(bright music)
- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm finally sharing with you
our full kitchen tour.
It's all done now so I'm gonna walk you through
life around my house.
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The reason we decided to get a new kitchen
was because our old one was eight years old
and starting to get a little bit tired,
but more than that we really needed more storage.
We started out with our old kitchen as a couple,
and now we're a family of five,
and all five of us have three meals a day,
so we needed things like a bigger fridge,
we needed a freezer in here.
We just needed a bit more space,
so I think we have definitely achieved that.
I should also mention that we decided
to go for a mirror splash back
which being a blogger was probably not the best idea,
but we really, really love it.
But you probably will see my camera man filming this,
who is Matt.
But yeah, if I take you over here first,
this area was just a blank wall,
and it also had a sideboard on it.
And although we had a little bit of storage
within the sideboard, we just looked at the space above it
and thought that we could put units
all the way across this wall,
and we've done that and it's worked really, really well.
So we have so much more storage now.
We have a little bit of a pantry here
with this pull-out cupboard.
So we decided to fill up this cupboard
with things like pasta, rice, cereal, cans,
and I've decanted a lot of the products
into these containers which are from Amazon
and Ikea as well, I will link them down below.
But yeah, it's honestly,
we've got so much of our stuff in this little pantry.
It's been brilliant, and I love that you just pull it out
and then push it back in again.
(baby talking)
- [Matt] Mmm, hello.
I'm gonna show them.
In terms of the color,
we decided to go very bright in this room.
I thought it would be a nice backdrop for my videos,
and Instagram photos as well, and just really
brighten up this space.
So the color of the units is called cashmere,
but it's really like a gray-ee beige,
it's like a greige, greige yeah. (laughing)
For our countertops, we decided to go
with quartz countertops, we've never had that before
and it was a bit of an expense,
but we went with low-cost kitchen units,
and we feel like the countertop
really makes it look a bit more luxury
and kind of gives it that finishing touch,
We now also have a full-size fridge
which we'd never had before.
We used to have just half a fridge
and then half a freezer, but this is brilliant
because I've got three boys and they eat so much food,
we just found that we were needing to go to the shops
everyday whereas now I can do a big weekly shop.
So it's been amazing and we've got so much storage
in there it's not even all full.
I think this down here is for wine
and it's literally empty (laughing)
'cause we don't really drink or anything.
So yeah, so that's been brilliant.
And then next to the fridge we had a bit of counter put
like we could have had units right to the end,
but we thought it would be really practical
to have a bit of counter here
so when you get things out of the fridge
you have a place to put them,
so that's been brilliant.
And in this cupboard, this was Matt's idea,
this is a breakfast larder.
So the doors kind of come back like this,
and then we've hidden the microwave,
the toaster, the Nutri Ninja, and the bread as well,
kids vitamins and stuff.
So in the morning at breakfast,
you can just have this unit completely open,
and be using it, and then when I want to clean up
really quickly, I could just close the door again,
and it's all hidden, and we actually saw this idea,
it was from a Tom Howley kitchen wasn't it?
But we couldn't afford Tom Howley, (laughs)
So our carpenter worked with us to build this
with the kitchen units.
Here we've got a little set of pullout drawers
which is great, this is our snack drawer in here,
and then we also have a little drawer
for bowls and cooking appliances, things like that.
And then there's a really tiny one up here
which is our spice rack, spice rack et cetera.
The next thing I am so excited about,
we got integrated bins which is just amazing
'cause I used to hate way the bins looked
in the background of all my videos.
It just didn't look nice, so now we have recycling,
we have rubbish, and we've even got a place
for the bags to sit under there, and it's great
'cause when you make breakfast in the morning
on the counter here, you can just go shush shush
with all the crumbs and fruit and stuff.
You can just chuck it all in there
and then it's gone and we love it.
There's lots more counter space over here,
and this is where we decided to put our kettle,
and it's kind of hidden a little bit as well
when you walk into the kitchen.
And Matt designed the kitchen,
and he decided to put the power over here as well,
again quite hidden.
And then above the kettle, we have a space
for all of our coffee and tea.
And I love this so much because you used to be able
to see the stairs in our kitchen,
but the people that made the kitchen
have now hidden the stairs within all of the cupboards
so that's really, really nice.
And then next to all the coffee and tea,
we have all of our mugs, and cups,
and all of that kind of stuff here.
We also made maximum space of the corner,
so we have a corner unit here,
which is where I'm keeping all of my
baking stuff at the moment.
We've got these amazing baskets from Ikea,
which are like metal baskets, and I just have
all my baking stuff in there,
so if I ever wanna bake with the boys
I can just pull it all out.
As you can see, we haven't even filled it up,
like there's still so much more space
that we could use in that unit.
There's another cupboard over here with storage.
I've kept a lot of the cooking things over here,
and I found this clear prospects like a spinny thing.
What's the spinny thing called?
Lazy Susan?
- [Matt] Yeah.
- I found this on Amazon so I will link it.
Loads of you loved it on Instagram.
So yeah, all the cooking stuff is here which is great
'cause then I could just cook on the hob
with it all just next to it.
And as you can see, we still have some storage
that we haven't even used.
In each under the counter corner,
we decided to get these kind of units,
which are just great, we have so much storage.
This one's full of like random cooking stuff.
But you get all that storage in there,
and then also here as well,
We are totally in love with our cutlery drawer.
It is huge, and we found this amazing cutlery tray
on Amazon, which is the perfect fit.
You can get it like made to measure.
They do all different sizes, and it's wooden,
and it just feels really, really nice,
and we've even got some copper cutlery now
from Next as well, and yeah,
we just really, really love having it.
And it's something so simple,
but we used to have a really rubbish like plastic tray,
and it wasn't very nice.
