He bought the materials and made the doors in those days you could not buy doors except as part of a fitted kitchen how things have changed.
It was also before the days of small lights under units in the kitchen and he went all over the neighbourhood finding small fluorescent tubes and built the casings for them from scratch.
In his present home he has built a raised flower bed in the front garden, rewired the house, put in a new kitchen though this time he bought the units and just installed them.
He also reinstated the open fire in the lounge which even involved putting a chimney pot back on the roof.
Last weekend he put a new fence up in between giving me a hand with my projects.
He put my sink unit in about 8 years ago after my mum struggling for a couple of years with a sink unit only propped up on a couple of pieces of wood after we had a flood in the kitchen which eventually rotted the old sink unit. Because our sink is imperial (inches) and modern units are now metric he had to cut and carve and adapt the unit.
We had recently had new furniture at work and he had bought some of the old plan tables out of the engineering department which were white old fashion melamine and he made one of those into work top in the kitchen which again had rotted during the flood.
Here is the sink unit he adapted and fitted and work tops he made are to the left and right.
Here he is building the front wall/raised flower bed at his house.
The finished wall
He also put in a the cooker for me that I bought on Ebay
Here is the fireplace and open fire that he reinstated he made the mantlepiece from scratch as well from MDF and then painted it.