Getting there, part 2: a wee update

Updates are like buses, you wait forever and then two turn up at once... I've finally managed to convert the RAW images from last weekend that had been lurking on a USB stick into usable .jpg images. As you will see, considerable progress has been made. My only regret is that while my knees may be black and blue from prolonged contact with the tiled kitchen floor, said floor doesn't appear to be any cleaner than before. I THINK it is a couple of shades lighter than it was before I attacked it with a scrubbing brush and hot water (and yes, an old tootbrush as well!), but that may just be wishful thinking.

 Someday soon there will be a tile floor here. For now, there's a dark, scary hole we must walk past every time we need to go to the bathroom. Cold and scary in the middle of the night, mildly annoying during the day.

But it will be our connection between the kitchen and the living room. The bathroom's off to the right, living room to the left. For now it is known as "Das Loch" ("the hole" in German), because essentially, that's what it is, a dark, scary hole in the middle of the house. Maybe even a black hole, who knows? ;)

 The lovely Marcel in action! Who doesn't love wallpapering a ceiling?

The wallpaper completely transforms the room.

It creates a much more "finished" atmosphere. We also put the fridge up as well, to get a feel for the dimensions.

 See my nice, shiny, clean floor?

This is one of the doorknobs I bought about two years ago to be used on an IKEA chest I had painted white and put in the hall. I wanted to see how it looked in our kitchen. :)

 And finally, today I got these pictures. Woo-hoo, we've got a kitchen! Sort of.

 The worktop's going to change. We want a wooden one instead of the grey. And of course the manky old tiles are going to be covered by the lovely blue tiles in the bottom left corner.

 These tiles.

 One huge step closer to a usable kitchen!