Kitchen Window Completion

It's been a while since the 'dust' complaint and I realised I hadn't shown you how things looked once the kitchen window was finished.

So here are the finished pics. Well, nearly finished, as the joists still needed to be removed and the final bricks popped into the wall, which is of course now done.

It's SO much better - the pics just don't do it justice - but we now have light coming into the room through a much larger window at the back (and we're south-facing garden, so it makes a massive difference) - and we still have the original window over the sink, which also lets light in.

To put it into perspective, I came home the other day and panicked that I could see what looked like a white 'fog' hovering above the kitchen floor (the kitchen door was shut, so it was viewed through the blurred glass of our kitchen door).

When I opened the door I realised it was simply the light reflecting off the floor!

That's how much difference it makes!

So pleased we had this done. Now, I guess we'd better decide whether to have the extension or not...

...SOOO expensive...

...surely just a lovely new kitchen would do...?

...but it would make the living space so much more comfortable...

...hmm...more thought needed methinks...

WM xx

Look at all the lovely, lovely light!

And the garden! You can see the garden!

Loving the idea that 2 posts are supporting a wall of our house.

Reminder of what it looked like when we bought the house - OK tidier - but there was nothing in it! This is to illustrate the difference in size!

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