Anyway, after many nights looking at photos while talking over long-distance and discussions of the pros and cons of house A over house B, we finally decide. Yes, this house wasn't exactly what we wanted. But it had a lot of what we did want. One level (old knees don't like stairs), all brick, nice level yard, nice neighborhood. Yes, this will do. We know due to some of the circumstances of our purchase that we will have to do a few things here and there. No problem. We've done small stuff here and there. We can do this.
Our first big project is the Kitchen: (don't you love that wallpaper!!)
Needless to say, the lovely wallpaper and the nice off-shoot cabinet there at the end just seemed to give me a sense of extreme claustrophobia with just a hint of vertigo.
At first we thought, well we can just move that one cabinet, and put the refrigerator there. Yeah, that would work. And we would replace that cabinet there on the end with a book-shelf. And we'll take out that corner cabinet without a lazy susan in it too. Why in the world would someone install a corner cabinet with no lazy susan in it! What were they thinking? Have they not SEEN HGTV?
Minor stuff!! We could definitely knock this out in a weekend. I have tools! I have the Home-Depot 1-2-3 Do-It-Yourself guide from 1995! We can do this.
Saturday comes. We get up early (no later than 8:30 or 9:00 am). We are excited. Our new kitchen will be so cool! We take everything out of the cabinets. We put on our work gloves. "Honey", I said "time to take down some cabinets!"
I get up on the ladder, I get my trusty Black-N-Decker cordless drill. I'll write about my wanting to build a statue to the person who invented the electric screwdriver another time. Let's just say that person is high on my list.
But back to the story, I get on the ladder with my trusty electric screw-driver. The wife is there ready to grab the cabinet as it comes loose. We are a well choreographed team of home-improvement pros. Oh, this isn't our first go-around. Remind me to tell you about the "Tile" project.
Down comes the first cabinet. SWEET! It was SO EASY!! We can do this. We'll have this done in no time. So we get the cabinet down where the 'book-case' will be.
Plan B:
Well, the book-case wasn't going to work out like we hoped. No big deal we can work around it. We take out the corner cabinet under where the book case was to be. We are going to slide that cabinet on the other side of the kitchen into this spot.
"Wait a minute..." "This isn't going to work.." "Wait we measured this!" "We thought about this!"
Plan C:
Well, the cabinets weren't going to go in as smoothly as we thought. Plus in the original plan, that's Plan A - subsection b - amendment 2.43 for those keeping up, actually said we were going to have to buy a cabinet for that spot there...
We stop and think it over again.
"You know, these cabinets ARE in pretty bad shape anyway." I said.
"Yeah I wanted to paint them anyway, I hate that shade of oak anyway." she said.
"Well since you were going to paint them anyway, why not just get some of those unfinished ones at Lowes like "Ken" and "Barbie"*? (*Names have been changed to protect the innocent.) I said.
"Yeah, that would just be better. That way they will match and we don't have to search over high-and-low for just the right thing."
"Good plan." I said and went to get the measuring tape.
Well, we need 2 of these, one of those, one that is 18-inches, one that is 36 inches.... We got the paper out and sketched it out. We talked over what we wanted. I measured. She measures. I measure again. She measures again. You have heard of that old rule 'measure twice-cut once'? Yeah, something like that.
We head out to Lowe's. They have 3 styles that we can buy off the shelf. One that is the basic-basic. One is the same color but different style to what we had. But the third. Yes, the third was perfect! It was a nice dark wood, it was sturdy, it was perfect. We get what we need and head back to the homestead.
Stay tuned.....
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