The Kitchen

Last post I showed a photo of my Coop veggies/fruits from last Monday. One day last week I actually cooked (and my sister/brother in law were quite shocked at that sight when they dropped by?). AND, last night some neighbors invited us over for dinner and I was able to whip up a quite tasty salad from my Coop veggies (all organic – romaine, roma tomatoes, cucumber and I even made ranch dressing). When you see the pictures of our kitchen below, you might be impressed that I was able to whip up anything. It was tricky cutting my tomatoes and cucumber with a butter knife but it worked. Anyway… last week I made Parmesan Zucchini Sticks which were served with Marinara. I got the recipe off Pinterest. I would post the recipe, but all in all they were OK, so I’m not going to post it. The point here is that I was COOKING!

I also blanched some green beans and cooked them in a skillet with a little Olive Oil and soy sauce (salt & pepper too). Now they were YUMMY!

 

Here is a pic of the zucchini sticks before they were cooked. I’m thinking I just might not be a huge zucchini person.

Oh, and I baked the organic potatoes. Here is a photo of my plate. The buns were Pork Tenderloin sliders I had purchased from a friend who has just started doing a little pick-up-meal business. Impressed? Don’t be. It was yummy though! My kids were THRILLED (NOT!!) with this meal!

Last week I did this Megaphone design on this orange gingham A-line dress. Instead of using flannel for this raggy design, I used an extra layer of fabric instead. In this case, gingham! I love how it turned out!

So my layers are:

bottom: navy gingham

next (going up): navy (actually the other side of the Fabric Finders navy w/ orange dots.

next: orange gingham

next: orange FF with navy dots

next: navy gingham

top: plain navy

Typically I say use flannel underneath each fabric layer for raggy designs, but I think I like the gingham! You can see 2 other posts on Raggy Designs under Helpful Posts up top!

So now the big story… tomorrow is DEMOLITION day! They are removing all of our kitchen, eating area and laundry room cabinets and the tile from our kitchen, eating area, pantry and laundry room. They will then lay tile again and then put new cabinets and countertops in. This process should take a couple of weeks. I’m super excited, but also super nervous about the amount of dust I’m going to be cleaning and inhaling. Did I mention they are tearing out part of a wall? There are also some funky arches in our foyer we hope to remove. Anywho… we’ve cleared out the kitchen completely and our kitchen is now located in our foyer and dining room. Our den furniture is in our bedroom (which I forgot to take a picture of)!

This should be a very interesting couple of weeks with 3 kids, who will all be going to and from school, and soccer, and…

Here are my BEFORES. I plan to take pics and document this process since we are not a go-in-and-renovate kind of family. I’ll also post a picture of the tile I have and cabinet samples.

The desk area will become a buffet type cabinet and the cabinets on the left will be gone completely and replaced with some piece of furniture (console table or something).

Bye Bye 1980s kitchen!! Actually the appliances are new. The cabinets are original I think!

Side note: I found these 2 lovelies at Highlands Antique Mall in Dothan, AL Saturday. Both of these were $40 $50 (after I paid for the little vase that Browder accidentally broke). Not sure where they are going? If we could redo our mantle using these I’d be thrilled!

Here is our lovely laundry room. If you read about when we bought this house, you’ll know that below the sheets piled on the cabinet is a lovely hair-washing sink. This wall will have cabinets all the way across with a utility cabinet on the right side, and a laundry tub in place of the hair-washing sink! The wire shelf will be gone too.

We’re 86’ing the built in ironing board and the top cabinets on this wall. The base cabinet will be bigger (for folding laundry).

Cubbies for the 3 kiddies will go here. This house has a great laundry room!

Here is another view of the kitchen, and all of the ceiling cabinets will be gone, and the sink cabinets will become an island!

 

I will post pics along the way with good Before/After pics when we’re done!

Tomorrow Jeff & I are going to Atlanta FOR THE DAY to go to Ikea! Our Mission, Expedit cubbies for my sewing room and also Mallory’s closet! I am SO excited!! I will post pics of all that too!