Taking the plunge

 A very big plunge for us. Outside of buying a house and having children I don't think we have ever made such a big commitment - we are buying a new kitchen. And we are buying it on finance, something we would normally do anything to avoid. But it will take yonks to save up to buy a new one outright and I'm fed up of our broken old kitchen. 

Nothing is confirmed yet. We have a man coming to do a survey on Wednesday who I am fully expecting to suck his teeth and explain to me why I can't have anything that I want. I am also fully expecting our 140 year old house to have more than one issue that makes fitting a new kitchen more complicated than is ideal. I am fully expecting the cost we have been quoted to be very conservative. But nonetheless I am super excited at the thought that in just a few months we might have a totally different kitchen. It's practically our living space, as it is a kitchen/diner, and we spend more time in there than in any other room. The kitchen that is in there at the minute is at least from the 80s if not older, and has soooo many problems with it, so many parts of it that at best are not ideal, and worst either totally broken, or totally disgusting. 

When we moved here I painted it all white and we put in vinyl tile flooring - which has not lasted well, at all - but it was really only every supposed to be temporary, just to make it bearable. We had to buy a new oven and fridge and freezer, those we will have to sell on when work is confirmed.

So hopefully what we have here is something like how our kitchen will end up. Imagine a black range (cream was discontinued, booo) and tile-effect roll vinyl flooring. We have deliberately not filled up the walls with cabinets. There is already a boiler - not pictured - by the window which we will have boxed in, and some space leftover so we can decide what we need, though I'm leaning towards a nice plate rack. 

For shock value, here is what our kitchen looked like when we came to view the house - I think it's a testament to our imagination that we then put in an offer. We have since tarted it up a bit, but it's not great. 

Hooray, hoorah, and also try not to have a nervous breakdown.