Poor little girl has no idea what a real routine is like. I guess I should feel more sorry for her daycare that she started on Monday though...sorry, I really tried to get a routine, but with all of us living upstairs in 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom with no kitchen, that's a lot easier said that done.
Anyway, WOW, like just wait for these pictures. The cabinets were the biggest wrench in our plan. They arrived on June 14th, but with 1 cabinet missing, as well as all the trimming and filler pieces, we had to wait. Unfortunately, it took another 6 weeks for the replacements to come in..... I will say that this was not so much the fault of the cabinet company, but more the shipping company. But, I'm not gonna get all fussy and angry right now (I might save that for an entire post) because I have a kitchen and I'm on cloud nine. So far, we LOVE our cabinets. We went with a white shaker cabinet because it's a classic design. You can see bits of them in the photos below.
For our hardware we went with drawer pull and handles that were a brushed nickel. We went to Simply Home here in Starkville (it's a home design place) to get options and found knobs that we loved, but actually found pulls that we liked from LOWES! And they look great together!
Our countertops are fab. We went with a white quartz countertop that has a grey vein through it. We thought about doing marble, but we do have half a brain. There won't be any spilled red wine on them (we're not that classy), but there would definitely be some red-mio-mixed kids drinks on them, or large amounts of food coloring for our next birthday party that I'm sure I'll spend way to much time planning. We have real kids that make real messes. I'm still baffled by my friends that have spotless homes with small kids. Surely they have a closet chocked full of junk and drawers jam packed with stuff.... Sorry, I digress. Anyway, the countertops look great.
Next we have our new backsplash. This was a tough decision for me. With white cabinets and basically white countertops, we needed something different. I needed some color. George and I are fun people and we wanted something fun that made us happy as we sing and dance making dinner in our kitchen (what, you mean you don't sing and dance when you prepare your meals?!). We decided to go with a glass subway tile in a light green color. Think, those old glass coke bottles, that green/aqua color. It's literally the EXACT SAME COLOR. It adds just enough color and update to the room to make it look like it's a real family kitchen. We're actually doing a super cool feature wall that will be nothing BUT backsplash that is going to be awesome, but for now, you get to see what just the tile looks like.
Let's also not forget our awesome sink. No really, it is. We got a HUGE farm sink that I'm pretty much in love with. Like, why don't we just have a set of twins just so I can prove I can bath BOTH of them in this sink at the same time. Let it be known, it's ridiculous how much most farm sinks cost. If you haven't checked out their prices, they average between $800-$ 1,200. Ha, yeah, no thanks. This sucker came from IKEA on a sale at $250. And this thing is solid. When I told my contractor where it was from, he bent down thinking it would be easy to pick up, nope, sorry you almost pulled your back out... "Wow, that's heavy", why yes, yes it is.
The kitchen is not 100% done yet so I don't want to do a full reveal just yet, but man, we are getting close!! With looking at these items listed you can get a sense of what we're doing.
