Kitchen progress

I've just returned from 12 days in France. Apart from the delicious feeling of being home for more than just a weekend, the purpose was to move works forward. And we did get a lot accomplished. Henny had already decorated the living room with stunning results, a magnum opus due to previously detailed difficulties. You'll have to wait for pictures; the ones taken with the camera phone just don't do it justice.

This week the kitchen was painted. Sorry we couldn't shift the scaffolding. I like looking up and seeing the old pigeonnier through the skylight. The two stunning beams are reclaimed, not an original feature of this house, but now the best we've got.

The length of the room running under the glass bricks is 6.4 metres. We hope to put a linear kitchen straight across once we figure out what we want. The centre of the glass bricks is where the extractor will go; you can see the hole for the duct. We created a soffit here with 6 recessed down lighters on a dimmer which give off a lovely ambient glow at night. It's exciting to see things you planned and hoped for actually up and running. Is that a light flickering at the end of the tunnel?