Stovetop or Broiled
That's how our meals come for now. For some reason, Paul thinks a $30 coil is cheaper than the sweet $360 oven I had all picked out (Lowe's of Mebane has it at the same price). The big window, the glass cooktop, the shiny white finish, the timer, the two big burners. Oh well, maybe next year. Maybe tax return time...

In the meantime, the Appliance Doctor is supposed to re-open on Monday, so maybe we'll have an oven again in a couple days' time. Lowe's of Mebane does NOT stock our bake element.

Labels: kitchen, small appliances

- posted by Lenise @ 8:50 PM |

 
Improvements
Dad (aka Grandpa) and Uncle Todd swapped out
these















and installed these

out with the bland and in with the cool =] (OK, the compact fluorescents kinda ruin the effect, but they'll burn out soon, right? Maybe in the next 5 years?)

Labels: bathroom, family, kitchen

- posted by Lenise @ 9:19 PM |

 
Close Enough
The backsplash hasn't been grouted (or fully installed, I don't think), but it's close enough to done that I will stop holding all two of you in suspense and will finally post photos of the transformed kitchen.
Before:





























































After:

Labels: home improvement, kitchen, Old Houses

- posted by Lenise @ 9:36 PM |

 
Hooray!!


From this








to













this today!

Labels: home improvement, kitchen, Old Houses

- posted by Lenise @ 7:45 PM |

 
It's Gonna Get Worse Before it Gets Better


So we have a few gaping holes in the kitchen at the moment. You may be able to make out the beadboard ceiling under the drywall in the missing-top-of-the-doorframe photo. I'm probably going to ask about taking down the drywall, but it's probably much more difficult than removing '70s den paneling, and much less egregiously out-of-place. Most of the beadboard looks like it's in good shape, but it's going to need a good scrubbing before it'll take a coat of paint. I'm leaning towards yellow like the one you can see in the chaos photo, since we have roughly that color left over from the "nursery" and I was liking the idea of yellow anyway. I'm not sure there's enough, though. Would it be a bad idea to mix it with white? We could always go back to SW and get some more "Jonquil", I'm sure.

So, the green paint was not a revelation, since I'd been able to spy some out in a gap between the paneling. There's some beadboard patchwork which would indicate that the windows are replacements for a 3' x 5' original, which are in all the other rooms except the bath (and there were already some minor ridges visible in the bathroom which would seem to indicate the casement window is shorter and higher than what used to be there). There's also a large hole in the beadboard towards the back of the kitchen that makes me wonder if there was a chimney there. I may share that photo later.

Labels: home improvement, kitchen, Old Houses

- posted by Lenise @ 10:34 PM |