My parents are renovating their kitchen at the moment, I know this only too well because when I was staying over there a few weeks ago I was woken up every day by some related noise or another — scraping off the old wallpaper, hammer things, ripping out the sink. I always forget that I keep anti social hours until I go home and my parents remind me that 11am is not early to most people.
The kitchen really did need doing though, they still had some weird 1970s art deco paper and an arch on one of the walls, I kid you not. They’ve decorated it before, but it was always just a touch up paint job or fixing of this and that. This is the first time it’s been actually fully striped bare and started again — eveything from the light fittings to the fancy new stainless steel sinks — and they have done it all themselves, hence why it’s already taken well over a month and they still have quite the way to go!
I hope they’ll be happy with it once it is done, it’s been an awful lot of effort for them and they are no spring chickens now!
