Kitchen Redux

Our kitchen looks nice in a photo but it frustrated us from the start. Our chief complaint was that the cabinets were old and crummy and there wasn't enough storage space. Last January we started the process of planning what at first was just going to be new cabinets but by spring we decided to take the plunge and make it the room we want. After many months of coming up with different designs we figured out what to do and now finally we're ready to go. 

The shape of the kitchen is a galley. This is the side opposite the above photo. The remodel will be taking down the wall above this counter, adding new cabinets, countertop, and appliances. And we'll add some lower cabinets on the other side of here. We started on Monday.

This is looking at the kitchen from the living room. The wall is now open and the room's gutted. They tell me that by Monday we'll install cabinets. Then we wait until January for countertops and appliances.

I know we're going to like having everything open, and it'll lighten up the living room a lot. Brad and Allie and I are living in a studio apartment formerly known as our bedroom. It works quite well, although Allie can't figure out why there's so much stuff in her bedroom and why she can't go in the rest of the house. We're fortunate to have a sliding glass door to the backyard so from a Covid standpoint we never have to go into the airspace where the work's being done except when we have to confer with the crew or get something out of the refrigerator (which is now in the living room).