The Kitchen Cabinets AGAIN! It s always something right?? I had thought we had the kitchen cabinets all figured out but alas.not quite. The cabinet guys had an opening in their schedule and because the guys working on the house are coming along so well we can get our cabinets squeezed in to the cabinet makers schedule. Good news!! We won t be waiting for cabinets. We ve had a tentative look and design but it was time to get to the nitty-gritty. We had a plan that looked like this The cabinets to the left of the refrigerator were going to be replaced with this antique cupboard.
The cupboard won t go to the ceiling like the ones pictured from the cabinet maker but I m okay with that. Right now with the kitchen the way it is there is VERY little decorating space. I ll put some antique things on the top of the this cupboard and all will be well. Our island is going to be different. It will be this butcher block.
and this baker s cabinet Hubby and I refurbished butted together. We had originally wanted our TV over the refrigerator but ran into a technical problem. Remember the upper set of cabinets that I bought from the for sale group for $300?? (Shown upside down here)
Well the hinges are on the outside of the doors. That makes it impossible for them to make pocket doors for the television it they are going to match the construction of this cabinet. We said just skip it and make it a cabinet. We ll just keep the television on top of the refrigerator like we do now or mount it on the wall. We re pretty flexible. All of this lead to another problem. They can t find hinges like the ones of the upper cabinets. That didn t really bother me.they can find hinges like the first cabinet has that I showed you. The cabinet makers are perfectionists and this worried them. Not me. Honestly, I don t care about stuff like that. If someone hadn t told me, I likely wouldn t even have noticed. It s all figured out now the hinges on the newly made cabinets will match the first cupboards hinges. It doesn t bother me a drop. I do have to say that I am glad that our cabinet guys are doing all they can to match the cabinets though. We had originally thought we d put a built in cabinet on the wall next to the laundry room door. After considering this and problems with plumbing and heating, we are moving away
from the built in cupboard. The plumbing and heating guys ended up having to make the wall to the right thicker to house the pipes and ducts that need to go to the upstairs. The wall is about 6 thicker. It would make the cabinet not quite as usable. We have an old antique wash stand that will likely get a little up-do and we ll use that there instead. The microwave will sit on it. This is always something we can add later if we want.it would be much harder to take it away. Along the wall to the right will go the big (formerly white) cabinet I ve been stripping.
Now back to the first view I showed you As we finalized plans we added a spice cabinet one of the cupboards near the stove. We added a recycling to the lower cabinet way to the left of the sink. But we didn t tackle the stove hood. I told the cabinet maker to just price a wood one. UGH. $1300 just for it!!
No thank you. I m a cheapskate and although this is suppose to be my dream house, I don t dream that a single house payment would have to be made just to pay for a stove hood. I just can t bring myself to doing that. I told our cabinet guy to just put in a regular hood. That changed the cabinets then Do we want this or do we want little cabinets going across the top like over the sink? Honestly another thing I really don t care about. I ended up having to find Hubby in the combine and let him decide. We re going with the picture as is. There will be taller cabinets over the stove. I still get people telling me I should not have the tall
window in the kitchen. It happened again just the other day via a note from a blog reader. Of all the things with the kitchen, it s one of the things I actually do care about. I am a farm girl and have lived in old farm kitchens.all have had good windows. The window over my kitchen sink is tiny. I want a big window. I want lots of natural light. I don t want a bunch of can lighting put in to give me light I want real light. I want my grand-kids and my dog to have a window they can see out of. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I ll have the island for more counter space and I have yet to see a lazy susan or corner cupboard that I like. It s funny during this remodeling process there have been thing after thing after thing that I could care less about but the window, I do care about. I want it. Thankfully, Hubby agrees with me so that s good. I d have fought for the tall window! So that s the latest on the kitchen I can t wait to be actually cooking in it! If I m truly honest, I d be happy to be cooking in the kitchen here for a Hubby that comes home before 9 pm at night. Harvest is getting long.