New kitchen - part 1

We have had our fair share of insurance claims over the past four years. It all started with one of the kids bedrooms. We noticed a strange crack in the wall. The insurance company came out and told us that they wouldn't cover it.

But then our handyman showed him a problem we've had in the kitchen for years that was becoming worse. The floor was lumpy - don't know how else to explain it. We re-opened the hole we had made for the last insurance guy and he looked in and said that the floor was constructed in the wrong way. They would give us money to fix the floor but not for a new kitchen. We refused to put in the old kitchen again, which looked like this (sorry for the poor picture quality):

There were several problems with. First of all it was from the early 90's. We didn't really like the tiles. There was a corner that was just a waste of space, the fridge was a big american side-by-side fridge/freezer that we love but it was placed it a really stupid place where all the traffic was.

So I started to plan. We visited every kitchen company storea that we have in Denmark ... well not all of them but we did went to one of each. What we found was that they all had one or two awesome things and some things we hated. And they were soooo expensive. So we ended up in IKEA. In IKEA we could design at home with their nifty design program. I could pick cabinets, sink and storage solutions. That took a good few weeks. We were then left with two problems. We still wanted an american double fridge but no cabinets which it could fit in and we needed ideas for the stupid corner or rather confirmation that what I wanted was plausible to do.

Off too IKEA to plan and order. They have kitchen designers there so we got help to solve it all. 

We are not very handy with tools so we hired someone to fix the floor and put up the kitchen so meanwhile they started at home - this is after their first day:

And with in a week it looked like this:

We were so excited! Mainly because the idea of spending many months with this kitchen was a bit depressing:

Within two weeks the floor was done and all of a sudden we needed to hurry and order the kitchen parts from IKEA.

It was a loooong day in IKEA - it took us three hours to get everything on the carts and pay for it. We had four carts. And we couldn't even get it all. This was in the early spring and that winter we (and a lot of Europe) had a lot of snow. In one of the storage facilities that IKEA use the roof had caved in due to the weight of the snow and had ruined all the fronts for the cabinets that we needed. I went back to IKEA at least once a week for at least 6 weeks. 

But then the building of the cabinets could begin!!!

The new kitchen part 2