Kitchen Upgrades

Recently we've been working on redecorating the kitchen.

Over the last 10 months we have slowly replaced the cooker/oven and microwave, and in the last week we've repainted and rebuilt one corner with new IKEA units.

I've been recording it all with the GoPro, and have ended up with 24,000 photos totalling 77Gb! My 7 year old MacBook Pro is struggling to process them into a video, and the upload will take a while, so here are some photos of before, during and after:

Before

Saturday 10th August

Monday 12th August

Tuesday 13th August

Thursday 15th August

Saturday 17th August

Sunday 18th August
Finished!

I will post the full video soon.

Very Effektiv Garbage & Recycling Bins

I've seen something similar to this a while ago on the internet, but I can't remember where it was now. Then I saw this on IKEAHackers.net - Very Effektiv Garbage & Recycling Bins:

I have to do this to the kitchen for the food waste recycling. I'm fed up of the small brown plastic bin that Bristol Council provide, and this is an almost perfect solution!

IKEA hack: Decorating a SPONTAN notice board

Today me and Becky went to IKEA for some inspiration and (as usual) ended up buying some stuff (it's impossible not to in IKEA)

Not so much a technology hack, but I still think this is worth mentioning. We previously bought a SPONTAN magnetic notice board, and this time spotted a little tip tag in the showroom.

We thought we'd give it a try. Becky found some nice CECILIA fabric that was cheap, and with the help of some magnets we stuck it on.

 Before

After

For the full process/instructions