Livening up the Kitchen

The shelves in the kitchen, made from a worktop from Worktop Express were oiled, (as recommended) with Danish Oil.  However, it is also suggested that this should be repeated every three months - as though that would ever happen.  Jane and David Dean, have also just remodelled their study using the same worktop, but being very eagle-eyed came across Le Tonkinois varnish at the Boat Show.  This contains only natural vegetable ingredients and again is Linseed and Tung Oil based; being used on boats, it has the added benefit that should The Great Fludde ever re-occur, at least the worktops will survive (or more likely, having a glass of wine spilled over on them).  So this is what we are using for the top of the fitted furniture in Bedroom 1.  The first coat has gone on very nicely indeed - thank you Jane and David.

We had tremendous excitement this afternoon with the arrival of the glass splashback for the wall behind the hob in the kitchen.  Kathy from Opticolour has been extremely patient, whilst Vicki finally made up her mind as to what colour(s) this was going to be.  Here are the two fitters from Opticolour, carrying a 3.5 metre length of glass (which was surprisingly bendy) - rather them than me!