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NO NO NO!!!! I’m so fucking annoyed! Look at what Paul Smith has done to the gorgeous Cylindra range designed by Arne Jacobsen! And he was officially asked by Stelton to do so for their 50th anniversary! It’s like they have no idea of the subtlety and under played beauty of the design, the handles are black for a reason. They are not there to scream out at you “Look at me look at me, some designer has added colour and isn’t it oh so clever”….ummmm….no it’s not! I’m sure Arne Jacobsen is turning in his grave right now. Why mess with it? Leave it alone! I’m off to smash my head against a brick wall…



Our cooker hood that is. Yes it blew up on me one night when I was staggering to find the button to turn the lights on! After five months of trying to get our insurance company to cough up for a replacement it has finally arrived and very gorgeous it is too. So because the old one had to come down I decided to get rid of the stainless steel on the wall (it was always a hassle to clean it!) and the wall cupboards because they didn’t have a lot of stuff in them anyway. When I pulled the stainless steel off it did take a few chunks of plaster with it…ooops! The whole lot needed painting again and I decided to replace the wall cupboards with IKEA lack shelves. It now looks even bigger than it did before! The cooker hood is obviously not up yet but I need help with that and lets just say I won’t be asking David…





Here it is! A few things to finish off like the back of the unit where the stools are, the side panels on the wall cupboards and the bit between the dishwasher and washing machine. Oh and the whole lot needs repainting because it has all discoloured even though I only painted it last August!!! So I will have to paint the whole lot white again and I am considering painting the wall behind the hob a colour, I will post some mock-ups that I have done. I’m extremely pleased with it and the white glossiness of the units makes the kitchen look much bigger and brighter. I’m so glad that the devastation is over…






Well most of the kitchen is now done but it wasn’t the easiest of journeys! Above  are the larder units from start to finish. Trying to remove the old metal legs and replacing them with the plastic ones late at night was eventful to say the least. At one point I was half lying under them thinking that they would collapse on top of me! I was amazed when I cleared out the cupboards at how much was actually in there! Now we have loads of room and David is like someone possessed making sure that all the bottles of alcohol have their labels facing to the front! There was me thinking that it was me who was the one with an obsessive compulsive disorder…..