Who needs a kitchen, anyway? Here we are a few minutes after our closing. Don't we look happy? Sure, we just wrote the 2nd biggest check of our life. But we had this nice new house, some champagne, and what was a workable kitchen.
One of the biggest selling points of this house was that it wasn't a raised ranch. Not that there's anything wrong with the architectural phenomenon that is the raised ranch. We just decided that it wasn't "us." Another selling point was that everything in the house was fine as it was. We'd just be changing things "to taste." As it turns out, we decided that one of the best ways to make the house our home was to take on the kitchen as our first big project. Matt had some really good ideas - new cabinetry, an island, a recessed refrigerator. There was a wall separating the kitchen from the den. It had a larger doorway and a "window" cut out. We thought that it would make a huge difference to knock that wall down (our realtor Pat's favorite suggestion - "just knock this wall down!") and blur the line between our kitchen and our den. Make it a kitchden! That's right, I just invented a word.
The previously existing kitchen was, as you can see, fine. Functional. Dated.
See where the wall used to be? Yeah...that's gone. Still, not a bad kitchen, right? Sure, the stove and dishwasher are a touch on the old side. The fridge could use a replacement. The tile isn't all that bad, is it? The cabinets are actually pretty nice, too. Solid wood, and they'd look great with newer hardware. Well...how about we just blow the whole thing up and start over!
Where'd that kitchen go?!?! Erika and I arrived one day, ready to tear down wallpaper or sand stuff or paint or something and someone took our kitchen! So we went to the cabinet place last week and chose some nice new custom cabinets out, asked about granite countertops, and held our breath for the quote. We're turning blue right about now waiting for that oh-so-reasonable price tag to arrive. We might have to hold off on that trip to Fiji.
1 comment:
Everything looks beautiful! And sometimes you need decisions to be made externally (like ripping out the kitchen and covering over windows). Otherwise you'd still be deciding what to keep.
Your wallpaper was the worst I have ever seen. Dining room looks great.
Can't wait to have Thanksgiving in your new kitchen and use your Ceramica plates in your new dining room! Love, Mom
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