The heart of the home....

... is the kitchen (if the house mags are to be believed anyway).

We left it about here on the last update:

The underfloor heating was just about in.

The screed went down and then Mark (tiler and floor man) hit us with 'yeah, well it will take 2 weeks per 1/2" of screed to get dried out". Hmm. That'd been 8 weeks then - which isn't in the project plan at all! So on went the underfloor heating in an attempt to dry it out. It was all going well until:

Which isn't that we let an incontinent giant sleep in the eaves room, it was that we'd taken a radiator off the wall in the eaves room, and it had (apparently) got cold enough that the thermostatic valve opened and let the heating water out. Cue more full blast underfloor heating. Can't wait for that bill!

Since then there's been some more progress:

It's limestone. This is the view from the back of the house, just inside the bifolding doors.

Here's the view the other way.

Here's an idea of what we've done in what was the utility room all that time ago (it's been about a year now). The ceiling is vaulted, and those veluxes face South.

Just need to get the kitchen itself in now.

Oh.

The colour isn't really true - hopefully I'll get some better shots at some other time and the colour will be better.

Here's the view towards the bifolds again.

And towards where the hob will be. You can make out the extractor in the alcove at the back of the unit. It's one of those that pops up out of the worktop. Should be cool. No, it really should - it was hugely expensive - much more than I'd ever want to pay. 

The son - he's where the warming drawer will go. He's a mischief. Little sod.