Finally… A New Kitchen!

After several months of finding and conquering our inner most dark places, feats of strength, tests of wills, our new kitchen is 99% complete.

The remaining 1% = toe kicks and paint touch-up around the tile and grout.

Cabinets: Tall people are helpfull.

Jon just hung out shaking his head, as usually.

Keyton made sure everything was in order.

Measure and Mark.

Does this look infected?

Dave making sure the cabinet is stable.

You’re tall.

Dave’s leverage was key.

Men.

Panel discussion. get it? panel.

Cabinets, pre-doors

admiring greatness.

Cabinet door install.

Drilling holes for the hardware.

Doors, Doors, Doors.

This hinge was backwards…

One wall down.

Our kitchen or premarital counseling?

So Sunday we drove down to IKEA to finally pick up our kitchen!!!  After spending way too much time shopping through the actual store and planning Miles’ room we finally went to get the boxes of which will soon be our kitchen cabinets.  approximately 50 boxes of kitchen cabinets flat packed ready for us to spend several hours just putting it together.  Are we really gonna need pre-marital counseling?  As I stare at the back of the u-haul I am reminded of all those christmas movies where the mom and dad are yelling at each other while trying to get the christmas tree straight in the stand. This kitchen will be our tree and the tiled floor our stand.  Hopefully we won’t kill each other.  Here’s to great kitchens!

Old Kitchen! You’re going down.

Here are some before pics of our kitchen. Our home was built in 1956, and i don’t think it has ever had any kind of upgrade done. Charming? yes. Surviving another year? no.