#6 Tiny Cottage Kitchen Renovation: Tiles and Curtains

welcome to Casa Blue Hills we found a cottage we love in a beautiful location in the Spanish Hills and in this episode we take a major step forward in our renovation as usual Rob's working very hard yeah I've had enough now and obviously so am I but although things are going really well in the cottage we've disced a problem in the garden more about that later when Rob tiled the new shower he built we got the tiles from one of the small towns not too far away but there was nothing we like there this time so we had to go all the way to Leroy Merlin in meria city for these tiles anyway this is the layout of the cottage you can see where the kitchen is and these are the ti we did have well let's get on with the transformation okay so ding don't mind tiling I put that one on already I'm afraid because I needed to work out how far this came off the wall so I could put this tile to cut the hole for the Taps uh I went ahead and I actually did cut the hole and you end up little a little disc that looks like something like that yeah first one I did I cut it from the back because I'm not Tyler and you ended up with I don't know if you can see that yeah for me then into to so there you go so redid it cut the next one from the front and you just got a nice smooth hole not worried about what the back looks like it's nice and smooth and on there anyway goes one of these so you got quite a bit of wiggle room yes just getting the hole one so that sits on quite nice you got lines there that are nice and level that level with this so I can glue that on once that's on I can measure the next one up I just get some masking tape measure down and out and that will give us a rough place to cut the hole right sure there's a proper tool that you can actually buy for doing this with but um yeah bit of a bodged one together really it need something to hold the toil well we don't know we're going to use it I think in four times so basically got a load of scrap wood out the garage it's going to end up as [Music] firewood and I just need to make something that's going to hold the tile in nice and tight so that when we drill a hole through it again it's probably a right tool for this I just use a COR drill so price your cord on pretty much where you want it and then use scrap wood around [Music] it to make something then I'll stop the C drill from dancing around too [Music] much say there's probably a right way of doing this but this has always seemed to work for [Music] me there we go couple of minutes later got a nice clean hole so it's all chipped on the back but that's not an issue main thing is it's nice and tidy on the front wonderful there we go ready to go on the wall very good and as you can see move that other way look at that mine's are pretty pretty smack on so we'll get some glued on uh first ones certainly here going to be a bit tricky cuz there another level surface down here it's all all bits of adive and all bits of stuff that kind of holding the sink on so it's we'll have to make our own level okay so is this here then this here is just there as a secure for that to get that nice and level again there's nothing there you can see how thick that is that I've had to put to build it up to get this tire level but if you don't get them level to begin with yes it's just going to get worse and worse as you go up further on so I'm just interrupting for a minute to show you this little video I found on my phone which shows the old wooden Hood thing that was here when we bought the house so yeah rustic Earths or not it's a patent tile and it's quite obviously there's lots of straight lines on there yeah so if you get it out and it comes into the corner you want the pattern to continue around the corner it's worth a f to get it level to begin with to have it looking good when it's finished so there was so many jobs to do I'm not sure what to do first I decid to start sanding a small table out of the garage which I want to bring into use in the dining room but I don't get much done because a small friend appears [Music] so we can get offered [Music] up it's got okay so you off few that you put on or a pain in the bum but it's a pain in the bum that you've just got to put up with long finished so I can come and fress you I can push you can't I hey know Smasher right you want to come and have a look at this tiing have you finished it yeah you're not coming in though look at you look at this dat is that you are very hot aren't you you are hot you would right come on than there you go hold done that's flipping wonderful that is that's so lovely it looks perfect yeah just got to grout it tomorrow tidy up up here and around the edges we filler and then tomorrow we can also put the towels down on here sink back on need to stay on so can put the sink on at least we have the water on in the bathroom these need to stay on just just to make sure that none of these stuff moves job's done that's so lovely I'm so pleased with this these are the tiles of my dreams that is so lovely that 10 out of 10 very good done good I'll going have with me yourself a nice cold pint of water then to celebrate after a bit of a sit down we head outside because Rob isn't the only one that needs water yesterday when we walk past the Fig Tree we saw something a bit worrying so it has been really hot here just recently it's been pretty hot um for a long time and there hasn't been much rain apart from one big storm uh which was about 3 weeks ago I think okay so what we know notice what we noticed can't see them oh yeah so there's the Fig Tree and we noticed that there were a lot of little tiny figs on the floor little tiny um rip looking ones so are they did we feel them okay that's not completely right let's see this one um so even if you wanted to eat a tiny fig you couldn't eat that because they are they're hard so obviously we are not experts on figs and fig trees but um we think probably we need to give it quite a lot of water so the figs get bigger before they all start falling off hello I've brought you gifts I brought you your big hat choc choc eyes no okay okay I bought you water oh no you've just been to the stream yeah okay well this is a container you can drink water out of and then the final wonderful gift a mandarin chocolate uh no salt okay right we need to go to the gym man I feel like I've been to the gym I'm bathed in sweat anyway bit of unnecessary detail there grouting day grouting yipp great grouting okay these pots everywhere they're great aren't they yeah well we need something to mix it in course oh what color grout is it first gray grout it is gray yeah this is interesting cuz I've never done stuff in different colors before no cuz all their toes have always been white that we stuff in need to rip that out a knife on that this morning I realized it won't take long for Rob to finish the tiles so I need to get on and make the under sync curtains very quickly these are the sort of little curtains I'm trying to make made myself a little ruler and I've marked the measurements I need on the side of it so that's really good just need a piece of paper now with the measurements on okay have the [Music] measurements take into all the little and we chose gray because of the Gray Line yeah well they matches there so it matches I'm just work it keep working it in till it's nice and [Music] full well Mr asrey how is it going in the kitchen it looks quite a lot different since when I last saw you yeah how B enough now oh but what a thing of beauty and Delight yeah just i' wait for everything to dry and wipe the Towes off clean the sink all up here has gone really sticky so every time you touch it with anything it uh yeah makes a right mess so I'm leaving that till everything has gone completely dry but for now oh wow beautiful time for a cold drink just need to run a bead of silicon down the back beit of silicon down there and [Music] yeah okay let's take the bits of tape off because um I said before I didn't have any pins I actually found about six pins but um they're all rusty because this is sewing box I don't even know where I've had it from um so I've been using tape uh instead of pins right and from the fet here I got qua detina C and C cord which is actually wire right come here qu right let's have a [Music] [Music] look anyway right so let's pull that along okay [Music] okay so this this wire is a bit stretchy so I have measured um where I think that should come up to let's cut that all right you have to screw in the Little Hook can I do this without oh yes maybe and here we have it then the first part of our kitchen renovation is now complete tiles we've got a few cracks um just to fill in but that won't take a minute that won't take a minute when we can um find some filler in the shop which we haven't got time to do at the moment but there we go got the beautiful tiles and the little under under syn curtains which are traditional in oldfashioned Spanish kitchens there we go then quite pleased with that what do you say yeah they look fantastic yeah you please they do certainly something I couldn't do I couldn't mind out well I did sew them by hand so it was um fairly timec consuming but um I think that just goes to show dearest husband that we are a pretty good team yeah they okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] h [Music] [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]