Friday, January 27, 2012

The Kitchen

It's been a cold, quiet week on Lombard Street, until today. We had one of our final detail meetings with our contractor who will be helping us renovate the kitchen.


I know, its hard to pick out your favorite part..the blue counters (believe me, they're way more attractive in this picture than they are in person), the weird hammer-head shape they have on the end of the counter, the white vinyl cabinets (unfortunately you don't have the pleasure of seeing how dirty they really are)....

This is the major project we have planned for the house, and hopefully we'll start with ordering the cabinets early next week. I think we're pretty settled on the Trevant cabinet from Armstrong in Mocha:

Ours are a little different as the drawer has the same detail as the door (the cut-out rectangle in the middle) but you get the idea. Tomorrow we're off to look at Granite samples. I did some preview shopping and have grown kind of attached to this one:



Its mostly grey with some brown tones mixed in. Hard to tell on a computer screen but we'll see what Skip thinks tomorrow in person!

We'll get our full plan from the contractor early in the week so stay tuned...

Friday, January 20, 2012

Welcome home

It's official, we're homeowners. Yikes!

We closed on our first house last week, and we're now in the middle of a seemingly endless cycle of contractors, cable companies, alarm installations, painters.... welcome to my new office: a folding table and chair in my empty living room. This is where I wait during the convenient 8-5 window (thanks Verizon) to have --insert service here--installed.


Someone suggested (thanks Gramma B!) that I should keep track of all the progress on the house and share it with you. First-time homeowner; now also first-time blogger.