Kitchen Culmination

Okay, I said I was going to have pictures of the kitchen up last night, but I didn't lose any sleep over avid readers spending hours hitting the refresh button hoping for a new entry. If any of you - and I know you are out there - ever left comments, I would worry a lot more about my blogslack. I was busy last night doing last-minute organizing and gathering of materials for today's class, which I have to leave to teach in an hour. I was busy enjoying the new kitchen, making a mess in it and cleaning it up, putting the kid to sleep, and then fretting over the baby blanket and whether or not there will be enough yarn. But that's another story.

The cabinet guys showed up on schedule yesterday and spent the afternoon doing their job. Everything went smoothly - there was one point when we thought they were going to run short on trim, but we found a leftover piece from the last time they were here out in the garage and crisis was averted. By the time Joe arrived home from work, I had already moved some of my stuff into the newly-installed cabinets. But there's still lots of unpacking and rearranging to do.

I'm okay with all that because....my kitchen is BEAUTIFUL! I'm in love with it and oh-so-happy with how it's turning out. I'm warning you, the pictures you are about to see show the kitchen as it actually is this morning with dishes drying on the counter, boxes waiting to be unpacked, Joe's coffee cup still sitting there and all other manner of junk that represents the normal way we live in our house. The electrician hasn't come to do the undercabinet lighting, the plumbers have to come back and hook up the ventahood over the stove, and Joe still has to install trim around the baseboards and windows. But you'll definitely get the general idea.

First, let me show you the before pictures. This is what the kitchen looked like during our final walk-through before we closed.




And, finally, what you've all been waiting for....