TheColtonsMom
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What are the plans with the kitchen?
We are pulling all the upper cabinets out they are so shallow that if you put a dinner plate in there you can't close the doors.. All the upper cabinets are getting re-purposed in the garage,shed & laundry room. All the lower cabinets are being re-finished and the sink is getting moved to under the window. We are also moving the refrigerator as right now it is right next to the stove and cleaning the side of it sucks! The upper cabinets are getting replaced with these really cool open shelves built with supports made of plumbing pipe and wooden shelves (really cooler looking than it sounds). A new lower cabinet with a butcher block top and upper spice cupboard is going where the fridge used to be by the stove. We are pouring our own new concrete countertops...We helped a friend do hers last fall and it came out wonderful and so much cheaper than any other option out there besides more laminate. The UGLY (why would someone do this) Blue rose covered Grandma's living room wallpaper is coming down and the plaster walls are being repaired and painted yellow to show off the huge silly collection of John Deere stuff that we have in our kitchen and the floor is kinda still up in the air.. Either tile with in floor heating or bamboo flooring just still have not decided... Large Samples of both are sitting on our kitchen floor right now and I am leaning towards the bamboo because it feels so much nicer when you have to stand for along time. When we bought the house I loved the size of the kitchen but knew the layout was awful so this remodel has been going on in my mind for 3 years.
When my MIL died in 2009 and we paid off our house with the life insurance we started putting away the $ that used to go to the mortgage for home improvements. Last year was the new metal roof and this year it's the kitchen... Next year we are adding Dormers and turning the attic into a master suite..It will be so nice to have 2 bathrooms! With a house built in 1916 there will likely never be an end to something left to be done.