Monday, January 4, 2010

before and after

after months of work, the kitchen is pretty much done!! in all actuality it was just a few actual days of effort, but when you try to do a kitchen re-do in 1 hour spurts at night after the kids go to bed, it takes a lot longer than in should. i barely remember what the old kitchen looked like. -
to refresh our memories, here's a before pic of the old, dingy, dark cave kitchen:
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and here is after! includes new appliances, new counters, new faucet, painted cabinets, painted back splash, and new cabinet hardware.
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it's not perfect, nor is it top-of-the line gourmet. but for the amount we spent, it looks darn good.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It looks awesome!! I am so impressed i can't even come up with something wittier to say!!!!!! When does Jeremy start his new job? Summer?

EG said...

Good work! okay, tell me about the bags in your countertop compost bin - do you throw everything on the compost pile still in the bag?

kiwi said...

thank you thank you :) we love how it came out - too bad we're leaving!

@jodi - jeremy starts in july, so in a perfect world we'll start the move in late june. but of course that will all depend on selling the house, etc. and we all know how that can go!

@EG - yup - they are bio bags that degrade in the composter. we toss the whole thing in. they seem to break down pretty fast (sometimes, even before we bring it outside!) much better than having to clean rotting food out of the composter all the time!