26 February 2013
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While cooking last night, Jane realised that the fridge light had gone off and the fridge / freezer unit, which often clunks and shudders was as quiet as death. We had been running down our freezer stocks for a planned … Continue reading
9 September 2012
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I’ve been looking for a radio for the kitchen for sometime now. Originally I was planning to get a DAB radio but, having spent sometime reviewing the technical details I decided that the premium price wasn’t worth it for my … Continue reading
14 July 2012
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Our kitchen project made another leap forward today with putting various shelves and the like up on the walls. The most ambitious work involved a little bit of IKEA hacking, turning a shelf made of six parallel metal rods into … Continue reading
30 June 2012
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For the past couple of days, I have been mainly ikeaing; assembling the last bits of the order that came last weekend, going on a hunter-gatherer mission to Milton Keynes to pick up more and then back to assembly this … Continue reading
14 June 2012
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The new floor didn’t go down this morning as the substrate hadn’t completely dried. Frustrating but they will be back again tomorrow so it should be ready for the weekend. Meanwhile, here is an amusing image I found on BoingBoing … Continue reading
13 June 2012
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The kitchen is completely empty, even down to a bare concrete floor. It became obvious, as soon as we took the old vinyl floor out, just how much damping effect it had on the sound of the room. Every sound … Continue reading
12 June 2012
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Our kitchen project is rolling forward. The ceiling and walls are now painted, everything has been taken out of the room (including the kitchen sink) and we are ready for the flooring guys to come in tomorrow. First they will … Continue reading
18 May 2012
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Most of today has been taken up with more work on our kitchen project: visiting a local design centre, secretly balking at the price, deciding to restrict ourselves to what is within our DIY limits and then undertaking another research … Continue reading