kitchen

The kitchen is my favourite room of the house. We spend most of our time here and the space

works just as we had hoped it would.We wanted lots of bench space,
somewhere to sit, higher bench tops and a space that was warm and inviting.
We chose white cabinetry and after much deliberation

grey benchtops - thinking that otherwise it would be too white for us.

 looking down into the kitchen with my much

loved antique scales in the foreground

 looking back down towards the front of the house.
we chose Corian over Caesarstone as it comes as one solid
block rather than having to have joins.

 searched high and low for these lights and

found them at Ici et La in Sydney.

 behind the stools we have a row of bi-fold doors that open

up to the deck. It makes entertaining so easy

as you can feel part of everything while still working in

the kitchen

 view from the deck looking back into the kitchen

 both the man of the house and I are tall, and so in addition to

higher benchtops, we wanted a wall mounted oven. I know

ovens underneath the stove top look lovely, but I was sick of bending

down all the time. We chose a Neff oven.

 this was one of the main selling points for me for

the Neff. It has castors and you can slide the

trays out very easily to check on what is

cooking

 the magical "Slide'N'Hide" door was the second selling point.

Going.....

 going........

 gone!

I seriously love this and it is so convenient.

If the man of the house was reading this (he doesn't read the blog)

he would harrumph loudly and grumble under his breath

"you'd want to seriously love it for the amount of extra money

that door cost".

Our builder talked us through a few rough ideas for the kitchen and then

sent us to his cabinet maker who spent a lot of time with us, finding out what was

important to us and then guiding us in the right direction. I'd be very happy
to recommend them (and my builder) to anyone in Brisbane.

We chose

2Pak cabinets painted in Lexicon

Corian bench top in Lava Rock
Dorf Kytin mixer
Waden reverse osmosis water filter
Highland gas stovetop
Neff oven
Miele dishwasher

Boy of the house was home sick from school today.

That meant I got a day off work to mop his

fevered brow. Everything feels better after a

cup of chai tea in the big bed

 

loving this weather at the moment in Brisbane.

We have a Japanese maple in the front garden

which provides us with some glorious autumnal colours



just as we are heading into autumn here, everything is coming

alive in Germany - my Mum sent me this photo of

one of the peony roses in her garden. So lovely.