Our Kitchen So Far...

Our kitchen is our last big thing to do on our house and I am beyond excited to get it done. Excited enough that I may be becoming a nag to Bryan about when he is getting things done!

Last weekend Bryan took out the chimney that was behind a cabinet in the kitchen. By taking it out (we don't use it - we don't have a fireplace anymore) we gain about 16 inches that we will use to put the refrigerator in. What we thought was going to be a couple hours job turned into a several hours job because there were more bricks that we anticipated. But thankfully we have boys who know how to work hard (with bribery of course) and man did they work hard! Bryan would chisel out each brick one by one, and the boys would haul them out to the "drop zone" on the deck. It was hard work - the bricks were heavy - even for me - and really dusty. We estimate there were about 300 or more bricks! We paid the boys for their work, and boy were they cheap labor!

We have also put in new cabinet door and drawer fronts. On the one side of the kitchen we are keeping the cabinet boxes and just updated the doors and drawers. Bryan has to build the cabinets on the other side of the kitchen because we are completely reconfiguring that side. We will paint the cabinets an antique white when they are all in. We also bought new hardware for the cabinets. Bryan installed new granite countertops (love them!) and a new sink that I also love. You know you are getting old and homebody-ish when a sink tops your list of favorite things! We'll keep you posted as we do more to the kitchen as I know you all are dying to see more pictures!

Here is the old chimney. And a nice picture of Bryan :)

Cole helping. The big wooden box on the left side is the cabinet that was hiding the chimney. It just slid right out!

Rix got the play goggles out because it was all so dusty. They also eventually found sunglasses to wear too. I felt so bad for them. They kept rubbing their eyes and complaning of dust and rocks in their eyes, but they kept working!

Cole makes those goggles look good! Or do the goggles make Cole look good?

Our new cabinet fronts with the hardware. I can't wait for them to be painted, but it also means I'll have to paint them. I hate painting.

Our granite countertops.