What’s cooking?

Well, nothing just yet, but at least I’ve now got a useable kitchen in which I can cook if I want to. And do washing up and store food and other things, in fact all the things that you associate with that room in the house that are so difficult to do in the confines of a caravan. But first I had to top-coat the ceiling and the walls that were to be painted. The tiling on the wall areas above the worktop can come later and don’t need to stop the kitchen being fully useable in the meantime.

I used the high pressure spray when I undercoated the walls and ceiling previously but as the area being top-coated was far smaller I thought that it wouldn’t justify the time and effort involved in cleaning the spray machine when the job was completed and opted instead to go for a traditional roller. But I decided to mask the room up anyway as then I wouldn’t have to worry about paint splashes and damaging any of the new appliances and kitchen furniture that I’d so painstakingly installed.

Compared to spraying, the effort involved in roller painting the kitchen was a lot greater but cleaning up afterwards was easier and far less time-consuming. I also think that the finish in the kitchen is far better than in the living room, but I’m sur that that’s just down to my inexperience with the spray gun. Here’s how the kitchen came out.

Now that there’s a useable kitchen and bathroom and a bed, I could theoretically move out of the caravan and into the house. I do intend to do so, but not quite yet. Aside from the whole place needing a clean right through and the electrical bugs sorted, I need some extra storage space, for clothes for starters. I’ve ordered one of those fabric wardrobes that should do the job nicely and need to decide what else I need before I make the move. But it can’t come soon enough, let me tell you!