Kitchen Remodel

We have counter tops!! I’m singing in the rain, we’re singing in the rain, what a glorious feeling- *Cough! Cough!* Anyway, Wednesday Sumner Granite showed up with our white lace counter tops and installed. They came trooping through the living room carrying the big pieces of granite soaking wet. What a day to rain… After a

This week it’s all about counter tops! The mind numbing, detail-filled, contradictory world of quartz, laminate, butcher’s block, porcelain, granite, marble we’ve looked at them all until our eyes were bleeding. Please no more! So for your sanity and ours, after all, we have to do something with our self-taught knowledge of the counter top

Well, this has been quite a journey, hasn’t it?  Sinks and sub floors, tile and cabinets, saws and drills Oh and BRAD not to be confused with Brad Pitt mind you but the battery powered brad gun that we have all come to know and love around here. Yes, it has been a long and educational

Apparently, it’s a trend for delivery trucks to not drive up our driveway, rather than drive up the delivery guys drug our new dishwasher up on a dolly. Yep, all the way up, around large holes, over small bumps and through the gravel right up to the back door. They promptly left the very large,

Week 18 of the saga of our D.I.Y kitchen remodel job. Today, our third blind corner replacement arrived- the shrill ringing of the telephone intruding on a pre-caffeinated morning with a rather grumpy UPS delivery guy on the other end. He quickly informed us that we would have to come down and get the “package”

Well hello again! Thank you for joining us on this 17th week of fun that we have called the D.I.Y. kitchen remodel. What have I learned on this kitchen rehab you ask?  What have I learned “installing cabinets” adventure? That I’m a perfectionist, I’m a perfectionist until my shoulder and back are so out of

The arrival of our cabinets was heralded by a Deputy Sheriff arriving at our doorstep. The dog being the smallest and able to squeeze through the many piles of boxes to make it to the door first, and greeted our visitor with a tirade of barking. When the rest of caught up, we just stared out

So I suppose you can tell by the title that we ordered our cabinets. WE ORDERED OUR CABINETS!!!!!!!! After 81 days, 3+ months and days of craziness, we finally have ordered cabinets! You may have noticed over the last aforementioned time that we shared a TON of designs. Yeah, sorry about that. We’ve been to

What is the truth about buying a sink you ask? I mean how hard can it be? You’re so adorable, let me pop that little bubble for you. The truth about buying a sink is your going to want to pull your hair out. They’ll be “buyers remorse”, did I buy the right one????????? What