This week my Word of the Week is: Kitchen! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

For most of the week I've been either in the kitchen or thinking about it. We have been decorating in there and it has been a week long job!

When we moved in here over 5 years ago we had lots of plans for the house and top of our list was to decorate the kitchen. It was tatty and dated. Over the years we have painted the walls and that's about it. It was my least favourite room in the house so we decided to just get it done. Stu had ordered all of the paint, DIY things that we needed so we were ready to get started this week!

I was fuming about the paint when it first went on, it's a teal colour and it looked so dark. Stu kept telling me to trust him and the process and he was right. When the paint had dried it was much lighter! Phew!

I didn't think we needed the new strip lights in the kitchen but it turns out we did, LED lights are so much brighter than the old one's we had. It is so much brighter in there now. Ellie took charge when Stu was putting them up, she's training to be an electrician after all. Of course it should have been a straightforward job. Turn the electric off, remove the old one's and wire the new one's up but our house is old and the wires are so it took a while, a couple of Youtube videos with instructions but Stu got there eventually.

The biggest job in the kitchen was painting the cupboards. Our kitchen isn't huge but it does have a lot of cupboards. The plan was to take 4 off at a time, wash them down, give them a coat of undercoat, put them outside to dry and then paint them in the Urban Grey paint that we had bought. It turns out the paint isn't as grey as I thought it would be but instead of returning it and getting a darker grey I just wanted the job done.

We got the first 4 cupboard doors painted and they were outside drying when I thought it had started raining, turns out it wasn't rain, it was hailstones!! I went running outside to recuse the cupboard doors, thankfully they didn't get too wet and ruin all of our hard work. That put a stop to our work as there just wasn't enough room in the kitchen to carry on painting more of the doors. When they had dried Stu put them back up and we had a good idea how the kitchen is going to turn out! Fabulous! So bright and it looks so much lighter in there! I love it already! It's amazing what a lick of paint can do!

On Thursday we had a plan! It was sunny but so cold so we decided to paint the cupboard doors and drawers in the garage and they could dry in there! That worked out better but they still took an age to dry. At least that cleared the kitchen so I could tidy it up a bit and actually do some cooking.

As of yesterday there are still a couple of cupboards to paint and some white glossing to do but we're almost at the finish line. Hooray! Then I can get on with buying pretty things which match the new blue colour on the walls. hehehe

How has your week been? I hope you have had a good one!