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Hell's Kitchen - India Style -

This is the material of all good contemporary TV programmes on making improvements to your home. If it wasnt so lamentable it would be hysterically funny.
My landlady, bless her, decided to modernise my kitchen so she brought in an outfit called Italian Kitchens Indianised. The name says it all. Several weeks into the project we move into the house and there is a beautiful black granite work surface which looks fab. Just dont look too closely at what is below.The drawers are so flimsy you think they will buckle with the weight of your knives and forks and kitchen implements. Within a week of being in the house, the wooden trim on a drawer is coming unstuck, the handle has dropped off another and one of the lower cupboards has decided that life is far better open than shut. No amount of shifting the items in it or the centre of gravity will persuade it to close.The cupboard under the sink was fitted with a bin but it wont close as it bumps into the other half of the door. Meantime the sink is leaking already. The edges of the cupboards have got gaps because well, because they do, and the measurements didnt quite reach that far.The skirting boards are made from left over wood of some other project and some cupboards are recessed while others are aligned. Even she rang to complain to them and now we are waiting in the vain hope of a makeover ....