The Kitchen being installed

Today we managed to visit when the kitchen was being assembled and installed and took some pictures. The large open cabinet space in the center will later house the fridge and the freezer.

The cabinet to the left of that will have frosted glass doors, with interior spotlights. The cabinets above the windows will have doors that fold open upwards, with glass windows. The kitchen sink will be installed in front of the windows.

(As you can see, I’ve blurred Dan the Builder & Son, only because I think it’s unfair to publish pictures of other people online without asking permissions first. They didn’t ask to be on these pictures.)

The cube in the middle is the kitchen isle, where we have installed an electric outlet, but no water or anything else. It’s storage space, and somewhere to work when preparing meals, and is also designed to have room for two to be able to sit down for breakfast along one side (facing the windows). The other sides of the isle won’t have enough leg room, and will be less useful to sit by.

The open spaces below will house a microwave and a oven. I’ve realized that I have no clue if the microwave we’ve ordered is the kind that beeps a lot. Where I’m currently contracting there are two different microwaves; one older with a “wind up” timer, that simply makes a “pling” when done, and another newfangled digital one that beeps annoyingly for every single press on its many buttons, so it beeps at least four, five times when setting it up, and again when it’s finished. So the newer one manages to be more annoying, complicated and time consuming all at the same time.

Let’s hope our new one is not the annoying kind.

The dishwasher will be in the empty cupboard area right behind the kitchen isle. Fridge, freezer, dishwasher, oven and microwave will all be shining black, by the way. We decided we were really tired of all white machines. I’m not sure about the English term, but in Swedish it’s so ingrained they are supposed to be white that they are even collectively known as “whiteware”.

Regarding the splash of red color above, I have no idea why the painters put it there, really. It’s the color for our clothes cabinet. I can only assume they for some reason tried it somewhere where it would get tiled over later. The stove will be placed between the red color and the oven.

In this case the kitchen will be tiled with light gray glass mosaic, placed where the white paint does not cover, so approximately from the windows to the oven, halfway up the wall.

Since the mosaic is translucent, I assume they will paint some basic white primer wherever the mosaic will go.

Caution, Wet Paint

Now, most of the painting in the house is finished. Most of it is white, but not quite (!) since there’s a very slight note of grey in it.

The rest of the house is mostly white as well, with the exception of the bathrooms (of which you’ve seen one), the kitchen (oak/gray/black), a single wall in our bedroom (light blue) and our entire clothes cabinet (dark red), all of which I’m sure we will be showing you in some later posts.

Not all of it is finished. Especially not the kitchen, which have not yet even begun to arrive. Only the ceramic floors are done, the wooden floors for the rest of the house have arrived, but is still in boxes until all of the painting is done.

The living room area

Here are a few pictures of the living/dining room area. The round window still looks great. But it will be a challenge to put anything decorative in the window. Perhaps something hanging?

The beams will be painted in an oak finish (not yet done in this picture) matching the rest of the woodwork in the house.

Still no stairway. I’m really curious on how that will look when installed.

Wanna go Upstairs?

Bastian fearlessly climbed the ladder to check out his room. I guess it’s plain which one is his, and which one belongs to Beatrice?

And, yes, since you asked, we actually do try to encourage gender equality/neutrality, but it (obviously) takes other forms than forcing the kids to have yellow and green rooms. Their current room (which they share) is incidentally painted purple. But that was done when they were much too young to argue :-)

Storage space

I still haven't had a chance to see what became of the attic. I wonder how much usable space there is left? When moving in, we will be in sore need of storage space, since we put off building a garage for now.

Most likely we need to quickly build at least a garden shed for the stuff that we don’t want to keep in the house, such as the lawnmower :-).

This little piggy went to market

Anyone in the market for an apartment?

http://www.hemnet.se/beskrivning/hemnet/430429

It looks fairly attractive, if I may say so. And I have it from reliable sources that it is currently owned by a little old lady who only uses it on Sundays anyway, so it’s hardly even been lived in. And so incredibly cheap. (The apartment, not the lady).

I foresee the huddled masses gaping in awe at the public display, Sunday the 24th of May, fighting to get inside.

The Guest Toilet

So, as we said in an earlier post, the house is being tiled, floored and painted, and have been for two weeks. This is a few pictures of the guest toilet (minus the toilet and sink).

We have dark grey ceramic floor tiles, with dark mortar instead of white, making the grooves between tiles less visible. We put the same kind of tile in the laundry room as well.

In the entrance hall and kitchen we have the same kind of tile, only with larger sized tiles.

I hope you appreciate the flower tiles we put in among the white ones. (You, after all, will be the ones utilizing this room, won’t you?). Here is a closer look at one of them.

If you look closely at the area where the light is reflected, you might be able to see that the white tiles aren’t entirely plain, they have a subtle floral pattern imprinted. I’ve tweaked the coloring of the image a bit to make it more visible.

We also put a column of red mosaic where the sink will be.

What kind of mirror and/or light we will put above the to-be-installed sink is one of the few details we haven’t decided on yet.

The Front Door

Finally the front door have been installed. Initially the wrong type of door was delivered, but now we’ve got the correct one!

The sidelight does let in a lot of light, which is nice. The less electrical lighting the better…

The wood details are nice, too.

A lot of work has also been done with painting, flooring, and tiling the house, but that’s for another post.