What to do with furniture when getting kitchen done

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We will shortly be planning our kitchen renovation, including new solid wood floors. We will need the whole kitchen gutted, the old floor tiles stripped out, new floor laid and then new kitchen installed. I think this needs to happen sequentially, due to the flooring, and will take 6-7 weeks (from previous experience).

My question is around what to do with the appliances and furniture while this work is being done? We don't have a conservatory or garage, just a small back garden.

We will need to move the stove, dryer, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge, kitchen table and chairs.

Where do we put these during this time? We can put some things in the living room (maybe store the disconnected stove, the (working) fridge and the kitchen chairs in there. What do we do with the table (too big to fit through the house) and other appliances? Do we just put these in the back garden, covered in tarpaulin? But that way, their legs/bottom parts would get wet from the ground.

Am I missing an obvious solution? What did you all do?

If you’ve no room in the house you’ll need to use a storage unit. Hire a van to get it there. But work out the costs involved, if it’s an old table is it worth it?

Or perhaps a friend or neighbour has a garage you could store something in?

We pitched a tent in the garden! A bit dodgy but so much cheaper than carting everything off to storage. Better in summer than winter though!

I love this idea! Very clever.

We ended up getting the removal people to come and take most of our stuff away and store it. Wasn’t as expensive as I feared it might be so well worth getting a quote.