Little Helper

 The new counter is in and so fabulous! I can't wait to get some pictures of it. And the girls' room is also painted! It is very, very pink.

Until then, the scraping of the wallpaper continues:

Me: What are you doing?
K: I'm pulling off this paper on the wall. 'Cause is is very, very ugly.

Starting to Look Like a Kitchen!

So, in the last month, a few things have happened. First, we have sold our existing big city house. YAY!! It was a stressful process that involved 22 showings in 10 days, two offers that fell through, and practically every meal eaten out. However, on July 6, we will officially be done with the old, and ready for the new!

Our oldest made her First Communion on her birthday. And I completed my Masters. April was a busy, busy month. Now that school is officially over, the real work must be stepped up a bit!

Now, on to house progress. You may remember what the kitchen look like when we first bought the house:

Lovely.

And shortly after we gutted it:

All opened up

And torn all the way to the studs.

The ceiling eventually came down too. 

I will not bore you with the middle action. It involves wiring, plumbing, and drywall. Mudding and sanding drywall is not fun. Not fun to do, not fun to talk about, not fun to read about.

So we are skipping it. Right to where the cabinets are now set on the floor. And the walls are up. 

Can you see my vision, yet? Because I can!

 

 

(VISION)

The layout will look somewhat similar to the above. I have several pictures on Pinterest of kitchens that I have found that will work for the layout that we have to work with. This is the general finished idea, with a few appliance changes, and pretty white cabinets. 

 These are the cabinets from the house. We have been able to reuse the, only in a slightly different layout. the stove goes in the big empty space on the big blank wall. The sink goes under the window, with the dishwasher directly beside it. The refrigerator will go on the wall you cannot see, along with a pantry cabinet, to be built in the future. By using what we had, we saved a fortune on new cabinets. The quartz counter top will be installed this week. Quartz is very similar to granite, except that you do not have to seal it. Ever. That is fabulous. 

Nutmeg counter top

The counter top was a steal. We purchased it from a reminent sale at the installer here in town, the same installer that the big stores use and who would have installed it for us wherever we had bought it. By picking out a reminent, we ended up saving well over $3000 on our counter.  For that price, I was more than happy to pick out a slightly different color counter than I originally would have chosen. I think it will look fabulous with white cabinets, don't you?

The counter gets installed this Tuesday. I will be there to take pictures of the beautiful product. In the meantime, we will be picking out paint this weekend and heading up there as soon as I wake up tomorrow. It is coming together quite nicely! I cannot wait to see it done!