January 12, 2008
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Part 1.....The Kitchen....
Another update, wow...first off...Today is my Birthday!! danananana ....it's your birthday too yeah! danananana! At least, it's also my moms birthday, go wish her a good one! Thanks mom for sharing your day with me.
And for our housewarming/birthday/Christmas/whatever for a long long time....a kitchen re-do at our new home!:
The Old Kitchen: The problem? Not enough storage, a dust shelf (woohoo!) an oven that burns, and undercooks food depending on shelf and placement and of course, you must rotate it all half way through....the bane of Christmas cookies everywhere!; rotted out cabinetry from an improperly installed dishwasher...etc... So I took advantage of a major good deal at lowes...cash cards for evey $ spent at Lowes on anything for several months, and considering I'd already had doors installed and flooring bought for the big room, that made quite a dent. So I got like $1,000.00 back...free! Also a $600.00 bonus for doing the kitchen and a phenomenal kitchen designer who helped me cut corners all over the place. Here's a tip, the pantry unit that many company's sell costs like $1,000.00 all by itself, but you can stack 3 cabinets and get the same space for about 1/3rd the cost. Cool beans. She also found another $500.00 off bonus from another store bonus doohicky, life is good. So, on with the pics:
next to the oven is this wall which is the back of a small hall closet. I had the installer hack it out to make it part of the kitchen. Also ordered the base cabinets that will go there to be dropped to have a lower work surface which benefits baking, rolling out, and petite members of the family! 
Later, I'll put up the pics of the re-do as it stands at present. Still waiting on the dropped cabinets and I have a ton of painting that will have to be done. They just have to install counter top and finishing around the cabinetry...but it looks great so far!
off to do some manual labor with my nephew on my birthday! Woot! ~Kate
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