Busy weekend and a kitchen makeover

Mr P foolishly came home Friday and asked me "is their anything you would like me to do this weekend" and I laughingly asked him to fit a breakfast bar 2 cupboards and a work station for my painting gear (I don't have room for a work room or studio) and love him to bits he slogged his guts out and did it for me!

He even fitted a glass fronted cupboard and wine rack....
It has to be said that I have never seen 6 bottles of red wine last this long in our house, he doesn't want to drink any as it will ruin the display.....

The original kitchen was the brown doors and the previous owner fitted black worktops and tiles, now I am not a great lover of black tiles and worktops but I realise that we cannot afford new everything so I decided to stick with the same colour worktop and I am going to purchase replacement doors from now until Christmas and turn the whole kitchen white, it looks so much bigger with lighter colour doors. I have been promised an Aga in the spring so next winter my kitchen will be warm and inviting too! Its surprising how cold the tiled floor makes it plus apart from the open fire in the lounge we have no heating in the house whatsoever....

I am also going to recolour the tiles with some tile paint, but Mr P is not too keen on this idea...

My workstation is very compact, but I am so chuffed that I now have an area that I can call my own. Once I have sorted out the lounge I will take some snaps of that too, and you will have visited our whole downstairs..... apart from the bathroom but that is a nasty little hole and needs gutting and complete refit.... I am not sure if the previous owner was plastering the walls with his fingers or icing a Christmas cake, it is seriously nasty!

I have to finish of the edge of the worktop but I didn't have time today as I took my mum to Haskins at Shepton Mallet so that she could buy a new 3 piece suite I have never been to a shop with so many stairs and with little nooks and corridors everywhere how Daniel lasted the day bless him...I will never know, he did get a new nee neer (fire engine) for his wonderful behaviour, I would have taken a picture but he had to take it to bed with him. I also need to buy 2 bar stools but I am really struggling to decide which ones to get...

So for all his hard work I have gotten the coffee ready and shoved a chicken in the rotisserie and the spuds are baking in the oven, Mr P won't be home till gone 8pm as he is trying to cram in as many hours as possible to cover the time off he'll be taking over Christmas as he won't get paid holiday being a contractor!

I must admit I love my rotisserie, I can cook a chicken in 90 minutes and I don't have to baste it once, and it is so moist and tender....

Dearest Mr P thank you for being such a wonderful friend, partner and dad, I don't know what I would do without you!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend too!

*Alex*