New year… new kitchen!

With the onset of 2010, our builders have arrived in style on the first working day of the year.

We’ve engaged a brilliant local firm called Upgrade Building Solutions (UBS) to demolish the dividing wall between the old Utility & Dining rooms, make good, tile the floor and supply/fit a new kitchen.

The rooms started life as this – utility on the left, dining room on the right with a solid blockwork wall in the middle.

Aside from the dubious picture, UBS arrived en-mass on day one – filling the drive & most of the road with their vans.

Much controlled chaos followed their arrival with the wall coming down along with the original plasterboard ceilings in the space of a day – resulting in the slightly odd sight of daylight through the upstairs floorboards!!!

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