Folks who live in New England tend to fall easily into seasonal crankiness. When it is hot in the summer, it is too hot and in the winter, after the first snow storm, suddenly it is the longest, most horrible winter ever. I think we are all collectively happy for about twenty minutes in the [...]
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Chairs Chairs Chairs
Posted in B4 and After, How To..., Kate, Uncategorized, tagged CHAIRS, dining room, woodworking on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I signed up for a woodworking class that starts in February. It is through the adult education program in my cute little city. Eight weeks of learning how to build things! I’m hoping to learn how to make furniture and get over my fear of power tools. I am so excited. Do you want to [...]
Kitch org
Posted in B4 and After, How To..., Kate, Kitchen Redefined, Style & Stage, tagged cabinets, drawers, kate, kitchen organized, pretty time, storage shelves on December 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The span of time in between when the kitchen was finished enough for us to start putting our belongings back and when we were expecting about 35+ of our local friends and family for our annual Festivus Party was four evenings (after work) long. We had about a month to demo and box up everything [...]
Holiday Decorating
Posted in B4 and After, How To..., Kate, Style & Stage, tagged christmas threw up, holiday decor, kate, seasonal on December 13, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The month of December can be a tricky time in our two religion home. As it is, Christmas now starts right after Halloween. I purposely like to use decorative elements that could be considered “seasonal” versus all about the Lord and Savior JC. That’s what works for us and we enjoy getting our fill of [...]
Donzo!
Posted in B4 and After, Kate, Kitchen Redefined, Style & Stage, tagged counter tops, countertop appliances, done, glass cabinet, happy again, kate, kitchen, pergo floor on December 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It’s done, folks. All done. I’ve been cooking and baking up a storm. I can’t help it. The room calls to me and I’m helpless against the cool, gray counter tops, or sitting on the pergo floor feeding the puppies treats. When we were putting our stuff back, we kept the basic set up [...]
Mile 24
Posted in B4 and After, Justin, Kate, Kitchen Redefined, tagged almost done, granite, Justin, kate, kitchen on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is my favorite picture from yesterday: Justin snapped this while the guys were still actively installing the counter top, mostly because I was beg texting (bexting?) to keep sending me more pictures. I am having a caption contest in my head about what this guy is thinking. Even though I’ll never cross paths with this gentleman again, I’ll always think [...]
Just a tease
Posted in B4 and After, Kate, Kitchen Redefined, tagged kitchen on December 1, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I am without words. It is hard to type when you have your face pressed up against the cool, beautiful granite. I’m high from the beauty of it all and maybe the seam glue. But because we don’t have electricity in the dinning room, the rest of the pictures will have to wait until day [...]
And on the 475th day of the kitchen remodel project…
Posted in B4 and After, Justin, Kate, Kitchen Redefined, tagged and the letter L, bourbon, Ikea, kitchen redefined, smiles on December 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I said, gosh darn it, we need to get an electrician. You know when aforementioned electricity professional describes your overhead kitchen light as “being perfect for a garage, so don’t throw it out” that you are clearly not hitting the mark on style. The purpose of having our new electrician friend come over and spend [...]
Pantry Makeover!
Posted in B4 and After, How To..., Kate, Kitchen Redefined, tagged kitchen, Makeover, pantry, turquoise paint on November 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As you may or may not have noticed during our kitchen renovation was the hugely messy pantry closet. The contractors took the door off to replace the flooring, so our disorganized mess of a closet was on view for everyone. I finally hit a wall on that this weekend. I’ve tried to hunt down storage [...]
Kitchen Update
Posted in B4 and After, Justin, Kate, Kitchen Redefined, tagged Justin, kate, kitchen remodel, Lowes, Ugh on November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
So the kitchen project is moving along. Each day there are new things to see. Yesterday though, there wasn’t enough done to put up a post. This is the view as you enter the kitchen. The microwave still needs to be installed over the stove. I think that plus the knobs will really make it [...]
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