Roseyland

Hello blog, I’ve missed you. I’d give you a long list of excuses as to why I haven’t visited in a while, but I know you wouldn’t understand. You are after all, just a blog. I will give you one excuse though. I’ve been remodeling my kitchen. Well, more accurately, I’ve been watching other people remodel my kitchen. If you remember this post, I’ve been trying to decide what to do with my kitchen for some time now. I finally got around to getting an estimate and getting it (mostly) done. Here is how it went. The first step was getting my kitchen completely cleaned out. This took a good four hours. I don’t know who put all that crap in my kitchen, but when I find you, it’s on. Here is a picture of my sad empty kitchen.

Here is the contents of my kitchen relocated to my second bedroom. I also threw away 4 large trash bags of stuff. No I should not have donated it to goodwill, because trust me, nobody wanted it.

Here are my brand new appliances waiting to be installed in my kitchen. The cat thought there might have been a problem with the top of the refrigerator, but it turns out it’s fine.

This is my kitchen with everything stripped out of it and most of the new floor in place. They did all this in less than 8 hours. Impressive. It is amazing how small the room felt with nothing in it. It felt like my kitchen was about the size of a walk in closet.

This is a picture about half way through the remodel. I was worried that the ceiling height cabinets would make the room feel closed in, but I love them now. I didn’t realize how cheap my old cabinets were until I saw the new ones. They are so pretty, sometimes I go into the kitchen just to touch them. Wait… forget I just said that.

Here is a picture with more of the cabinets in place.

Here is a picture with everything except the counter tops in place. Unfortunately, the people I went with do not do any painting. I didn’t think this would be a big deal, because there is hardly any wall exposed, but it took me a long weekend to get it all painted. Partly this is because I had to do a lot of wall repairs, since removing the old cabinets left many dings and tears in the walls. Then I had to tape everything up and do a lot of edging. I was insanely paranoid that I was going to accidentally paint my new cabinets. Also, I picked out those cabinet handles myself. I was worried I would pick out handles that ruined everything, but I think they look good. They do right??? right???

There has been a bit of a mishap with my counter tops. They made them the wrong color, so they gave me this temporary counter top while I wait for the new ones. This is my new sink though, the facet pulls out into one of those sprayer things on a hose. You know, in case somebody visiting me ever wants to wash a dish by hand or something. Or maybe I’ll develop a death wish and decide to give the cat a bath. I wish I didn’t have to have a corner sink, but there just isn’t room for anything else.

So there you have it, most of my new kitchen. You can see more pictures in my flickr set here. When I finally get my counter tops installed, I’ll post some final pictures and my final thoughts. Overall, I think I’m very happy, but I waiting to see the counter tops before I express my final opinion