Saturday 22 March 2008

shelf help

When we bought Peter, there were kitchen cupboards attached to the wall, which were a bit old and tired, and too high to reach anyway.

As has become the norm with thinks onboard, taking them down became a long and protracted affair since once we took them off the wall we found that their close proximity to the wall behind had resulted in patches of rust, which we had to grind off with a steel brush attachment on the drill.

they were then hammerited, to combat any future rust

and finally painted white

and a couple of the old cupboards incorporated into my new kitchen shelves, which were a bit of a bargain altogether since the shelves cost 10p each from the homebase offcuts bin, the uprights were about another tenner, and the cupboards were recycled. Even the blackboard paint we found in the engine room!


Vortex helped with the painting, before taking a well deserved rest...


2 comments:

lorna said...

How come their kitchen 'before' looked so much nicer than ours does? (apart from your amazing shelves that is!)

steve said...

they tidied up before taking the pictures, whereas we tell it like is, in a gritty, no holds barred stylee...