Kitchen: Before and After

This last week Chris has been fixing up our kitchen, it so needed doing. Basically the oven we had only worked successfully if you like burnt food, and we had this stove top which was OK but the right hand rings didn't get very hot. So we decided to get a new oven and stove top as one. While we were at it we thought why not do the counter tops too, oh and the sink.
Excuse the pictures, I couldn't get good ones as Chris said he was going to start on Monday and then Friday afternoon when I came in from playing with the kids I found this. In the second picture take a look at the sink, this is the only picture of our old sink but trust me its awful. After a long hard week of not having a kitchen and having to go to the doctors because all the dust made my skin crazy, we now have this:

I am very happy with the finish result. I also used my oven for the very first time, we had a friend over for dinner who is on TDY here I wanted to give him a nice home cooked meal. BUT, I haven't used an oven in years. So I call the person everyone calls in a crisis, my best friend (My Mum). We decided on a meat pie with mash potatoes and Broccoli and of course Ahh bisto, all of which was made from scratch (including the pastry, thanks Kristi) and it was a complete success. Shame on me for not taking a picture but I felt a little weird in front of company taking a picture of the dinner. Thank you Mum you are the B.E.S.T, love you!!!!