Down here we have a drawer that pulls out
for all of our plates, and bowls,
and cutting boards as well.
We tried to keep as much as we could off of the counters.
But this has made such a difference.
We used to have to put our plates into like a cupboard,
and stack them up.
And I don't know what it is, but it's feels a lot easier
to just put them into the drawer.
So yes we love that.
And then down at the bottom,
we have all of our pots and pans.
Our extractor fan is up here, and it's integrated as well.
And then as I said, we went for the mirror splash back.
And we decide to go for one big piece of mirror.
They could have broken it up into three,
but we wanted just the one so there are no lines
or anything like that on it.
And then coming down to the hob,
we decided to go for a silver hob.
It was really difficult to choose actually,
'cause we initially wanted white,
but then we were worried that the hob, if it was white,
if it would match up with the counter,
and then we thought if it was black it would be too dark,
So we found silver, and we think
it's really, really beautiful
with all of the chrome extras in this kitchen.
And then we actually kept the same oven
that we have always had.
We had this in our other kitchen,
and it was perfectly good, so we've decided to just keep.
In this corner, we have another one of those units
which pulls out and kind of like swings around.
And in this one I keep all the kids' plastic stuff,
so all of their cups, Tupperware for school,
plates, all that kind of stuff is in this cupboard.
And I bought these from Poundland,
just to kind of give it a little bit
of organizational storage.
So yeah, I think it works really, really well,
and it's great to hide it all away.
There's even more cupboards over here.
This one is pretty random, it is like coffee,
tea, salt, and pepper, vitamins, and stuff like that,
so we've got all that here.
Champagne flutes randomly.
And then over here, this is really clever because again
we have this old pipe in the corner.
But they've built the units around that pipe
so it went straight to the wall
which we really, really love.
So in here, I have the kids snack bags,
and the sweets for the kids are way up high so.
(baby crying)
- [Matt] He heard the word.
- So they can't reach them.
We decided to invest in some artificial flowers
for the kitchen as well.
There's actually a florist near us
that does artificial flowers.
So we got this one.
And we decide to go for like a mirror vase
to match all the chrome and mirror.
And then we've got these artificial roses.
So I think it was a little bit more expensive
than obviously a normal bunch of flowers,
but it will last forever.
We also got this tall flower arrangement here,
again it's artificial, and what I love about this one
is she said that every season we can change
these flowers around the sides, is this hydrangeas?
So this was like the autumn look,
but we're going to get like a Christmas look,
and then you can get like pink for spring,
and something else for summer.
So we can change up this arrangement throughout the year.
Over here on the countertop we have our Google Home Hub,
and I cannot believe how much we actually use it.
While I'm cooking I watch it all the time.
And we had power put here for things like this and chargers.
And we decided to get a socket that also had
USB points in it, so it's really easy
to charge lots of things.
Over here under the counter we have a freezer.
It's just a half freezer, and we also have
another small freezer in our utility room,
but this is great for frozen vegetables
and things that we use all the time.
And then under the sink over here,
I have my Narnia, like Mrs. Hinch would say.
So yeah, all my cleaning products.
The kids never show an interest in this cupboard,
so I'm not worried in the slightest.
I have it all there, but I have a little place
for rags, a place for tea towels, my cleaning products,
dishwasher tablets, surface sprays hang there.
I've got it all there.
And I've talked about these shelves before
so many times on my channel, but I love them,
I found them on Amazon,
and they fit to any under-the-sink storage.
I also hang my tea towel there sorry (laughing)
because I don't really want it in sight,
so I put it in that unit there.
And then over here under the counter,
we have our dishwasher.
It's the same dishwasher that we've always had
because it was still working we just decide to keep it,
so that is there.
And then we have four more drawers which are brilliant
'cause we've never had this kind of storage before,
we brought the breakfast bar out, that bit further.
So we have a little junk drawer here of random stuff.
Then in this drawer we have all of our sachets.
We love to cook with these sachets,
so I buy them when they're on special, put them in there.
And then we have a drawer for birthday cards, and ribbons,
and tape, this is like the birthday gift sort of drawer.
And then I also have one for plastic bags,
don't look, I'm supposed to fold them all up.
I haven't had a chance.
This is our sink, we decided to go for one, big sink
that is under the counter and it works really well.
We decide to go for a composite white sink
because we thought it would look good with the work top,
and they cut a bit of a draining board
over here on this side.
Taps that we went for are polished chrome,
and we thought that this one looked
quite like country kitchen.
And then I've got my hand soap.
And then over here, this was a hand soap dispenser,
but I filled it up with liquid to do your dishes with,
because I find it's so easy if I'm washing our pots and pans
to just pump it into that.
Well one of my favorite things about the new kitchen
is the huge breakfast bar that we now have.
It used to go up here our breakfast bar,
and it actually made the whole room feel a lot smaller
and now we have so much space for the boys
to sit here and eat.
That's the only place they really sit now,
we don't even use the table.
All the boys line up there on these stools.
We found these stools up on John Lewis in the end.
We decided to go for like a fake leather
because we thought it'd be great for kids
to be able to wipe them down.
And yeah, the boys just love eating there
and having breakfast.
And then on the end here, we have two little stools.
These were the ones that we've always had.
We got them from the Dunelm's.
And so me and Matt normally perch on these ones,
(kids screaming)
and the three kids sit in there.
It's funny how we made the breakfast bar so much bigger,
we went out both ways, that way and that way.
And we were worried about what that was gonna do
to the space, but it's actually made the whole room
feel so much bigger, and a much more usable space.
So yes, that is pretty much it
when it comes to our new kitchen.
Asking any other questions you have in the comments below.
I hope you really like it, we love it,
and it's definitely gonna to keep us here in this house
for a few more years.
So yes, thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon.
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