When we bought this house in 2003 there was no kitchen, well there was a dodgy counter with a sink in it and some hot water tank hanging above it and some stoves were left and a very smelly fridge, but nothing quite Yvestown-esque (ha ha, I read this over here and I love it, thanks so much for turning me into something esque)

This is the sight of the kitchen when we took all the mess out and after the stucco people left - man alive do they make a mess!

With a very tight budget we found this kitchen on eBay for no money and remodeled it and painted it white to fit our kitchen.

Now a couple of years later we decided that we are grownup enough to spend grownup money on a ridiculously expensive fridge. You should know that I have different prices for everything when I tell my mother how much I spent on stuff. It's always 50% off and I always bought it on sale. But I really couldn't cheat with the baby blue Smeg we bought. You should've heard the howl she made after I told her the price when she asked me if it was ok to give a donation towards the fridge for the Bo's birthday.

Before the Smeg could enter our kitchen we had to make some changes.

I decided that we needed new counters, the old (build-in) fridge needed to go and I had to do some new shelving arrangements.

The bookshelves were a later addition so I wanted to level the work tops and replace them with oak.

Here's the result. New Ikea (abstrakt) counters, a leveled work top and less shelves.

Oh and of course room for the baby bleu Smeg!

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As I get so many email asking me where I bought this and that, I've decided to include as much info on the bottom of each post as from today. I can't impossibly write down everything and link to everything so you'll have to email me only if you really, really must!!

I bought the Yummy letters over here, the wallpaper and red clock are by Cath Kidston, the sink, work top and counters by Ikea and the china is Greydawn by Johnson Brothers.