One Room Totally Complete

Several of you have asked to see photos of our reno/addition. Everything is done -- with the exception of our fireplace, but we haven't decided what we want for a mantle there yet anyway, so it can sit. It gives heat and that's good.

What isn't done is the decorating. I have blank walls everywhere. I have some ideas, but still more blank walls than ideas. Finally there's the little problem of cash, but we won't go there. That being said, the kitchen is the first and only room that is completely finished. Simply because nothing needs to go on the walls.

So without further ado, the kitchen before:

The kitchen now:

Just a little different, yes :o)?

If you've read my blog for any amount of time, you may remember that I didn't want to redo the kitchen. Never mind that it was actually rotting and falling apart. The Engineer wanted it done. So I gave in with the agreement that it had to be simple, functional, and very easy to clean! I got what I had hoped for. The designer and company we worked with were fantastic! It was almost like the designer climbed inside my head and understood what I wanted.

Finally, here one of two of my favorite things in our new kitchen:

The front bin is garbage and the back bin is recycling.

How cool is that?!? (I know. I don't get out much!)

The other was our big splurge, but it really makes sense with nine people in the house:

Happy dance!! I have not one, but two convection ovens! I can have multiple trays of cookies baking in one and multiple pies baking in another. The possibilities are endless! We use both of them a lot, so it was definitely a wise splurge. The one thing that did not change is the dishwasher. We live by the motto, "if it's not broken, you don't fix it". Unlike our fridge and range, our dishwasher is still relatively new. Our fridge and range were dead or dying, but the dishwasher runs great! Soon enough it will croak too and I can go to black. Did you know that appliances are only designed to last ten years nowadays, and even less with a large family? Crazy! I'm glad we got the twenty something years we did out of our previous appliances.

Well, there you have it, that's our new kitchen.

What is your favorite thing about your kitchen?