Posts from the ‘Kitchen’ Category

After a week straight of nonstop work the dining room built-in is finished. And this time, since it’s been so long since part one and you’ve all waited patiently (all ten of you), let’s just reveal the final product here right at the start before picking up where we left off. I couldn’t have gotten [...]

Our new (2010) kitchen pantry, while a drastic improvement over what we had before we remodeled the kitchen, still left something to be desired. And that something would be “better storage.” Back when we bought the house, the pantry had an angled front wall at the back edge of the kitchen. Though it was physically [...]

This is the second post of a series. Catch up on the first post here. Yesterday I continued telling the story of the orphan kitchen window that was once an exterior window, but now just looks from the kitchen into the sleeping porch. I’ve had the hardest time figuring out what to do with this [...]

It’s been almost a year since I turned to you, my…uh.. tens of blog readers, to ask what I should do with this old leftover window in the kitchen. I’ve had the hardest time figuring out what to do with this old single-hung window in the kitchen that was once the back of the house, [...]

I’ve had the hardest time figuring out what to do with this old single-hung window in the kitchen that was once the back of the house, but now just opens into the back sleeping porch area. We love the light coming in from the back door and windows into the kitchen. The former owner had [...]

For some reason I don’t have a most recent picture of the kitchen on Flickr, but here’s a before/after set before we had the lighting installed and the electric stuff finished. Everything is pretty much done in the kitchen now. Floors have had the last coat of poly put on, the appliances are all in, [...]

I’ll let Rachel tell more about the counters if she likes, but she’s working at home today so she could be there when the counter guys came and installed the new countertops. We used a company called Maryland Stone Source that came recommended from Dwayne Bradford, who was the broker for our seller and happened [...]

Kitchen is in!, originally uploaded by whiteknuckled. The kitchen cabinets went in on Monday. And just like that, the place starts to feel like a home; like a place we’re due to habitate at midnight tonight when we’re supposed to be out of our current apartment. We’re going to try and take the rest of [...]

Some shortcuts that seem like a good idea at the time — like putting some new wallpaper over the old rather than taking it down first, or painting over wallpaper — can come back to haunt you. Unfortunately, in the case of our house, someone else’s dumb shortcuts are just haunting us. The biggest nightmare [...]

Sometimes you just get lucky. And sometimes that luck gives you just the excuse you need to avoid some work. As you can see from the kitchen plans, we opened up some new space in the kitchen (and made a more effective pantry space) by knocking the 45-degree angled pantry entrance at the back of [...]