Dream Kitchen - Finishing touches

The kitchen is now finished, more or less. We found some tiles we liked after looking everywhere for green tiles, we found some nice grey ones in Leroy Merlin at Bordeaux ( as a bloke, I know nothing about colours, so it was down to Tina).

With all the tile factories of Spain and Italy so close across the border, we where a bit surprised when the ones we bought were by a British company. We think that they match the cooker and the units quite well.

The lights above the island unit where a bit of a pain to fit, as we had lost the instructions, but we managed to work it all out in the end. It took us all day, with the worst bit trying to fix the transformer to the ceiling and the wooden ceiling turning out not to be flat!.

The walk in larder is now all kitted out as well. Tina has been through all of the boxes in the barn and found all sorts of bits and pieces that no kitchen should be without ( although we did alright for two years while the stuff was in boxes) and we still have some space left in the new units.

The cooker cable is now well camouflaged in a false beam, conjured up by my friend Peter, who is very handy with wood. He knocked it all up in an hour, when it would have taken me a day at least.

The utility room has been tiled as well, so both rooms are now more or less finished.

We are still debating whether or not to try and hide to extractor fan duct under some wood, or to leave it as some sort of post modern industrial minimalist statement. Who knows ?