Hors Serie: fighting the kitchen

One of our weekend tasks was to work out which bits of the kitchen we have, and which we don't. As it eventually turned out, Ikea had correctly helped us order, and had correctly delivered, all the bits we need. But working out which drawer goes on which cupboard was tricky (the hard bit was realising that a 40 cm door that Tim had put on a cupboard, for symmetry, was really supposed to be half of the 80 cm unit for the sink).

M has had yet another idea, and we're going with it in slightly modified form: the worktop will now be an L all the way to the far wall, and the washer and dryer will be *under* this, both. That allows us some upper cupboards above, and also (since the washer has a smaller door) a lesser gap which allows more room for the fridge. With this version we can draw on the floor a 1m diameter circle that could be a kitchen table.

Saturday, two excursions: to Ivett and Reed who do nice shiny bits of granite that M has really set her heart on for the worktops. And they *are* nice. We like the "volga blue": dark black, with blue highlights/irridescence.

After that, to MFI. Cos: we have the wrong extractor unit. It just won't fit. This is where it gets confusing, cos in the shop MFI are fine and say: yes, we've sold you the wrong thing. But today on the phone the salesman is less accomodating. But we are going to change it, somehow.

[I forgot: the cool thing at Ivett and Reed was the gas fire with a remote control! Whatever next. Some more details]