OUR TUSCAN KITCHEN RENOVATION!

we're Nikki and Carlo and we live in patano Italy except we also just bought a house in Tuscany which we're currently renovating so we live there too join us as we turn this house and Olive Grove into a dream home and get to grips with living in two different parts of Italy last week while I was off having fun in England with my family Carlo was hard at work work back in Tuscany getting all sorts of odd jobs [Music] done he also took the executive decision to paint the kitchen backsplash area a strange lilu pink which was not quite what I had envisioned but I love the effect I love the effect that it is it's exactly what I wanted for the whole house but I just didn't know how to do it so now I'm just I've watered down like the remnants of this pain and I'm just putting it over the top and rubbing it in and I think it's working yeah and that's exactly what I wanted yeah it's more peit yeah definitely there's nothing in there but it's just [Music] enough I haven't quite finished this wall as you can see it's darker this side than it is that side that is because I ran out of paint yesterday so I'm going to finish it tomorrow morning early before miracal gets here tomorrow we are installing the kitchen I'm very excited let me give you a closer up look of this though originally I was going to wait until the kitchen was here so I could decide what color to do but I've just gone ahead and done it and I've used the excess paint from the wall outside and I wanted it to look lime washed um like an old Italian Villa I'll insert a photo from a villa in patano that was my in insiration for this I think I've done fairly well um I just need to finish this bit up here cuz I literally ended up painting with colored water by this point so I had to run out and buy some new paint yesterday and I will do that in the morning and hopefully when we install the kitchen we'll probably move this table and put this out the back somewhere um to be defined later on and then probably bring in sofa that's over there at the moment and bring that back in here shift this more into the middle of the room have the other sofa there and then maybe there'll be space for a couple of armchairs over here armchairs which we don't actually have but this afternoon we're going to go out we're going to go to some garden centers and we're going to get some plants and we're going to look and see if we can find some nice big vases I'd like to three vases here um I think they'd look really nice with something green in against the wall there this area will eventually have some um like sofa areas out here and we also need some plants some trailing plants for the walls here because the previous owners have come around and collected their tortoises finally but they've also taken all the plants that were on this wall with them um including there was a little watering can with a flower in it there they've taken that they've even taken the little vase that was here that I'd put some pansies in they taken it all and they've even dug up a Wisteria uh from this little flower bed here and taking that with them too so we want to replace a few things what can I say so thanks to my friend Susie we found this place that sells VES and there's some over there that I love the look of but they're very expensive so we might keep looking for a while we've left the VES for now come to this um Garden Center to have a look at the plant and finally we found some Bugan Villa we haven't really seen much Bugan Villa in Tuscany hlya we're just going to have a quick look around see if we can find anything we want some climbing stuff and something to put in the vases if we buy any this is a good place we found some wow really exciting plants doesn't have a price on it this one but we've got a little Maple cuz there actually was a maple in front of the house but they obviously killed it and see see lemon trees I know he wants a lemon [Music] tree now we're looking at the ban Villas they're about 30 35 these big tall plants this is what they look like various colors and I like this color here sort of like an orangey faded red well we filled the car with plants there are also two dogs buried in here somewhere not sure where see if we can find them they probably all moved over to the front ind's going to drive Holly's going to be co-pilot and Mommy will sit on the roof okay good morning today is a very important day today is Kitchen day our kitchen is finally arriving and we're going to install it and M Mir should be here around about 9:00 it's just gone halfast 7 in the morning we've got to empty out the temporary kitchen and I've got a little bit of painting to finish as well so we've got to get cracking cuz we've got about an hour an hour and a half before he arrives with the kitchen I haven't actually seen the finished kitchen yet the last time I saw it was the last time you saw it so a couple of weeks ago and I have no idea what it actually looks like so fingers crossed I also have a little bit of painting that I need to finish doing before Miracle comes so first of all I'm GNA get all this stuff [Music] down know where I'm going to put it [Music] [Music] [Music] see up and I need water can you help me yeah the walls were a little bit too dark so I'm just lightening them