The battle of the kitchen cupboards

Went to visit the house on Saturday and my first thought was how over looked we are. I can see the windows in the house opposite and I guess if the people there looked out there windows they could see into our kitchen. It felt a bit odd to me because despite being surrounded by houses and flats here the flats are a little way off and its harder for them to see us as we have bushes and greenery growing which disguises the flats. I know when you are in Mary's garden which is only two along it feels incredibly over looked by the horrible flats so my perception may be self deception.
My second thought was that it seems to be pretty much how we remembered it albeit without the show house dressing....pretty much except in the kitchen above the worktop the only kitchen cupboards are two long narrow units that lift up to open a bit like a garage door only not sliding in. I can barely reach them and was thinking these would be pretty useless to me.

It was when I got home and started thinking I began to realise that there is less than half the units we were expecting!! Where was I to put glassware and crockery? Would I end up with less cupboards than I have in my tiny kitchen at present?

I phoned Bovis yesterday and was dissapointed but not shocked at their first response which was they could give us the name of the manufacturer and we could purchase some ourselves!! Their second response once I pursued this was to say they would ask the site director. They later came back and said they were having problems reaching the narrow units themselves and they would get back to me later.

Its not just reaching the units thats the problem its the lack of proper cupboards. These would hold less than half a normal cupboard and because of the narrowness would only be good for mugs and glasses. What about plates and china? What about casseroles and serving dishes?

I have decided to hold fast and say we will not proceed to completion until we have a satisfactory in our favour decision. They will try and say as they did yesterday that the spec has changed but to my mind this is totally unsatisfactory. If necessary I will delay the completion until after Christmas which might be better for us as we could have christmas here as usual with no worries about getting family to us and back again.

The whole thing is giving me a headache though as I hate all confrontation and just want a peaceful life. I wonder though it I relished the idea of a fight would I get more?

Going back to Saturday it was fun dressed in hard hats and luminous jackets and wearing big boots tramping around our soon to be home with young Andrew who seemed just as excited as us and helped us take pictures and measure for curtains etc.
Work is enormously busy as well and I find I have a permanent headache and occasionally feel dizzy and am permanently tired. I know I look tired and old and my eyes are bloodshot but apart from that am fine!! I am looking forward to the couple of weeks off work even if it will mean packing and more packing.