Kitchen Reno

I was standing in our kitchen the other day and thought, "something must be done." It is way too dark for such a small space and just looked raggedy.  So I told Steve we need to renovate the kitchen.  He was super excited, he loves planning (not actually doing) projects.  He started planning a complete tear-out and re-build.  However, after hours on 3-D kitchen planners he discovered that not only is that crazy expensive, but our kitchen is set up in a such a way that it is currently in the only configuration that works for the space.  So then we scaled back and decided to just paint the existing cabinets and do everything else we planned (new hardwood floor, tile backsplash, fridge, and sideboard).  After watching a couple YouTube videos on how to paint wood cabinets correctly (so that the paint looks good and doesn't chip or bubble), that looked super intense.  Plus, it seemed a shame to paint (at least) 75 year old wood cabinets - even if I wanted to lighten things up. Once again the plan has changed.  We went to Lowe's yesterday and got inexpensive new flooring Steve is going to install himself, I am going to pain the walls white (bright!), we will eventually get a new fridge…and may tile the backsplash at some point.  And that's pretty much it.  So…light kitchen renovation.  Quite a change from the complete demo and rebuild we first thought about!  I still took some before pictures:

Floor and orange are going!

Sideboard will just be organized, not replaced…maybe

New fridge…soonish?

While we were standing in Lowe's getting the paint and flooring, a woman came up and went on and on about what an adorable family we are - she was especially enamored with Wm, of course. She kept saying how much Wm looked like both of us and how cute we all were. She was super nice and made all our days!  Yay for nice strangers!