The Plan

Now that the wall is down in the kitchen, we really can see what sort of space we have. This allowed us to layout what we wanted to do with the kitchen. After drawing on the walls and taping off the floor we had a plan. Nate used his fancy planning program to show what it will hopefully look like.

 

 This is a general idea of what the kitchen will look like. (Our fridge is not nearly as nice). We are modifying a large dresser that was left in our basement for the island and Nate found a butcher block top for $30 bucks on Craigslist! (We love Craigslist). We are able to use a lot of the cabinets from the old kitchen so we only need to buy about 3 to complete the kitchen area. We were also able to do our first price match at Lowe's! We found out that even if they have to special order the product they will still price match they just won't give you the 10% discount. However, if you are really nice they will let you keep looking for a lower price until the whatever you bought comes in. So I have 3 weeks to find a lower price on our new dishwasher. The only thing we need to get is a new hood, possibly a new stove and the countertops. 

Before we can put all our nice new stuff in our kitchen we have to do a few things. First is that we have to switch the window in the old kitchen and the window in the new kitchen so that the cabinets fit in. Second is that we have to do something with the floors since the old kitchen had two layers of laminate. This means we have to decide between wood or tile. There are pros and cons with both and we keep flip flopping on what we want. Pros for wood: the new kitchen already has the wood floors since it was the dinning room and we can pull wood from other parts of the house to put in the old kitchen so we would have to buy very little. It is also a warmer floor option. Cons: wood in kitchens sometimes does not hold up as well and we would have to take out some from the dining room side so that the floor is seamless. Pros to tile: Holds up well and I've gotten really good at putting it down. Cons: Cold and it would cost a lot more to put it in. The third thing we have to do, which is really the next thing we need to do before anything else, is do all the electrical and put can lights in. Hopefully this will all be done in two months!