The varnished truth.

  This week it has been the week of the varnishing of the kitchen. Kim is jetting off from Charles de Gaule airport on wednesday to spend some weeks with Alyson and wanted to complete the renovation before she went. She has been toiling like a forcenée to finish in time and has just succeeded. First we had to clear the kitchen of its furniture and as it is also our normal living room this was a task in itself. It has all been packed into the lounge, which looks like a furniture sale-room . She then sanded off the old vitrificateur with a hand-held electric sander and we had dust galore for several days. Once the dust had settled and been vacuumed away, it was the time to re-varnish.
   However it`s not so easy as that. Our large kitchen is at the centre of the house. The front door to the street opens off it, the stairs to the grenier and bedrooms also together with the door to the entrée and bathroom and the rear exit to the cour. If you varnish it all at once you are effectively debarred from access to these areas. A complicated plan of leaving narrow corridors had to be devised. Also, the animals had to be excluded on pain of death...The coffee machine migrated here and there also the electric kettle.

  However, all`s well that ends well and we can begin to re-colonise our smart kitchen. Kim has done a fine job and we are both very proud of the restored area!

   Bye for now, Kim has woken up and come down for coffee and to admire her work.