IT won’t win any awards and it’s even more unlikely to appear on the popular TV show Grand Designs.

Michael and Joyce Sargent’s kitchen has drawers they can’t put anything in because a worktop has been installed over them, and nowhere to store pots and pans.

The great-grandparents even face the indignity of having to keep their vegetables on the floor because of the poor design.

And these problems and others come after council workers gave the room a “makeover”.

Now council chiefs are refusing to say whether they will put things right.

The couple moved into their Southampton bungalow in September last year and asked the council for more cupboards after they saw some of their neighbours in Outer Circle had new kitchens installed by the council.

The council agreed but almost as soon as work began Mr Joyce, 75, who worked as a kitchen fitter in the 1980s, realised something was wrong when he saw a council worker fit the worktop over the drawer.

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“When the kitchen fitter was here I said to him can you move the drawer and the cupboard underneath the worktop, but he said he has had to do what is on his job sheet,” Mr Joyce told the Daily Echo.

“It makes me feel that they are sticking up their fingers at us, it is very unprofessional.”

The Coxford ward's independent councillor, Don Thomas, is calling on the council to give the Sargents a new kitchen.

He said: “It is clear that the worktop and cupboards have been placed to be unable for the homeowners to use.

“This kitchen is a dog’s dinner and as a responsible landlord it is time for the council to start again and redesign and replace this kitchen to the same standard of everyone else.”

Southampton City Council would not say whether it would send workmen back to the Sargents’ one-bedroom bungalow to fix the problem kitchen.

Cllr Warwick Payne, Cabinet member for housing and sustainability, said: “We are committed to maintaining good standards in all of our housing stock and have an efficient repairs service and home refurbishment programme with a set criteria in place to allow our tenants to benefit consistently and fairly.”