The Kitchen

So Jeph and I have been spending pretty much all of our spare time in the kitchen lately, but unfortunately it was not to perfect our cooking skills, as many of you may have hoped. Instead we have been working on our construction skills. Yes, in our kitchen. We started by changing the wall color from off-white to mellow yellow, painting our brass chandelier black and buying new light covers that are a little more modern. Once we realized how bad the mellow yellow and our golden yellow cabinets looked together, we took on the big project of re-staining them to a lovely mahogany red. This took a lot more time than we were planning and it left our kitchen a disaster for a good week. In the mean time, Jeph found a great deal on a dishwasher and stove on KSL classifieds so we bought new used white appliances and sold our old almond colored ones on KSL. That's just the big stuff. The little things include the new hardware on the cabinet doors, a new faucet for our sink, taking out the florescent lights and putting up on of those pan holder things, and under-cabinet lighting. We also bought great track lighting from IKEA to go in our light box but after buying three different sets of the same track and none of them working out, we finally decided that tomorrow we will by the expensive lighting from Home Depot or Lowes. We finally realized that paying triple the price for lights that work will be worth it!

















Jeph and the old chandelier
















Old stove and dishwasher (note the old color of the cabinets, we forgot to take pictures before so this is all you get of that old color)













New stove and dishwasher!
















Our messy kitchen with no cabinet doors












Awesome new chandelier


















Overall finished look so far




















New faucet
















Future projects we would like to work on are the counter tops and donating our table and chairs to the newlyweds, Dave and Kim and getting something new. Good times!