Kitchen UPDATE
Well, we built our home 6 years ago...we ran out of money by the end, so we couldn't finish our kitchen the way we "dreamed". After saving our pennies for quite awhile, we are finally doing it!
I will add a before and after pic when we are completed. We have beautiful stainless appliances and white cabinets. I love em, but they are a bugger to keep clean...anyway, we are keeping them. So, our plan was, to bump out our existing bar (which essentially made the kitchen feel like a postage stamp) and to extend it into what we were using as the dining room. We moved my office and made that the dining room. Now, I am typing on the computer in my dining room! :) I'm feeling another re-do around the corner. smirk!
Anyhoo...we are changing our countertops. We used the cheapest floor tile and grouted it (because we couldn't afford what I wanted) and instead of going for something cheaper that I wouldn't really like, I decided to do something horrible that would force me to change it as soon as we could afford it. Good reasoning, huh?? It worked!
We have been scouring Granite warehouses throughout Chicago and finally have chosen "RIVER WHITE"...it is so gorgeous, looks similar to white marble, love it!! I am wanting an all-white, sparkly, ultra-crisp kitchen. I can't wait. I found new knobs last night at Anthropologie. Actually, I bought four and decided on one today. That was a MUCH easier decision than the granite.
We are also going to paint the walls (still undecided)...then tile the backsplash with small tiles (that we can do ourselves), white sparkly is what I am going for. Then, we need a hood over the stove (still hunting for that). So, we are probably half-way through our kitchen renovation, but just wanted to share what is happening.
Have a fabulous FIRST DAY OF SPRING! I am so ready for it!!! Spring cleaning, purging, rearranging...here I come!!!
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