| | Very Merry ChristmasOla friends! It's been a wonderful holiday so far. We've enjoyed time, food, and conversation with our family. Making more plans for the summer time and getting other family members to join in on the fun! I hope your Christmas has been a blessed one.
Now, we are back to working on the kitchen with baby steps. We've run in to some structural problems, which slowed us down a lot....and I was really disappointed, but I'm happy that we are doing it right. It's funny to us that every time we try and make repairs or upgrades such as insulating or replacing windows and/or interior walls we've been met time and time again with crooked spaces. Nothing was level. We've done a lot of work here and looks like we will continue to do a lot of work with any little thing we do here!
Our house is a little over 100 years old. Sometime in the 1950s it was remodled or maybe the word restored fits more appropriately, and the basement was added along with the dining room and indoor bathroom. An oil tank and furnace was installed. So, what started as more of a shanty.....turned into a small house. Small one bedroom house!
What we are hoping to do is make it more of a country style than modern since it is a very simple country house to begin with. I like wood furniture. Some stand alone pieces would be nice.
Our first kitchen project is the pantry. The kitchen pantry
was a closet with shelves. We removed the shelves after we installed
the kitchen cabinets so we would have room for the refrigerator so the pantry became a built in refrigerator ;)
Rather than have a separate cabinet to use as a pantry,we are
rebuilding the old pantry. Right now, the refrigerator is in the dining room.
Our dining room is pine wood. Not paneling, but boards. The two rooms are actually one that is separated only by a framed in beam entry from kitchen to dining room. We've decided to use this to our advantage and use the space as one room, with the dining furniture arranged as necessary. The oven and hood will be on the dining room side of the beam.
We've purchased pine boards to be used on the pantry walls and the wall that extends from the pantry to the sink. We won't have a door on the pantry like there used to be, but it will be styled more like cabinets. With all these really great pantry drawers we got from Ikea! :D
We took a ride to Ikea and got so many great ideas! We also came home with new counter tops and the pantry drawers. So this is where we're at right now. Enough to keep us busy for a while. As it is, we only have weekends to get any real work done.
The cabinets we have are oak so we will make use of some. The pantry will eliminate the need for all the cabinets we have and don't have room for. I like to have space and I'm not a person who collects things I need cabinets for anyway. My husband will use the ones I don't want in the garage to store his things.
While the garden lies under snow and the ground is frozen, we'll be busy in the house. Speaking of gardens ~ we just used the last of our garlic. We use much more garlic than I had imagined, so it's a very good thing that I planted twice as much this year as I did last year. Plus....I gave my daughter her own to plant (and she did) so that she would not do so much grocery shopping in my yard as she did last year ;)
I bought her the "You Grow Girl" book. She's growing herbs on her window sill now and garlic on her rear porch. I suggested that they build some grow boxes around their swimming pool. I believe that the gardening bug has bit them.
All for now. God bless.
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| | Posted 12/26/2007 1:27 PM - 6 comments
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