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!

this past month

Let me catch you up on the happenings around here. For my birthday, Josh brought me a JoJo! Then he proceeded to make us all sick. Jo and I went to Butte, but there were too many vampires (and so much digging!) so we had to leave. Then I had jury duty. Then Josh and I went to Missoula to see Wilco and Greg. Which was as awesome as you might expect.
Oh, that, and we put in the kitchen.

Josh used to look like this

Josh wanted me to snap a couple of pictures before he cut all of his hair off, just so he could remember how pretty it was.

and then installs lights

Having lights is nice.

josh paints

This was not a fun weekend.

new pantry

Here's the new pantry, aka the old bathroom. We inherited the cabinet from a friend who recently remodeled and painted it candy-apple-red, then searched forever for a white countertop, and eventually ordered a taupe one. This will be a temporary kitchen sink setup for a while untile the new one shows up. It's also a welcome storage space, since our kitchen is soon becoming a major construction zone. I still need to get some pull for the cabinet doors and a little hook for a towel, as you can see above.

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.