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This weekend, we started painting our cabinets in the kitchen. The goal was to get all the uppers painted, but we only got as far as priming them because we decided to add another spur-of-the-moment project while we’re working in here. Our over-the-range microwave has been driving us crazy since we moved in. It is so low. […]

This kitchen has been two years in the making, constantly tweaking what we had (painting cabinets, painting countertops!, buying new appliances as we could afford them) until we were ready for a little bit more of a renovation a couple months ago.  Here’s what it looked like when we moved in: And here’s how it […]

The final shipment of our kitchen tile comes in today and we’re moderately excited about it.  There are just a few last minute things we have on our kitchen to-do list, one being the windowsill above the sink. You see, it looks like this…after a good scrubbing: All of the windowsills on the back of […]

Our old sink was pretty standard–sub par. 17 years old. So when we were planning our kitchen remodel, a new sink had to happen. We wanted an undermount sink with one deep basin and fell in love with this 30″Kraus sink: After the undersides of the countertops were sealed three times–we were gearing ourselves up […]

Almost two years ago, we took down one of our upper cabinets and put in a couple of shelves–which we love, love, love.  In fact, so much so that last weekend we added another one. Of course, there were a few other reasons for the third shelf.  First, soon (like, the counters are arriving Friday […]

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