I am a huge fan of progress. I love it. Right now, I’d venture to say it’s my favorite thing in the entire world 
The house is taking shape! Woohoo! The drywall is finished, the walls are primed, the ceilings have a very subtle texture on them (which looks fabulous), the new doors are ordered and our project this weekend will be preparing the floors for the new rustic oak hardwoods we’ll be laying. Shooey!
In this post, I want to focus on one room in particular. The kitchen. The kitchen is the space in this house that I’m most excited about. I think it’s due to the fact that I love, love, love to cook and in the past few months I haven’t had a kitchen of my own to cook in. The kitchen is the heart of the home and I have so many plans to make this space truly personal. I touched on the kitchen a little in this post. For the most part, our plans for the room remain the same, though the green is a touch deeper and will be more rustic. You’ll just have to see
Anyhow, let’s take a quick walk down memory lane, shall we?
Here are some images of the kitchen the first time we walked through the house:
Walking into the kitchen from the front room/dining area you were greeted by a small, closed-off doorway. Upon entering the kitchen, the ceiling was dropped down to seven-foot. SEVEN! I could touch in on my tip-toes and I’m just a smidge over five-foot tall. Pure insanity, I tell ya.
The tiny kitchen felt dark and dreary, what with the low ceiling and super dark cabinetry. Notice the half wall that opened up to the family room ’round back. Why? Why would it open up to a family room and not the dining room? It defies logic.
The view from inside the kitchen to the dining room. Notice all that light getting blocked by the wall? So sad.
From the prior kitchen post (link posted above) you can see a little of what it looked like while we were still knocking down and moving walls That was FUN!
And now, the kitchen looks like this:
Here is the view into the kitchen from the dining room. We cut down the full wall that was between the dining room and kitchen, blew out the doorway all together and left it wide open and raised the ceiling to the proper eight-foot height. We also installed a full wall between the kitchen and back family room because, well, that makes actual sense The fridge will reside on that wall. We also borrowed about two-foot of space from the family room. You can tell in the kitchen (it feels giant!!!) but cannot tell in the family room. LOVE.
Can you handle all that yummy light?! Woohoo! The stove will reside on this wall. There will be a small bar-top on this wall for additional seating when we have guests. I looooove this. Look how BRIGHT it is!
I’m sorry I can’t provide a view of the sink wall in the kitchen. I had the incorrect lens on my camera 
Sorry! I cannot WAIT to post pictures of the finished kitchen. It’s going to look amazing if it turns out like the image in my head
Another addition to the kitchen will be a little island This island has a very special story and a very special look and you’re just going to have to wait to find out what that’s all about 
This special island needs lots of special love to be use-able and I’m still working on that. I’ll have a lighted pot rack over the island and I’m stoked about that. If you have any copper pots or come across any that you don’t mind snatching up, I’ll buy ‘em from ya. The more well-used, the better. I like character. My only stipulation is that they must be able to be used on the cook-top. We’re trying to minimize “stuff” in our house so we want to try and make sure everything has a purpose other than collecting dust.
Here’s a peek at the ceilings, too! I’ll have an updated pic soon. They’ve been painted since this photo and they look AWESOME! I’m so excited to have ceilings that aren’t marred with nail-pops, visible seams and joist-lines. Hooray!
I know I can’t get away with so many blog posts without posting some recent ones of the Tedster, so here you go.
Here he is at the new house, hanging out on the front porch.
And here is, bugging mommy while she tried to get work done! The greatest thing about working at home is the fact that I can wear pj’s all.day.long and no one can enforce a dress code Except me. And I won’t.
Is he not the most forlorn creature you’ve ever seen? Hehe. I love him to pieces.
