The Kitchen: Phase 1

This was the kitchen when we moved in. Blank canvas was nice. Let's look a little closer here. 

See this fabulous dishwasher? Yeah... This was quite obviously not original to the kitchen. As you can see, it is only covered by the counter top. What you may not notice is that it is sitting on a nice piece of plywood. And that cord you see, it plugged into an outlet above the counter top. Meaning, if you wanted to plug in your blender and your toaster, you would have to unplug the dishwasher.

                                            So we bandaged it with some plywood. (until we could do a remodel) We painted it white to blend in. And also made a little bar too. (see that cord going above the counter? yep...)                                                       

Next we have the stove. It was pretty much alright, except for the missing vent hood that left 3 giant holes in the wall.

This is our dining area. What you can see- lovely peel and stick linoleum. It looked fine for the most part, but there were places where it doesn't look fine. What you can't see- the ceiling fan had no blade. (we had 4 ceiling fan fixtures when we moved in, and only one of them had blades on it.. explain that one for me?)

So as you can see, the kitchen was usable. It had running water and a stove. Aaron's parents happened to be getting a new refrigerator about the time we needed one. (FREE! Best in laws ever!) Yes, the room was an eye sore, but we could live with it. It was just a little dumb looking.

This is how we prettied it up while we saved money for the overhaul. 

 These are our friends, Ellie and Ivy, they helped us with the painting. Good happy friends.

I liked the idea of having a display type cabinet. So we took the doors (which didn't close correctly) off and painted the inside white.

 I also loved this blue color. I got a "get a free sample color" coupon in one of my magazines. It matches the blue on the little curtain in the window.

This is me in my jammies. I honestly don't remember what I was doing. Probably preparing to smash the cabinets by jumping on them.

These are our friends enjoying themselves in our kitchen at our annual white elephant party. Literally the week after we moved in. They didn't mind our crazy kitchen. We are a work in progress.



The Kitchen overhaul coming next week!