MORE €UROS....

Had a call from Raimondo (from kitchen shop) this afternoon. I can't have the range hood that I ordered. I'd chosen the one that is almost hidden and can be pulled out when needed, so all you'd see was a 4cm wide strip on the bottom of the cupboard. I'm having very tall (92cms) overhead cupboards and they don't seem to make the 88 cm door needed to go over the hood! So choices are, go with one that has the little flap that you open which would be cheaper (and uglier) or add on €305 for a completely hidden one.

Update - Raimondo called back and he'll give me the super range hood for "only" €150 more instead of €305. Yet once again the overall cost is growing!!

Anyway, here's the general layout of the kitchen.

And here it is showing where the windows and walls are. The top two shelves won't be as high as they are in the picture. LST is the dish washer (lavastoviglie).

THE PLAN....

Here's a plan of the current bathroom....

Apart from eliminating the offending brown / swamp inspired tiles, the plan is to have a larger bath (current one, apart from being brown, is only 140x65cms) and also to "hide" the washing machine. The idea is to build a floor to ceiling cupboard that will house the washing machine and have loads of space above it for storage, leaving the bathroom free of clutter! This cupboard will be in the place of the current shower. Anyway, more of what I plan to do later...

Here's the yummy shower enclosure that I ordered today...

It's Extreme 6 from Titan. Price is a bit extreme too... but I think it's worth it!!!

It would look great on a streamline shower tray, but for practical reasons it has to be higher than the floor level. So I've chosen this one from GSI. Its 72x100cms.

And here's the steel enamel bath from Kaldawei, 170x75cms.

I like that the shower base and the bath have a similar shape!

I drove the guy in the showroom crazy trying to choose it!! Oh well!!