The kitchen in the new house.

So it would appear all my promises of Christmas baking have been lies till now.  I've just moved house and I've been working on getting that into order.  The old kitchen in the new house is significantly smaller than the kitchen in the house we were renting.  We have a room now ready to house a swanky new kitchen but cant afford to kit it out (because as it turns out there was nothing holding the slates (roof tiles), on being that the slats had dissolved!).  The old kitchen in the new house is a double galley kitchen and works really well if one person is cooking, everything is in easy reach.  Small kitchens can be a blessing in disguise.  In renting over the past 12 years we got really, really good at designing efficient kitchens.

1st Goal - Storage
Its really difficult to find stuff.  Most of it was packed away in chest of drawers (my clothes are from the laundry or a skip bag at the moment - ironing was never a high priority).  Two big billy bookcases took a large chunk of the storage needs from the garage and later down the line we can look at buying doors for them.

2nd Goal - Clear Counter Tops
We went to Ikea and got a bunch of rails and hooks to deal with my obscene need to have utensils (there are 20 filled hooks and we still need more).   We bought a magnetic strip for the knives and got rid of the knife block.  We discovered that the Goodalls spice/herb tins are magnetic so we will probably pick up some more magnetic strips.  I have other hook mounted spice jars that everything else can go in.  My weighing scales is wall mounted and I have one of those plastic bag storage thingys.  The hand blender went up on the wall too and we've run out of wall space.

Whats left to do in the old kitchen...

3rd Goal - Brighten the place up a bit
There are solid wood doors and crap cabinets.  Sugarsoap, Sand, Undercoat and Paint the Cabinets.  Get rid of the current light fitting (the roof is 6'6" and the other half is 6'5") and insert under cabinet lighting and lighting over the food prep/serving area.

4th Goal - Finishes
I will paint the center panel for some of the cabinets with blackboard paint for shopping lists and menus (I have a painfully bad memory).  Some of the tiles need re-sticking and I need to paint the little bits that need painting.  The final thing is that the cooker needs a splashback.  I like the stainless steel ones for practical reasons.