A late post today been carbooting.
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JayCee the other day was talking/writing about their kitchen deteriorating after being installed twenty years ago.
This jogged my memory. We bought a kitchen for next door (two houses) from a posh house in Schull a few years ago for 350 Euros. We brought it home and painted it and my mate who is a carpenter adjusted the units for us.
In 2022 we decided our kitchen was looking shabby. In 2003 my dad had bought us a flat pack kitchen for our new build from Wickes in England and brought it over with them.
Number one saw a kitchen advertised on Done Deal in a posh Cork city suburb. So him and his mate went up and bought it and brought it home.
I was impressed on how solid it was and it was soon adjusted and installed and with some cladding and painting we ended up with a fab kitchen like this:
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Very nice. No need to spend thousands is there.
ReplyDeleteOur kitchen is still actually quite sound. We found the problem was a cracked waste pipe so now just need to make good again.
Not at all JayCee. My mum and dad always installed in us to buy from posh and snobby houses in rich areas. Same with the charity shops. Remember the ECCO shoes Altrincham flea market post? Places like Schull have people who buy houses for silly prices and gut them or apply for permission to knock and rebuild them and contractors will sell you a cheap kitchen going to landfill. Thanks for the blog inspiration JayCee.
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ReplyDeleteNice kitchen. I like the blue. And the pink. They really make it pop.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. We can see the blue sea from the kitchen window. I would have chose a red toaster but it was cheap in Lidl so it suffices.
ReplyDeleteIt is looking good Dave. I also like the blue. My kitchen is what was in the house when I bought it. The woman who owned the house years ago saw it recently and said her father put it in 1992. She was surprised I still had it. I said well it's a kitchen and it functions as such why would I want to change it just for the sake of it. It's got cupboards, worktop and shelves, what more do I want. Most of the handles have snapped off but I have worked out ways of opening the doors without handles and it doesn't really show anyway.
ReplyDeletePlease show us all a photo Rachel. I like your previous posts showing your Norfolk house.
DeleteThanks Dave. I will have a go tomorrow.
DeleteI look forward to seeing your kitchen and any other blog writers kitchens Rachel.
ReplyDeleteNever put one in, but I am living with one that was out in secondhand over twenty years ago...and needs replacing..
ReplyDeleteSounds like they got their money worth GZ. There is some good second hand salvage stuff out there. Much better than a lot of new furniture.
ReplyDeleteYou got a brilliant kitchen, we renewed ours when we moved in here 15 years ago, it's still looking good, and should last for years to come.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marlene. Ours cost hundreds of Euros and it will last a very long time.
ReplyDeleteThat's a welcoming, cheery kitchen. I'd have to put a lot of things away before I could take a photograph of ours. I've stopped 'tidying' in the hope that someone else might put stuff away. It's not working . . .
ReplyDeleteThanks Jabblog. We are always collecting and have a lot of dust collecting ornaments and copper and brass that needs polishing.
ReplyDeleteWe are preparing to put in a new to us kitchen right now! In fact, we are using a second hand cast iron bath tub, two ceiling fan light fixtures, beadboard purchased from a contractor. We saved us a boatload of money.
ReplyDeleteWell done Debby. It certainly pays to shop around and source second hand.
DeletePs: you don't have an oven?
ReplyDeleteThat's gas which is good for power outages and storms. We have an electric oven on the opppsite wall, a Rayburn oil range, microwave and another cooker next door.
ReplyDeleteYour kitchen looks great. I never understand why anyone needs to spend tens of thousands on a new one.
ReplyDeleteMy kitchen is tiny, but quite functional. I'm in the middle of decorating it at the moment.
Thanks Jules. I agree you don't need to spend thousands on a new kitchen. I don't like painting.
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