Update: A new year and the kitchen refurbishment at The Willows is complete.  Susan is particularly pleased with the useful vertical drawer designed by Jim Baldry to fill the awkward space to the left of the gas cooker and has found the four drawer unit to the left of the Aga much more useful than a cupboard ... one happy bunny!

The Willows  Cretingham is a 200 hundred year old cottage where A James Baldry are assisting owners Susan and Peter Massey in a progressive kitchen refurbishment.  The kitchen layout is constrained by the Aga and as there is little wall space wall mounted cupboards are not really an option.  The new kitchen units have been made in tulip wood, a surprisingly light (in both colour and weight) hardwood popular with boat builders.  Doors and cupboards have "crazed" porcelain knobs and the units will be completed by composite granite work surfaces and the owners applying  their own finishing oil.

Work begun with a base being made for the spectacular butchers' block Susan and Peter had acquired.  Jim Baldry will level the block and fix a crack in it.  Further work has included this useful drawer suggest by Jim that fills an awkward space at the side of the Pog gas cooker used in the summer.

The owners are retaining the kitchen furniture on the opposite wall though they will change the finish, possibly painted, and Jim will consult and create a solution to this overcrowded cupboard.