All done!

Well, for now anyway, and I’ll only make changes if I spot any problems or come up with any more ideas. As I suspected, the problem was planning a layout that gave me everything that I needed in what I think is a rather compact kitchen space. Experience has shown me that you must have as much worktop space as possible and that you can never have too much storage space, so my aim was to maximise both while not making the kitchen cramped and still having enough space for a small table and chairs. I think that I’ve managed to do it, as the following pics show.

I’ve kept a small fridge and the dishwasher in the kitchen, the latter close by the sink, which will facilitate connecting it up. I’ve had to relegate the freezer to the ‘cellier’ though, but that’s not a big problem because you’re not accessing it all the time and it will only be across the hall anyway. I may look at the layout again and make the small fridge in the corner into a tall fridge/freezer at the expense of losing some worktop space and a wall cupboard, although I’d be reluctant to lose the latter, but I’ll have to do that later and it won’t require any changes to be made to the house plan anyway. I am pleased with how quite by chance the sink has come out dead in front of the window, which will be a huge improvement on my current house, which, typically for old French country houses, has the sink facing a blank wall.

So that’s it for now. I’ve got a meeting with the house builder this afternoon, which I’m looking forward to. I’ve got a lot of questions to ask 😉