Big One Three: The Kitchen (or How Geoff Saved Christmas)

Our kitchen was the ugliest thing in our house. It had dark green cabinets, an old gray stained plastic countertop; an old, stained, cast iron sink; the windows were crappy (like in the rest of the house), and the walls were brown.


When Geoff came from Washington to visit, he helped us with it. First we ripped the countertop, the backsplash, and the sink.


Then, Geoff got us some white tiles for the countertop, and helped us install them

It was way fun, especially when we hammered the crap out of the sink.

We then painted the upper cabinets white, and the bottom ones black, and changed the handles. We sealed the tiles, and painted the wall light yellow. Very light yellow. We also removed the doors from the upper-right cabinets, filled up the hindge holes, and turned it into shelves.

New Windows

We replaced five of our ten windows. We changed both windows in the kitchen, both windows in the bedroom, and the bathroom one, which, by the way, was incredibly nasty. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it, so you'll have to take my word for it.

Old window. Not only dirty, but the sealer around the glass is coming out, they are impossible to open, and some of them were pretty rotten, like the bathroom one:




New window. These are really nice. They are not wood, so they won't rot. They have a double pane, and, what I love the most, they are guaranteed for life:

Front

We did this a while ago:

First, I made a little pathway between the fence and the porch. I thought it would look cool, but now I'm not sure:

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And, we painted the metal columns in the porch, which were just the original metal color (you can see it in the picture above).

Our Only Hope