2023 September.

     We finished painting the kitchen so it was time to start installing kitchen stuff. Here you can see the gas stove sitting near where its final position will be.

We went to Bunnings and bought some kitchen cupboards. The Kaboodle kitchens seemed to be the cheapest and easiest option.

The cupboard itself is Step 1, then you need to buy doors, hinges, handles, kickboards and all the other bibs and bobs to finish it off. The below photo shows the panels ready to be screwed together. They supply the screws, the feet and the instructions. This is the 400mm base cabinet.

Here is the assembled cupboard.

Below you can see the box, panels and finished product of the 900mm base cabinet.

Next was the 600mm drawers, they were a bit trickier.

There were the panels for the sides, the bottoms, the top and then also for each of the 3 drawers.

The drawers still need runners, and also fronts on the drawers. Bunnings didn't have the hinges we wanted, the drawer runners we wanted, or the door fronts that we wanted, so we had to special order them in. Apparently (according to the online reviews) the Kaboodle Hettiche were much better quality than the regular Kaboodle, even though they were at least $10 more each. Our local Bunnings doesn't have much stock in store, so it was at least a 6 week wait. 

We had decided on Licorice Twist for the door colour, but it seemed that Kaboodle had discontinued it. Instead we decided to get Raw Board doors and paint them ourselves. That meant the doors were only $30 each instead of $80 each. These 3 cupboards needed 3 doors and 3 drawer fronts so we were saving a lot of money. It meant that we had to spend money on paint but it still worked out cheaper, and we got to choose whatever colour we wanted.

Below you can see the kitchen cupboards in almost their final positions. The cupboard on the right hand side needs to move to the left but the pipe in the floor is blocking it for now.

Here you can see the sink sitting on its cupboard.

It's a double bowl sink, so needs special drainage plumbing to join everything up.

In October 2023 we work towards getting the plumbing sorted out and all the cupbaords properly in place with a benchtop on top too!