up again basically with just a wash of a pale color and then just rubbing it in so it's got like the old St Palazo effect that's what I'm hoping to achieve anyway if it doesn't work I can always paint over it [Music] at our home in patano we renovated our kitchen just 2 years ago there I chose a light colorful fitted kitchen with a U-shaped countertop and IKEA [Music] cabinets here in Tuscany I wanted to try something completely different unfitted units natural wood handmade I hope that the ideas in my head work in real life I guess we're going to find out very soon we dismantled our temporary Kitchen in about half an hour when we bought it it only cost us a total of €25 to install and has served us well for the last 3 months if you haven't been watching our videos for about 2 years you might not have seen our kitchen renovation video from posetano and I highly recommend that you go and watch that one because renovating a kitchen in posetano with 500 Steps From the road to the house is a totally different ball game to this this is just easy peasy it is one of the most easy things we've ever done but the one in patana we had to get together a group of about 10 men to get all the stuff down to the house and it was it was a real feat but we did it and we filmed it all and I will leave the video linked up here somewhere for you to watch if you haven't seen it already [Music] [Applause] [Music] better yeah [Music] okay [Music] [Music] fore okay [Applause] spee foreign [Music] foree [Music] fore spee fore fore [Laughter] speee for this is to go around the extractor fan where those blue tiles are it's going to completely cover the tiles and completely transform it fore spe for foree for foreign speech look at [Music] that the sink is from Ikea the sink we managed to get it was was the last sink in the whole of North Italy I checked all the Ikeas and there was one in about two months ago so I ran and got that the T was not available in Italy I ended up ordering it from Ikea in England and I P it over in my suitcase last [Music] week so the legs on the um oven on the cooker are adjustable so we've just made them higher so that they and he's checking on car he's not normally lying on the floor arguing and arguing [Music] [Music] for foreign speech foreign [Music] for spee fore [Music] hey we are having a few problems with the sink and while Carlo is dealing with that I am making a mess and but I'm also cooking and I'm using the bathroom sink to throw out some prawns don't tell Carlo I've changed because I just washed hly and I got absolutely soaked and it's very hot so put something nice and cool on on I'm making um pasta with asparagus and shrimp and I'm just sort of bumbling around trying to figure out where everything is and how I can do it without using the sink but it's all seems to be working so I'm frying off some onion I've just cooked some asparagus for about 5 minutes just so it's soft and I'm squishing it up it's supposed to be um blitzed in a blender but I don't have one yet one arriving now think these quite good one 2 3 so we have left the kitchen and we've bought some vses a lot quite a lot of vses some plastic and some terracotta that's obviously a plastic one and another ban Villa so that one is going to go against this column here in the sunshine that will go in there and then rather than filling this big one full of Earth we got a little thing and we'll put something like that in Shuffle it until I'm happy but that's sort of more or less what I wanted and then the square ones will go they'll go there with the B inside come on froma because that needs to be at the back somewhere that's s see while Carlo is playing with the plants he's actually taken the Suzuki and he's gone to get Earth to fill some of the vases with I don't know where he's gone I'm playing around with the furniture again so um originally my idea was that this island would be big enough to seat up to eight people which is which means we can move the big table somewhere else and I've just moved it I forgot that I was filming so I've just moved it so there's a big empty space there so now I'm going to have another reshuffle and I wanted to do this on my own before I came back but I don't think I can get the sofa through the doorway on my [Music] own maybe [Music] okay how did we get it in here how did we get it in [Music] so annoying when I can't do things [Music] alone did [Music] it right is it [Music] now and here we go it is looking good it's not quite finished yet but it looks pretty good to me [Music] we need to put the little skirting boards in around the back here and along the back here there's going to be a couple of shelves going up there there'll be something there but we're not sure what yet and we have yet again moved everything around and put a little desk in for now which is quite handy and I'm really happy with [Music] it good morning today is a very important important today good morning today is a very important day [Music] cat oh dear good morning today is a very important day [Music] no [Music] no where my cloth [Music] no hey fore speech spee speech [Music] n [Music]

Channel: Nicki Positano

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Length: 24min 11sec (1451 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2024