I have had an email from someone who has been following our kitchen orangery extension project on this blog asking how progress is going and why I have not posted about in a while. They were actually asking in a round about way, if we had finished it yet! The answer to that is no …
Tag Archive: kitchen
Mar
15
Second Kitchen Fitted In Less Than A Month
This weekend I have fitted the second kitchen this month! The first at our home in our kitchen orangery extension, and the second in one of our other properties that we are getting ready for sale. We were looking for a higher end ‘off the shelf’ kitchen for this property, clean, stylish and functional. We …
Feb
28
Orangery Extension Part 31: Fitting The Kitchen
We have spent the last two weekends fitting the kitchen in our kitchen orangery extension. We had a group of family and friends round last weekend to help get the first coats of paint on the walls and ceiling, get the sockets cut out of the plasterboard and the back boxes fitted. I spent about …
Feb
27
How To Install Under Floor Heating – Ufh
If you have read the last few posts on this blog you will have seen that we have just installed hot water under floor heating in our new orangery kitchen extension. Several people have asked for e to post a little bit about how we went about this. No I am not the expert on …
Feb
01
Underfloor Heating Install Finished
We managed to get the under floor heating finished this weekend and the floor laid. A really good job, and fairly straight forward to do if not a little fiddly. The main process was one of planning what we wanted under the floors, in terms of electrics, media cables, water supplies and drainage from the …
Feb
01
Orangery Is Finished… According To My 2 Year Old Daughter
Yesterday evening, Cheryl and Eva picked me up on my way home from work as I needed to collect my car from its service. Eva was in one of her talkative moods, after telling me all the different cars mummy has had, I asked her what she has been doing. To my surprise she said …
Nov
29
Orangery Extension Part 18: Plasterboard And Insulation
This weekend we have moved the Kitchen Orangery Extension on another leap forward. We have plaster boarded the whole of the ceiling out, insulated the party wall and got all the plaster boarding on that wall that we can do without the dot and dab. I could not complete this due to a delay in …
Nov
23
Satellite Has Arrived
The Satellite that I ordered yesterday has arrived. It gives me a little puzzle to sort out, how it all goes together and where best to hang it on the house. I anticipate it going on the drive wall above the Orangery. This will allow me to point it in the correct direction, it will …











