Kitchen Work

 The snowy weather got me started on a long-overdue project--redoing some things in the kitchen. I talked about it a while back, but the work has been creeping forward in between working on my taxes, painting furniture, pricing things for the booths and dealing with keeping things going in general in this cold, snowy weather.

Sunlight makes some interesting patterns!

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But it is coming along. The base cabinets are painted, the doors are refinished and the insides are painted and reorganized. We will start on the countertops next week. All the tile will come off and be replaced. We bought the new tile last week and I'm excited about how it will look.

I took everything down and dusted! Yay me!

But before we get into that, we have to finish the big pantry cupboard. It was an old white when I got it about 5 years ago, and much abused. I put it straight into use because we just needed it that badly. I've wanted to paint it but never got around to it. You know how that goes. But the other day I noticed that under the old white paint was some pretty wood, so...now the doors are off and Larry is stripping them, and I will be painting the outside of the big cabinet the same red as the base cabinets. I organized the inside a few weeks back, and amazingly it's still like that. Just wait til summer though...all that will change, I'm sure.

And when that's done, and the countertop is done, we'll move on to the new pantry cabinet. Right now it's an odd green color which I actually like okay, but I think we're going to make it the same as the others and refinish the door to its original oak color and paint the outside Tuscan Red. The funny thing about this cabinet is that someone put the door on backwards! The inside of it is lovely wood, beveled. I think they were trying to make it look more modern.

I am really enjoying the changes in the kitchen. It might not look like much is different to anyone else but I am just loving being able to find things, and have been cooking and baking more just because it's more fun.

Can't wait to get it all finished--then it's on to the bathroom!


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