This is what the kitchen currently looks like right now. It's a bit of a mess, but isn't the light amazing? We pretty much don't need artificial light in any of the rooms in the morning (or for most of the day, really), which is pretty astounding for someone who's lived in a basement apartment for five and a half years.
We didn't get around to painting the trim (all of the trim in the house was this odd purplish-looking grey; one of my friends called it lavendar and it's kind of like that, but grey); we decided not to focus on things that we could paint even with cats in the house. Which is why the green painter's tape is still up.
The boxes in front of the buffet are the cookbooks, which I thought were going to live in the kitchen but won't fit. The pot rack is up. The KitchenAid, blender and beloved mixing bowls are hiding in the mini-island behind the pine table — we were going to set it up as a temporary island in the middle of the kitchen, but we couldn't find the nuts for the legs.
The white bench way off to the right is new. It's only 11" deep and the only thing I could find that would fit into the space. (We tore out a nicotine-stained, cheap-looking bookcase, only to realise that they had torn out the baseboard to install it. So we needed something there to hide the gigantic hole.) It is currently full of cookies.
The desk chair is living downstairs for now until we are finished painting the den and vacuuming the sun room. It's kind of entertaining because every time I sit in it, I roll backwards and topple something over. (Pierre says I'm not allowed to sit in it any more.)
The cabinets, cupboards and buffet innards are entirely done:
Of course, by "entirely" I actually mean "I've put everything that will fit into it away," rather than merely everything. There's a difference. Still, all of the necessary dishes, glasses, pantry foods and cookware are well and put away, and that makes me feel better.
We still haven't cooked yet, mind you; we've just heated things up. This is because the countertops currently look like this:
Which is not very helpful. (But those are clean dishes in the rack! I am not faking that!) The problem is that there are lots of things that we want to keep track of but don't technically belong in the kitchen; however, we don't have a proper entry setup right now (it's a Stefan chair and a bar stool; seriously), and so anything that we need to find again, we put it in the kitchen. I guess that's a kind of organization.
We added that new-looking light on the wall. The old one was a wall-mounted desk lamp. I think the previous seller must have bought them in bulk — there are several in the basement and I think the sun room light was the same, too.
The microwave is ... funky. That is all I will say about it. I do find it vastly amusing, though.
Off to the left and out of the picture there is a long mirror leaning against the window in front of the sink. (I thought I had included it in the picture, but I guess not.) It looks very silly and will be removed once we get the sink and vanity into the bathroom; until then, Pierre needs it to shave and I need it to brush my hair in the mornings. It's the only mirror in the house right now.
Ooh, wait, I actually do have a picture of that, from the paint-a-thon.
So yes, it's a bit odd, especially since there's a direct line of sight from the front door and it's sort of the first thing you might see. The paint rollers are still there, too, but the counter is slightly cleaner.
Pretty good, huh? I like the kitchen. I like the rest of the house, too, but it currently looks like this:
I call it the "unusable" phase.
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