Where there's a will, there's a way !

Ey up my faithful blogworms, sorry my blogs seem a bit haphazard at the moment but we're working all over the place and sometimes I can't get to manage to keep you all upto date with our goings on.

Anyway, this week I thought a post about refurbishing existing kitchens might be in order to remind you all of what's possible. After all, this is where we started all those years ago and still carry out this sort of work.

It's surprising what can be achieved as you will see in todays photos

We started with a kitchen built many years ago by a joiner using reclaimed timber, so all the sizes were a bit off standard, all the fittings were outdated and it took some getting apart.

Part of the cause of the demise of this area was that some muppet had used a laminate worktop, timber edged around a double Belfast sink .... A big no-no as it just rots with all the water around the sink !! It ruined the worktop and leaked down onto the sink base taking that with it, so new both required here

Sometimes, just sometimes when working with old cabinetry, things just don't go your way ! We were increasing storage space on here by fitting a sequence of top boxes above the old wall cabinets. With the best measuring possible, the new top boxes were an annoying 8mm longer than the old wall cabs, hence the need to make a very skinny filler piece to make up the levels. Can't screw it on so must it be glued resulting in the "clamps nest" that you see here ! Where there's a will, there's a way !

The resulting modifications fitted with all the new cabs and doors builds up the storage space to a new level, and looks very tidy, if I say so myself !

The sink area took nearly as much work. You will notice the dishwasher has gone ( an "on site" eleventh hour decision by our customer ) and we were short of a cabinet to put in it's place ..... Oh poo !
The answer, salvage any usable parts from the old sink base and end panels that enclosed the old dishwasher and create, from scratch, a cabinet that would take the new door we supplied. Once again, where there's a will, there's a way !

We are just waiting for the new quartz worktops to be fabricated to finish the project off and I will, of course, show you photos of it once completed.

This shows you what's possible by refurbishing old kitchens. We do need to look hard at the old kitchen structure initially to make sure this sort of project is possible but when it's still serviceable, then anything is possible.

Those of you who know us also know that "anythings possible" is the guiding principle that we've always worked to. But that decision when working on old kitchen has to be tempered with common sense too.

So, as a reminder of where we began, don't forget that you can consider a refurbishment, it doesn't always need to mean that you rip out the old kitchen, at least we can genuinely offer you that choice.

And it saves waste and saves money, another of our guiding principles !

Jules