kitchen progress

the kitchen isn't quite done

but it's getting there!

we've been working on it quite a bit

but first, a reminder of how terrible it looked when we moved in

we have now grouted the tile

 it definitely changed the look of it

but it's exactly what we envisioned and we're really happy with it

 we had a little issue

deciding what to do here

and regretted tiling it, ripped it off too late

and now this is what it looks like between our windows

not great but we aren't going to let it bring us down

we'll fix it eventually

 despite not having a butcher block counter top yet, we couldn't stand the extra tall island any longer

so michael got out his saw and cut it off

 he thinks it's so cool he gets to do stuff like cut our counter off

he felt pretty awesome doing it

 oddly he found a note INSIDE of our island

that was a gross descriptive....i want to call it a love letter but it was more of a lust letter

this is extra odd because our house is less than 10 years old

so it doesn't really make sense in any way....we threw it away

and the next morning when michael left me a note before work he tried to mimic it

which was hilarious

 it looked so much better off the bat

to finally be able to see into the kitchen

rather than have your view blocked

 so much better

but so much dustier

not fun to clean up all of these messes all the time

while living here

and trying to function and use our kitchen in between

 for now this is what our island looks like

a piece of plywood covering the open wall

and the counter we'll soon be replacing

 it's pretty sad this looks better than the original island

 then this last weekend we finally painted!

we liked the open look wit these dishes while we painted

so we may replace the original cupboard doors with glass pane ones

 first we sanded and painted the surround of the cupboards

 then we brought all the cupboards outside to be sanded

and cleaned and painted

 it was a big fat pain and took our whole weekend

i literally didn't leave the house all weekend

except for church

 sunday night michael hung the doors all back up

and i took this picture to show you the mess that these projects make

 i spent all of monday cleaning

so i could finally see our pretty kitchen

isn't it wonderful?

the next things to do are...

touch up the paint on the cupboards, seal it, and add knobs

put the butcher block counter top on the island

replace the black dishwasher with a stainless steel one that works better

paint the walls gray

replace the floor

because despite it looking good here, it's not

and we want uniform floors throughout the downstairs

we may also switch out the can lights above the island for some pendant lights

but all in all it's a huge improvement already

and we are super happy with it

i was pretty nervous about the amount of work this house would take to make it how we want it

when we moved in

but michael is really nailing it helping to bring all my kitchen dreams to life

i can't wait for it to be all done