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Even before we’d moved in to our house back in 2009, Aimee and I knew we would have to renovate the kitchen. The current kitchen appears to be the original from when the house was built in 1989. It looks dated, the MDF doors have swollen from moisture over the years, there is only a tiny pantry and the orientation makes the kitchen look even smaller than it is.

So, we collected kitset kitchen brochures from a few places and started playing with the pop-out cabinet shapes, making a few designs up that we thought might work. One thing that we really wanted was a large pantry so that means we’d need to do some alteration to the window in the kitchen. The window is currently only around 450mm from each wall so to fit in a big pantry, it needs to be about 600mm smaller.

The next weekend, Placemakers had a kitchen expo on so we went down and had a look at what they had on offer and had one of the lovely ladies put our plan into their CAD Drawing program to mock up what the kitchen would look like from a bunch of different profiles. With a couple of small changes, adjustments and measurements, the dishwasher was able to fit closer to the sink without causing the hob and oven to be too far from everything else.

At this stage, we’re waiting on pricing for what we’ve designed so far, if the window renovation will cost too much or if it’ll be too hard to make the outside of the house look ok with the smaller window, we may have to revisit that approach and do without the large pantry.