Monday, August 10, 2009

Makeover

This is a project that has been in the making for a long time. It's getting better. We've done a lot of work on it the last 4 years we've lived here, and it isn't done yet. I finally finished my year long project of painting all the cabinets and repainting the walls this summer, though. The big project that remains is the lovely forest geen formica countertop. It will be replaced one of these days, hopefully soon. We're planning to put in tile countertop ourselves...of course, we have all the time in the world to do that, right?







As you can see the countertop doesn't completely cover the dishwasher. There used to be a door over there, Ben took it out and sheetrocked it in, put in more upper cabinets and installed a dishwasher. Unfortunately the countertop there only comes out to cover the back half of the dishwasher. But hey, the dishwasher was free...someone was throwing it out because it didn't work, Ben brought it home a few years ago when I was pregnant with the twins and fixed it. Not perfect, but boy do I enjoy not having to wash all my dishes by hand!










The stove is an old hand-me-down that was given to us by strangers just days before Thanksgiving 2005 when our other one died. It was a neat story...one of those obvious answer to prayer stories! It's next on the list of things to be replaced...the broiler doesn't work, the self-cleaning feature doesn't work, and 2 of the 4 burners decide when they want to work, which makes making supper fun. :-)
As you can see, living in an old home, the projects never really end. But we are enjoying the new semi-makeover, and we're glad to have our kitchen put back together.


























No comments: