Old for new.

Were does one start with the story, after such a fortnight of dammed hard work?
Well I started by taking out the old kitchen two weeks ago Saturday/Sunday and storing it in the cellar were it was to be picked up by the church that we had given it to. Who in their function pass it on to people in need?
On the Monday I started to strip the wallpaper (wood-chip) well that is a job I can tell ya!! Our first intentions were to keep the wall tiles (10x10) and add another row on top of them giving us the height that we needed between the floor cupboards and wall cupboards.
Unfortunately some of the tiles were lose and so we decided instead of adding new tiles to old ones we would retile the kitchen instead.
That meant we had to go out and buy new tiles, luckily we did not have to spend to much time looking because about a quarter of an hour after entering the store we found the ones we liked. They are 20x25 cm white/grey in colour with a light texture, they go very well with the new kitchen and we are now pleased that we decided to retile.So not only did I have to strip the walls I also had to take of all the old tiles and clean the walls from mortal. Once done I had then to lay some new electrical stripping for some new power points which caused so much dust and dirt that the whole flat was filthy after doing so which didn’t go down well with my wife.
It took me nearly two weeks to complete everything from putting in new stripping, tiling, wallpapering, laying new linoleum and painting the window frame.A week last Tuesday the new kitchen was delivered and in the next day and half was installed, the guy that installed the kitchen was a super craftsman that knew his job and we are more then pleased with the result.
Getting the flat cleaned and the putting every thing back in the kitchen took us three days and I can say we were both dead beat after doing so.
While I was doing the kitchen my wife had her kitchen spread around the flat, the coffee machine was in the bathroom, we had the garden table in the study to prepare meals on a small electric stove to cook on and also the microwave. Talk about improvising that’s not the word for it so my wife was chuffed to bits when every thing was back in its place.
After so much hard work we are both very pleased with the end result and that’s the main thing. (See photos)

We have been having extreme cold weather since the beginning of the year with a lot of snow (which we still have) this is for our area of Germany very uncommon.
Last night for instance the temperature dropped to eight below and during the day never rose above freezing.
The forecast for the next few days is more snow and strong winds.Brrrrr.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss