More Cabinetry

Slowly bur surely our cabinetry is coming together. We have all the drawers finally. Kory also brought home the top portion of our book shelf in our office. I am so excited! Each child is going to get there very own drawer for their school supplies. It's going to be awesome! We also were able to "un pack" 2 totes full of books. My closet looks so much bigger without those totes.  

Love, love, love!

We have room to spare. Although I'm pretty sure we still have a tote of books hiding somewhere. There's quite a few books I know we own but aren't here. I'm also missing a few books from some of our series. Hopefully it will show up as we continue to unpack. 

Our hood is installed along with our spice racks. It's going to be AMAZING when it's all done. The kids and I have spent some time this week "un packing" kitchen totes and trying to get a little more organized now that we have all the drawers installed. 

Kory got our floating shelf installed for our microwave. It's nice to see the kitchen slowly coming together. Compared to what and how we've been living with over the past 3 years, this kitchen feels amazing. We have several empty drawers and empty shelves. I wonder low long it will take to fill em' up? 

Kory also brought home the master bath cabinet. 

Looking good. We're going to make the drawers this weekend. 

Grandpa Christensen helped me installed the sink fixtures. Yay!!

 

More Kitchen

Kory came home early today with a surprise!

He brought our hood home and got it hung up. And then he hung up the 3 cabinets that have been sitting on my family room floor for several weeks now. It's looking so good. 

While he had help he also hung the range hood. 

Look at that!

The tall walk through cabinet on the far right is our "hidden pantry". Through that walkway is the pantry and the stairs going down into the fruit room. Next we have the fridge cabinet, a small cabinet, spice rack, hood and another spice rack. This is so exciting to see it come together. 

 We ordered our stove right after we got our counter tops. We had no idea how back logged they were, thankyou Covid-19. Our stove won't be delivered to the store until Oct 28/29 (Wed/Thur). They will call me when it's in and then we will schedule a install day. I'm really, really hoping that they have an opening that next week. I am so, so disappointed we are about 6 weeks out. At least there is an end in sight!  The stove cost us a pretty penny. Hoping we can save up enough money to buy our cupboard and drawer fronts by the end of the year. I've loving my kitchen. I still have emptry drawers and shelves. Love it!

Pantry

Labor Day weekend my family came into town and we took the weekend off. Last weekend we were at our annual Lake Powell vacation with friends. It was good to have a few weekends off but felt good to be working on the house again. We are so close to being done, done. 

We installed our pantry cabinets. We staggered them over the stairs leading to the fruit room so no one will hit their head. 

They are so big, and so many of them. 

I have no idea what I will fill them up with!

 We didn't get everything done until after 9pm. We were both tired. On Monday I will have to put the rest of shelves in and decided what to store here. It's looking pretty good. Now that the shelves are installed we can base this room and build the stair railing. Then we can move our deep freeze out of my front room and put it in it's new home where it belongs.  Every weekend we work is one weekend closer to being done with our house 

More in the Office

Look at this! We have drawers and we have counter tops. It's going to be amazing to have a office again. We have a specific spot for our desktop where I will be working and Kory will have his own desk with his laptop. 

This week I was able to clean out our filing cabinet. I couldn't tell you the last time I cleaned that big boy out. I found things that I didn't even know I had. For instance, I found Kory's and mine 1st tax return we filed after we got married. That's right our 2001 tax return . I also had both of our 1999 and 2000 tax return we both filed as single. I had 21 years of tax returns! Why??? I have no idea why I still had them.  It felt so good to get rid of so much "old" paperwork. 

We still have a little bit of organization and some electrical work to do. On the far right of Kory's desk we will have a book shelf. Kory gave me 6 big and deep drawers on the bottom. Right now the kiddo's have picked one drawer to keep their homeschooling books in. I've got 4 empty drawers! Since this cabinet was a last minute thing we have to wait a few weeks for our granite guy to come up with a scrap piece that matches what we have. Once it's on top Kory will bring home the top piece that will be open shelves. That is where our boxes of books will find their new home. 

 I know it's a complete mess. But I was so excited to take a picture of our "new" space. Kory had a massage client this week. He was able to do it in our new office. 

Kitchen Counter Top

We have had a few hic cups with our counter tops. We ordered a top called "Heavenly" and we wanted it finished in a leather finish. The store had 4 pieces that we absolutely loved. However they were already sold. So the company was going to order some more in for us. The week we were scheduled for the install we got word our granite wasn't on the shipment they had received. However it would be in the following week. That next week it didn't come in again! What a disappointment! We were finally told that because of Covid the company really had no idea if or when we get our order. It could be the following week, it could be 3 months. We had already waited 2 weeks and so with the unknown we decided to find something different, something that was already in stock. We went looking a few different times and finally found this. We love it! 

It's full of browns and grays and looks awesome with our cabinets and flooring. 

My Dad came up and helped us install the new garbage disposal and sink. Yay!

While Dad was doing that Kory and I removed our existing "kitchen" of 2 years. I remember the night well that we installed our temporary kitchen. At the time we thought it was just for a few months. Little did we know it was going to be 2 years. It has served us well and I was almost a little sad to see it go. 

But now it's gone. 

Now we can walk around the island comfortably. 

Over the weekend we were able to finish the wood floors. I love it! I love the 2 toned wood finish. I love the counters. I love that our floors are done and it is so, so much easier to sweep. I have sat several times at my kitchen table and just stared at my kitchen is awe. It has been so long since we have had a decent, working kitchen. I love it. We ordered our stove but again thanks to Covid we won't have it until the end of October. But its a great feeling to know it is on its way. We are so close to being done.  

 

Kitchen Island

Kory brought home our island this week. 

Our kitchen is going to have so many drawers and cupboards I don't think I will be able to fill them all up. It's going to be amazing!

Kory wanted to make sure we had plenty of plugs. So we put an electrical box on both ends of the island. I'm going to love this!

Not only did he bring the island home he also brought a top for our cabinet under the stairs and the island itself. 

This is going to be amazing!

I haven't had much of counter top since we took our kitchen out 2 years ago. But even then the 2 years we lived in the house with the previous kitchen didn't provide much either. 

Kitchen is a little crowded at the moment but I won't complain. Our countertops should be here sometime next week. Once we get them installed we can install the sink and get rid of our "2 year" kitchen. I just can't believe how big it's going to be. 

More Kitchen

 Our granite guy stopped by earlier this week and measured. Our granite should be delivered this Fri/Monday. He has us on his schedule for next Thur/Friday. Wow! To have a real kitchen, real cabinets and real countertops. I am so excited!

Yesterday, Saturday Aug 1st, Kory installed the 3 uppers we have done. We also got a few more drawers done this week so were able to install them to. It's so fun and exciting to see it all coming together, a little piece at a time. Now I can get rid of that huge white cabinet we have all grown accustomed to.

 In the 18 hours we have had the upper cabinets we have discovered how short we all are. Kylie is 8. She hasn't had upper cabinets in 2 years. Making her 6 and in Kindergarten. She's always had a job emptying the dishwasher. I guess before we took the cabinets out she was probably in charge of the silverware. But for quite some time now she can empty the whole dishwasher......until now. The girl can't reach! She has to push a chair up against the counter to reach the cups, plates and such. Brayden who is now 11 can only reach the bottom shelf of the upper cabinet, where the cups are put. He can't reach the next shelf with out a chair either. So he can't reach the bowls and plates. It is going to take some time getting use to our new arrangements. The heavy white cabinet we've been using for the past 2 years held these items. We always kept them on a "lower" shelf so everyone could reach.