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A Gloucester kitchen-diner, back to the joists and opened into an extension

A whole-room job, not just a new kitchen. The ceiling came down to the joists, the floor was dug out and screeded, and the walls were re-plastered before the new kitchen went in.

JonesBuild did this one throughout: stripping out the old kitchen, digging out the floor and laying a new base, the plumbing, plastering and making good, fitting the new units and worktops, laying the herringbone floor, and the decorating, including a wallpapered feature wall.

A single-storey rear extension was also built onto this house, with the old back wall opened through into it.

Electrical work can be arranged as part of the job.

The old kitchen: white units, terracotta floor tiles and a washing machine under a fluorescent strip light
BeforeThe old kitchen
The finished kitchen-diner: dark blue island, oak worktops, a herringbone floor and a wallpapered feature wall
FinishedThe same room as a kitchen-diner

How it got there

  1. The kitchen stripped out, with the old floor coverings lifted and an old fireplace still in the chimney breast

    1 · Strip-outOld kitchen out, floor coverings up

  2. The floor dug out down to the ground beneath, with the walls hacked back

    2 · Floor dug outReady for a new base

  3. The new floor base laid and the walls plastered, with a glazed panel door at the far end

    3 · New baseNew floor base, walls plastered

  4. New kitchen base units going in with an oak worktop on top, the floor protected

    4 · Units inBase units and worktop going in

  5. Dark blue base units with a sink set into the oak worktop under the window

    5 · Sink runSink in under the window

  6. A newly hung dark botanical wallpaper on one wall beside a white panel door

    6 · Feature wallWallpaper hung

  7. Herringbone flooring being laid up to the skirting and a tall unit

    7 · HerringboneNew floor going down

  8. The finished island with an oak top in front of the sink run and dark units

    8 · FinishedIsland and sink run

The ceiling

The ceiling was completely stripped back to the joists, then insulated, boarded and skimmed. These two photos look at the same wall.

  1. Kitchen-diner with the ceiling taken down to the timber joists and the floor dug out, a window on the left and a fireplace on the right

    Down to the joistsCeiling down to the joists, floor dug out

  2. The same wall of the kitchen-diner with a new flat ceiling, plastered and painted walls and a screeded floor

    New ceilingThe same wall with a new flat ceiling

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