A time for new beginnings.............

I was on Spring Break this week and we did a little bit from our list of things to do.  I finished up the drawers from the kitchen and Terry got all the knobs and pulls on.  We are debating over what to put between the cabinet and counter tops.  I know I want stamped metal behind the stove but can't decide whether or not to carry it around under all the cabinets.  So many choices!

One morning I woke up to let the chickens out and it looked like jewels in my front yard.

The chickens didn't care about any of the beautiful things - they wanted breakfast and were in a big hurry!

We also had visitors this week.  They are like you crazy, old aunt that makes a lot of noise and never wants to be forgotten.........LOL

Max had to say hello also.

They stayed a little while and rested before moving on.  We have had several pairs stop and rest.

I transplanted and trimmed my rosemary bush.  Not sure if it will be happy in this pot and I need to settle it down a little more.  This is one of my only plants the chickens did not eat last summer.

AND we worked on cedar boards.  We trimmed them, planed them, measured them, and hung them.  We finished most of the living/dining.kitchen area today.  We have about 8 feet let of the ceiling to do in this room.

We started over the kitchen ceiling as well.  There is 8 feet to finish in this room.  We have not started on the laundry room or the closets yet.

Our bedroom is now finished - ceilings, walls, trim and baseboards.

Bedroom from the northeast corner.

And the last wall with the tv.  My amazing husband made a floating shelf to hide all the cables and things in.  It looks so different in there.

Kitchen ..... part 2

 Still working........cabinets are in and "stuff" is put away.

 

I painted all the doors and got them ready to go on Friday.  Then I hung them all on Saturday.  I was too tired to paint the drawers so I left them until Sunday.

Other angle:

My kitchen table no longer holds the contents of the entire kitchen.  I also got a new fruit bowl this week. :)

Ok.......drawers painted but no knobs yet.

This will be what it looks like once the cedar is up.

And today's results!  Knobs are on all but two drawers.  I picked up the wrong on for two.

I did decide to put the pulls on the fake drawers and think it looks good.  We'll see about the polishing affect when washing dishes.

I washed my countertops for the first time in 4 years.  That was exciting!

Finally....more progress!

Scooter likes the trip to Sam's Club too!  This was a box the boston butts came in.  He thought it was perfect for sleeping out of the wind.  Maybe I need to make him a cedar box to sleep in.

ANYWAY!!!!!  We finally have more progress to share.  A snoop around Craigslist got Terry thinking about kitchen cabinets again and we decided to go and price cabinets.  At one store, for two base cabinets, it was going to be $600 for finished white cabinets.  We went to a discount builders store and got unfinished birch cabinets with plywood shelves for $500 for 2 base cabinets and 4 wall cabinets.  SO this weekend we dismantled part of the kitchen.

After much stress with painting, we were ready to install the wall cabinets.  Terry had never hung cabinets before so this was an interesting process..........hahaha.

He actually did quite well with only having to adjust the cabinets once.

Level and plumb!

Cabinets are in all but the lazy susan for the corner on the floor. We have some questions about it still.  Off to Lowe's to get knobs and pulls for the drawer.

I like the house to be fairly clean so having the kitchen throw up all over the rest of the house was stressful!

Putting the doors on.  The handles and paint finish as well as the pattern on the door are all very old fashioned looking.  That is what a cabin should be like.......right? 

One wall nearly complete!  Hopefully the corner cabinet will go in tomorrow and then we will be able to get the next two cabinets with this week's paycheck.

It has been 18 months of living in the house with shelves for cabinets.  It sure looks funny in here!  haha  I will get better pictures after the corner cabinet goes in..........in a $1000 we might have counter tops, too!