Still "Under Construction"

Praise the Lord, we're making progress! Things that could have been problems, have worked out well. We have been living mostly sane lives, despite the disruption of a kitchen under construction. (Although I am a little tired of cooking in the basement ;-) ) The builder of our cabinets was running behind schedule (but we were too, so we really didn't notice) and, what a blessing, he has offered to do the installation for free as a result! Yay--we are blessed!Thankfully, "cabinet guy" will likely be able to install next week! We got a glimpse in his workshop last weekend (we were bringing him the undercabinet lighting so he can prep the underside of the upper cabinets for them). They are custom wood cabinets with natural maple fronts and they look really nice. The wood feels so smooth and the cabinets are really big compared with what we had before!

The walls probably look white to most of you but they are actually "oatbran" a funny name for paint, but not bad for a kitchen! :-)

So the order is this (God and weather permitting): cabinets next week, after cabinets are installed we have measurements for the countertop and one week after that the counter will be installed. Then we have the finish work to do (which we will do ourselves). Such as painting and installing new trim (along the floor, and around openings and windows) and a little outdoor trim work where we enlarged the opening for the sliding glass door. We still have two cutouts for the leaded glass windows in the opening to the library (you can see one of them in the picture above). We did that for added character, or bling. Ha!

We are so thankful for how smoothly everything has been going (especially since the floor removal part). It's been a little surreal to see the process of change! The space looks so different to me now, I find myself just sitting down and staring at the room sometimes!