Yesterday, I ordered the kitchen cabinets!  Whew, that was a big check and a big thing checked off the kitchen to-do list.  Jeff hadn’t seen the cabinets I selected in person and, to his credit, he trusted me completely and didn’t even ask to see them, but I asked if he would meet me at the showroom just so he could put his hands on them and confirm that he liked them.  I trust him completely to buy our vehicles and he trusts me completely to buy our cabinets, but we both like a little reassurance on purchases that are big-ticket items.  He gave his approval, so I placed the order.  If you missed the cabinets I selected, you can see them HERE. With the cabinets set, I can now focus on some of the other elements of the kitchen.  Those have, of course, been in the periphery of my

I am so excited to share that the kitchen renovation is falling into place.  The new larger window was ordered a few weeks ago and I am ordering the cabinets early next week now that the design is nailed down.  When we were house shopping, finding a kitchen that needed renovation was at the top of my list.  I know that sounds a little odd, but our past two homes had very nice kitchens, and redoing them just to suit personal preferences would’ve been a waste of resources.  In both cases, we made cosmetic changes to the kitchens and I ended up really loving both of them.  But, with the next house, I was excited at the thought of gutting a kitchen, starting it from scratch, and making it completely my own. As a reminder, here is how the kitchen looks currently… I started drawing up ideas for this kitchen