Our Return : Stage Two : Kitchen Revival

Well what do you know!  We have returned back to New Zealand with Dave's job, for 2-3 years.  We have been away for the past eight years, living in Sydney and the Hunter Valley, Australia.  Its nice to be back amongst family and our NZ friends again!  Our 24 year old daughter has also moved back in with us too.  I'm told it is the in thing to do apparently these days!!  Our son is also able to visit and stay with us too while were here.  I must say it is great having Kimberly & Cameron close by again, spending quality time with us.

As I discussed earlier we have had our family home rented out while we have been overseas.  The house has seen four lots of tenants through it.  All in all the house and property is in pretty good nick!  Though its in need of a lot of TLC!

The agreement/plan in returning to NZ is for me to co-ordinate the renovation of our home with the plan to sell in three years time!  When we will return to Australia again to our other home.

We are starting with the kitchen, which is very dated, dark and unloved... the bench top, OMG!, Whatever were the previous owners thinking, putting in a tiled bench top!! The crumbs and bits are so hard to get out of the grouting!! Back when we bought the house I just used baking soda and a toothbrush to clean the grouting, since our return I just grin and bear it as its about to get ripped out!

Between the kitchen and the dining room is a wall with a small hatch and glass through cabinets.  This lets in some light but we would like to remove the wall completely to open plan the kitchen, and dining room to create one large entertaining hub for our home.

I can't wait to show you the new kitchen plans when they are complete... shouldn't be long now!