Renovations starting

We’ve been in our house for over 10 years now. During that time we’ve always talked about moving the laundry upstairs to be closer to the outside clothesline. Our kitchen is finally being renovated and there is going to be some changes to the layout in the house.

We’ve gone through various places of where we could put it. For quite a while we thought we’d put it down one end of our kitchen when we renovated it but changed our mind in the end.

So our renovations are starting this week. Watch this video to get an idea of what we’re doing.

We’re taking out the wall between the kitchen and the lounge room and part of the wall between the kitchen and the dining room. My husband has already bricked in our old back door from the kitchen to outside. We don’t use it since we changed a window in the dining room to bi-fold doors.

So our new kitchen will be U-shaped with a longer bit on one side the ‘U’. We’ll have fridge, oven & microwave on one side with the sink and dishwasher at the bottom of the ‘U’ and high cupboards all along the other side with drawers under the bench and the hot plates in the middle.

In what is called a utility room on the original plan, has been an office space and has also had our new fridge as it didn’t fit in the space for the fridge in the kitchen. On one side of this room, back to the stairs we’re going to have a walk in pantry and on the other side we’re going to block off a door and have a small laundry.

So yesterday we finished emptying everything out, including the lounge and dining room as all the floors are going to be polished. Under the carpet and the lino are beautiful hard wood floors. We’ve already done the dining room but the whole area will be done now.

My husband has already pulled up the lino, removed the masonite and pulled up all the staples and nails in the kitchen and utility room. He’s also blocked up one side of what was a window & has been and opening for 40+ years which will end up being cupboards on the kitchen side and the pantry on the other side.

Monday I baked all afternoon as we will be without a kitchen & an oven for a few weeks. So my freezer is now full. I made:

• a double batch of Chocolate Brownies
• Peanut Butter Cookies
• Macadamia Nut Blondies
• Maple Quinoa Biscuits
• roasted nuts and seeds for Grain Free Granola from Life Changing Food Cookbook

I’m hoping to video a couple of times a week to show progress so subscribe to my YouTube channel or follow Feed My Family on Facebook to keep updated.

Where making a mock-up kitchen downstairs in the existing laundry so will have a sink and some bench & cupboard space. Any tips for coping with renovations? What quick and easy meals do you recommend to make on a BBQ, with a microwave, Bellini Thermo Machine or an electric fry pan?

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