Emma - Our Em In The West
Hi all!
I've been a grateful reader of renotalk for quite a few months now and have learnt so many things from here! I am hoping that by starting a T-blog, the discussions in it could also somehow help other people as well.
My husband and I are "newlyweds" (when does one disqualify from being newlyweds? 1 year? 2 years? before kids?) and were lucky enough to spend a year away in London straight after getting married, where he studied for his Masters and I worked and also kept our tiny student
Speaking of Ikea, we went down to Ikea (again!?) over the weekend!
For my kitchen, I was really inspired by Ikea's new METOD kitchen range, with their Blum fittings and also their door fronts and selection of countertops. I've never been very fond of the granite/natural stone type of countertop (nothing against them, I just don't particularly like them) and as my mood board photo of the kitchen shows, I'm quite interested in butcher-block style countertops (which is surprisingly really difficul