Z's kitchen countdown - 3 - the approximate design

 It's clear that I have no idea how to use Blogger nowadays.  I've just dragged and dropped the photos,  hoping for the best.  This is a computer mock-up of the units, but it's not as the kitchen will actually appear.  There will be rather more on the walls.

I like to have things where I can reach for them.  So, behind the Aga, I have racks with hooks for utensils and, to the left of the Aga, on the beam, I have more hooks for saucepans.  These will stay.  

I also will have more shelves than are shown, but it's just as an example here (they're too high, for a start).  The main differences are the doorway on the right, which now is just a hatchway into the next room (it originally was the back door, but we'd incorporated two small areas into one room) and I couldn't leave the doorway, as I had nowhere else to put the fridge.

The window on the left will be replaced - the two each side of the Aga are oak and so will the new one be.  Russell, who couldn't bear to complete a job, didn't have a new window. though all the others in the house were replaced.  The sink is now further over to the right than it will be, the new placement is better and I don't know why we didn't do it in the first place.  There will be open shelves for jars of ingredients, because I like to grab those too.

The colour of the fittings is 'Ludlow Washed Cotton' and the Corian worktops are in Sandstorm.  At present, I have a patterned wallpaper with a darkish background and the room is fairly dark overall, with oak cupboard doors - I took the view that it was not a light room and to run with what it was, but I'm having a complete change.  I'll probably keep the central table that's now in the kitchen, if only because the cat likes to eat there.

Through the doorway is now the study - we briefly used it as a dining room, which is the reason for the hatchway - and I'll have the same flooring in there as in the kitchen, so that it's effectively all one room.  I'll have the fridge and upright freezer in there and a table and dining chairs, because it faces east and south and is lovely in the morning.  It'll be my third dining room.  A Z can never have too many options for eating.  I will also keep my cookery books in there, bringing a big bookcase down from the landing for them.  It's mahogany,  but we'll politely ignore that.

Through the doorway on the left of the bottom photo, there's a lobby leading to the larder, the back door and the laundry room, which is also a passage to the annexe.  Wink and I share the laundry room, each of us having our own equipment, though either of us is welcome to use the other's.  I'm having more kitchen units in the lobby, where there is currently a large chest freezer.  On top, I'll put the wine rack - it's sizeable, being a metre wide and nine bottles hight - and the microwave, which will fit sideways.

The wall that isn't pictured won't have any units or furniture, as there are various doors at that end of the room, leading to the passageway, the dining room, the broom cupboard and the back stairs.  The larder is being cleared and will become the broom cupboard and the broom cupboard will house the three bins - rubbish, recycling and composting stuff.

It all looks rather more stark and pale than it will but, if you've been here, you'll recognise what a huge change there will be.  The room will, of course, be considerably more cluttered than it is here - Jonathan put in a token mixer, but there will be a lot of equipment out, because if it's all in cupboards, it doesn't get used.