The walls are painted and the cabinets are in! Some of the doors are still missing and there are a couple of holes that need to be patched, but the kitchen is transformed once again into an amazing room.
This is a picture after we were FINALLY done with painting. I took four days to get everything done: a day to prime and paint the ceiling each, a day to prime then a day to paint the walls. Our friend Maggie, who also happened to be 9 months pregnant at the time, came over to help us paint on the last evening. The fifth day was spent touching up the walls and visiting with Mom, who was in from Vermont for a business trip.
The next weekend was Memorial Day weekend, and we put in the cabinets with Kevin's help. The seemingly small task of staining and polyurethaning has consumed an entire month, but the payoff is tremendous! You can't even tell the difference between the existing and new cabinets. Add the perfect match to the fact that we have double the space and it makes all of the hard work worth while.
And finally, here are a few pics from when Mom was in town. We had a good time wandering around Oak Park looking at homes built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
