This is a post about kitchen ceiling. My kitchen is a tiny ‘off-shot’, its North facing and I wouldn’t say it was the hub of the house, but it used to be a pokey, dark room that needed a light on most of the year but now it’s a light airy to a space.
When I moved into this house it was untouched since the 1940’s. I’d watched a lot of DIY SOS and had a view that all builders are enthusiastic, cheery and arrive on time in a group with matching fleeces. I decided to undertake a renovation of the entire house. Everything got ripped out and replaced. I managed to employ builders who fell into a different camp from those on DIY SOS. My experience of builders is, I imagine, similar to herding cats, never where you want them to be, unfamiliar with any kind of direction. It was a stressful period. However, I ploughed on, the back of the house was dark and my brilliant idea was to knock the kitchen through to the dinning area and take out the kitchen ceiling, open it up to roof and put velux windows in. Which dully happened. Then the man from building regulations arrived, decided he didn’t like it and informed me the ceiling had to go back in and he wasn’t discussing it further. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I rang his department and sobbed and (amazingly) they agreed to my changes with some extra work via a structural engineer. I decided to employ the sob/crying tactic more often and how much more cooperative the builders became when faced with a weeping woman. I have a tiny but bright and airy kitchen and in the mornings when the sun is out sunshine streams through and lights the whole back of the house. I am Nick Knowles.
Weeping Woman power!!! Glad you got went you wanted, nowt like an airy kitchen!
I wish we could do something like that in our kitchen. I have to have the light on all day and even then it’s not bright enough when I’m cooking because the light is behind me.
I long for the day when we can afford a totally new kitchen, designed by a clever someone who knows about these things who will give me tons of storage and loads of light!
The woman card sobbing or otherwise is always good to have in your back pocket. Whip it out when you need it and put it back when you don’t 😉
Lovely airy kitchen and I would have sobbed too if the nasty man from building reg’s said I had to put my ceiling back!!!
P.s My Dad and brother own a building firm!!! 🙂
Loving the light in this photo, but who is Nick Knowles lol
Huzzah for the tiny kitchen! I say they are underrated. Who needs space for huge kitchen islands anyway?! 😉
Nothing wrong with a bit of waterworks to get the job done. And a lovely job too 🙂
Ah yes, no man wants a weeping woman on their hands! I can imagine the windows make a massive difference
Oh wow, good on you for your perseverance! I think maybe I need to use tears, as normally if I don’t get my way I turn into someone horrible and deploy the ‘only child spoilt strop’ technique, and I don’t like it when I become that person! x
I love the windows, you’ll get so much natural light. Ours is so dark we’ve put a strip light back in which makes it overly bright. Kudos on the crying technique x
Lol! Glad the tears worked 🙂 The light coming through in this pic is great – you can’t beat natural light!
I love the idea of having natural light flooding in from the ceiling.
I’m loving your use of the female magic power that is weeping 🙂
Love your original view of builders smiling in matching fleeces – hilarious- and well done for completing the blogging challenge! xx
Well done you! I really want to be able to do mine soon but am dreading the builders and the mess they make
you can’t beat a good bit of blubbing to get what you want…it got me my 3rd baby!!
I loooove those skylights.
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LOL if it works for a toddler…I hate DIY, I hate the mess. It’s always lovely once it’s finished though.
The next time the builder guy who is doing my loft room comes round (which will be god knows when) I shall employ this tactic in order to get him to bloody finish it! It’s been going on for well over a year now and I’m so pissed off with having dirty boot marks up the stairs and half drunk bottles of coke left all over the place…..can’t wait to have my house back!
I love the colour of your kitchen by the way, it looks lovely and warm! xx
Tradespeople are bloody rubbish. Fact. One year on we’re still waiting for loads of stuff to be finished at our house!!!!! xx
Amazing! I need to try that. I usually do the make a vat of tea and put a pound of sugar n tactic. Never works, I’m ripped off every time I get workmen in.