New Beginnings-Posted by Erin

I've been a little apprehensive about making a post of our kitchen progress...mostly because things have gotten pretty ugly around here. What started out as a small cabinet painting project turned into tearing the walls, pipes and studs out and starting new. My husband and I had no idea that there was so much damage lurking underneath the drywall and behind the cabinets in our kitchen. There are definitely disadvantages to tearing your kitchen out (i.e. what seemed like ten trillion trips to Home Depot and eating pizza every night because your kitchen is in shambles), but the biggest highlight so far has been the fun of putting it all back together. I get to choose exactly how my kitchen is going to look. When we bought our house I knew that there would be a few improvements made, but I didn't expect a full kitchen remodel almost immediately after we moved in. So far we have done all the work ourselves and thus the process is going a little slower than we would like, but we know these things take time (and money!). So I guess what I'm getting to with this blog post is that sometimes things have to get pretty ugly before they can get pretty. Stay tuned for the pretty if you like. 

The yucky mold was from a drain leak before we bought the house.

My husband tearing out the last 1980's knotty pine cabinet. What a relief...