A new oven & sanding floors

It has been such a long time since my last post, there is so much to catch up on. Where to begin... How about June...!

So, we removed the old oven and replaced it with a freestanding cooker. The new cooker is incredible, we are thrilled with it. It actually has 3 ovens and 5 x gas burners. It is a Belling from the UK and I cannot fault it. There have been a few hiccups due to operator error but nothing to do with the actual unit. Plus it is black and very sexy!

Removing the cupboards to make room for the new cooker was like peeling back layers of an onion with old wallpaper and remnants from old tiling still obvious on the walls. We lined the back wall with bead board for now but we will be doing a tiled splashback when we put in the new kitchen.

When we re-shuffled the kitchen layout, we created a larger space for a fridge and we really needed a double door fridge. Some lovely folk who were moving to Canada (hi Ginnie!) kindly sold us their fridge before they skipped the country, and we were fortunate enough to make friends with them through the transaction. We were then lucky enough to make friends with the lovely people who bought our old fridge, which is kind of random but excellent at the same time!

Here is us installing the new fridge:

Then the next step was to sand the floors. I had heard it was a terrible job and yes, it was messy but it wasn't as bad as I had expected.

First we sanded upstairs, where we have been working with the chip-board to turn it in to faux floorboards:

 Then we did downstairs:

More updates in the next post!