kitchen pictures! finally kitchen pictures!

If you've been impatient for these pictures, just imagine how I feel.
Yesterday my hardworking husband installed a pot rack, a coat rack, a door, and got the kitchen sink up and running. It's amazing how the little things make it seem like an actual home.
There is still quite a bit of work to do here, finish the island, the upper shelves, tile, flooring, etc. but we've come a long, long ways. Having a functional kitchen is so alien to us, we keep going to the living room looking for pans, and to the pantry to find a sink.

teaser

Just another one of those Before shots.

how to build a kitchen

First we built the soffit the kitchen cabinets sit in and furred out the exterior walls so we could get just a bit of insulation into our house. The cabinets will not always be a pile of boxes sitting in the middle of the living room. You can see our temporary kitchen-on-wheels setup in the first picture. This has been very convenient during construction, but very confusing when cooking and I can't remember if my pots and pans are in the living or the dining room!

goodbye, old wall

This was the very last piece of old wall in our kitchen. The last remnant of the old floor plan. Now nothing is left of the two bedroom apartment we first moved into. This is where our old much maligned trough sink used to reside. For some silly reason I felt a little sad to let it go, and even tried to talk Josh into reusing it in our new pantry. It now rests in our shed until I can think of a good use for it.