific though.

Mr Rangehood installer also came to do his end of the bargain, but the most important person of all is yet to arrive - The Plumber. Without him we are waterless and gasless and it will mean another weekend of microwaved and BBQed meals. Won't he be a sight for sore eyes and hungry tummies!

Sidetracked

Empty sunroom. Will have a more recent photo soon.

I have been looking for a sideboard for our sunroom. The dining room table lives there and I’d love to have an area to store my napery, placemats and serving ware. I had a squiz at a vintage Fler sideboard in Vinyl Frontier but was distracted by these two Danish Quality Furniture (DQF) Viking chairs.

DQF was a Brisbane maker which used to make Danish style furniture in the 60s and 70s. These chairs date from the early 70s.

“Didn’t you go out to buy the sideboard?” Jason asked, as I pulled up into the driveway with the chairs in the back of the car.

The sideboard can wait until there are more dollars in the bank account...

DQF viking chairs in the sunroom

I love eBay

My little old cooker escaped the scrap heap.

Here I was ready to put the poor old thing out onto the footpath. It was in reasonable condition and worked fine, but since we were renovating the kitchen with new appliances, it was no longer needed. I also wanted a super deluxe monster cooker.

A change of heart made me think that perhaps I could sell it on eBay and get a couple dollars. Again, my expectations were very low – I just wanted an easy way to get rid of it while giving it a second life somewhere else.

Who would have thought it was a highly sought-after cooker? Twenty-one bids and a few hundred dollars later, it was sold!

Now, how cool is that?