My Man & My Kitchen
Thursday, January 26, 2012
My man is back and that means my kitchen renovation is closer to getting completed. P had been away for 5 days and I was counting down the days for his return. Crazy enough this is the longest we have been apart in 11 years (gasp!). After 2 minutes of hugging I was back talking about our endless kitchen project. I busted out the lighting catalogs to share the lights I dig for our new island, showed him the billions of shoe molding I painted for him to cut and nail, and we walked through our next steps.
My kitchen has been a work in progress; and at a slow turtle pace. And our vision has taken on a whole new feel. Here is the update:
After busting down the wall between our family room and kitchen, and the new wood flooring went in, we had our cabinets painted a creamy gray shade. We let the cabinet doors cure for about two weeks. During that time I realized I am not a big fan of open cabinets-I just can’t handle it.
Our next step was to tackle the island. I wanted a huge island but P was concerned about the size. Of course, I got my way……..
So instead of an island we purchased a cherry red corvette! We laughed the whole way home with our new island in the back of our SUV. As P assembled it we laughed harder-how dare we do this to our light kitchen palette. He did an a-mazing job fitting all the pieces of the island together so I am now nicknaming him ‘p-mazing’.
It is 5′x6′ and can store more of my ‘never use but need’ kitchen food maker stuff. We even have a garbage can pullout drawer.
P did get something he has been asking for, a butcher block top. It was the perfect topper to tone down the red corvette.
P cut two 8′ wood tops down to the size we needed, then glued them together.
So here we are. And with one turtle foot in front of the other, we will get kitchen wallpaper pasted up (hey Jim, when can you fit us in?)
And new island lighting (did you notice they are in the wrong spots right now?)
So P, if you are reading this, I just sketched out twenty foot built ins-care to get started on them (laughing inside).