Hmmm..... this is the best that I could do wrt scanning the floor plan for my kitchen.
As I am having Spotted Gum timber floors, (brown with rivers of grey) I had to look for stone and laminate colours that would complement the floors. The cabinetry, in the main part of the kitchen, is white 2 pak shaker-style, with rustic metal cup handles and knobs. There will be a free standing Ilve stove and canopy, in stainless steel, in the 'Nostalgie' style. The stone bench top will be Quantum Quartz 'New Mink':
(the sort of colour you have to look twice at... "is it grey? is it brown?".... perfect match with my floors). The island bench will feature open shelving at both ends, for cookbooks etc, and a single rectangular undermount sink.
I will have a lovely big walk-in pantry, housing the fridge, microwave, etc. It will have 2 sliding recessed, 8 light, French doors for the entry. The cabinetry in the pantry will be 'Stipple Seal' laminate:
a light brown/beige colour.......to carry the colour of the island bench tops and floors through. The pantry bench tops will be brushed stainless steel with matching open stainless steel, soft close drawers, under the bench, on either side of the fridge. The above-bench cabinetry, in the pantry, will be only half as deep as the under bench cupboards and will be all open shelving. I'll have to keep a rather tidy ship!.... maybe I will have to invest in some beautiful cannisters to enhance 'pantry viewing'.
Oh my.... my heart is beating faster... I have never had a 'pantry' as such... just a cupboard!
Hopefully it will be a lovely light and bright kitchen as I am having 2 large, French, 8 light, timber windows, on either side of the stove ... so no cupboards. The splash back will be a simple white gloss subway tile...... as per the kitchen in 'Somethings Gotta Give', of course! At the end of the kitchen bench I plan to have a cupboard for nice crockery etc. as per
my post a while ago........oh and if I can find lights similar to these 3 over the bench, then my kitchen will be complete. Hmmm, in Australia? We'll see!
Actually the kitchen pictured above is very similar to my plan, minus the stunning VJ roof!
I have cut costs by using laminate in the pantry and reducing the number of cupboards, in the kitchen area, that are made of the more expensive 2 pak. After all, how much storage does one need with a pantry that big?! We came in right on budget. Our cabinet makers are probably saying.."rats, we could have gotten more out of them if they are happy with that price."
The kitchen is part of an open plan family area... dining, lounge and media....... and it opens, through French doors, onto a terrace. Oh it all sounds so nice when I put it into words.... lets see if can pull this off!!!! .... I am only a scientist by training.... hmmm!
Our Frog Home
'Pocket', the Graceful Tree Frog ('Rocket' is in hiding...as always)
We're having a 'Frog Room'. My boys have 2 beloved little Graceful Tree Frogs that live in a little frog terrarium (10th birthday present).... complete with real moss, a waterfall, logs and lily pads! As these little blighters require live food (crickets, cockroaches, worms) you can imagine the pungent cadavers I find littered throughout the house, when the 'food' tends to escape during 'frog hug time'! I am NOT having these cadavers as part of my new home decor so we have allocated the frogs a little (2m x 2m) storage room at the bottom of the stairs, on our lowest level, in our new pad (frog terminology!). You have never seen such excited little boys... their own frog room!... not to mention an excited Mummy.... pleased that in approximately one year, I will have rid my boys play-room of frogs and 'such'!
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