Home Sweet Home

  It has been quite some time since I have written here and there has been lots of change over the past few months.  We have been living in our new house for nearly two months so I figured I should take some time to go through the house room by room.  We will start in the kitchen.

So this was the kitchen when we first visited the house, these pictures were stolen off of the realty website.  :)  Notice the wooden ducks on top of the cabinets.  Fancy.

  As you can see, there was also no stove.  Thanks to my father who gave us the money to buy a new stove as a house warming gift, that empty hole you see is now filled with a five burner gas stove that cooks like nothing I have ever cooked with before.  :)

More ducks!  There is however, a nice slab of granite over there around the sink.

  The kitchen is great, very spacious, but the decor left nothing to be desired.  So after a warm coat of almond paint, we decided to tear out the the 1990's flooring which revealed beautiful, warm, wood floors.

  What a difference the floors made in the kitchen, it looks like a completely new space.  Now, to address the cabinets, which actually are very nice, I just added some new knobs to take away the country vibe.

On the bottom are the old knobs, and on top are the replacements.  Just a little swap makes a world of difference.

  You probably noticed that there is not much counter space in this old 1920's house.  All we had when we moved in was the small section of butcher block next to the hole where the stove now lives, and the granite on the sink portion of the counter.  To address this problem, we bought 2 units from ikea and put them back to back in the middle of the kitchen.  We love them!

  We have since gotten stools to go under the table portion of the island, and added curtains and a new ceiling fan to the space.  I can now say that I love my kitchen and all of it's character.

  Because we have not really done much in the dining room, I will add it to this blog.  The paint color in the dining room was fine, and the floor had already been redone.  All we bought for this space was the rug, everything else is stuff we had from the condo.

  We also replaced the glass, and blades from the outdated ceiling fan, and still plan to replace the knobs on the lovely built in.  

  So that is the kitchen and dining room so far, and I will end this blog with a picture of the view of the deck from the dining room.  This picture was actually taken in the middle of the tornadoes.  I was trying to capture the eerie yellow color outside, but it does not really show.  Either way, you can see our deck and the wonderful fenced in yard.

Thanks for reading!