DIY The Kitchen-To-Do-List: Progress Report!

This past times week, nosotros knocked 2 whole things off the kitchen-to-do-list!

While I would prefer to live on the speedy hare who rebuilds his entire kitchen on his dejeuner break, I direct hold to settle for existence the tortoise who makes teeny tiny steps towards the complete line.

I may never larn there, but you lot tin bet these niggling turtle legs volition at to the lowest degree larn an honorable cite for effort.

I'm pretty certain that the turtle is supposed to win inward that analogy, but let's live on realistic.

Anyways, I'm super excited to present you lot a dyad of teeny tiny updates that we've made recently.

Last fourth dimension nosotros visited the kitchen was dorsum inward April when I painted our kitchen cabinets together with replaced the hardware. It made a huge touching on on the expect of the kitchen, but didn't attention much alongside the function. The basic occupation is that nosotros direct hold nigh 2 inches of cabinet space.

You may retrieve that this cabinet is where I shop all of my pots, pans, toasters, java machines, tupperware, casserole dishes, together with 4 infant giraffes.

I tried to brand it a niggling amend past times icon it, but plainly that didn't attention alongside the lack of infinite issue.

This infinite has non been this fix clean together with empty since the solar daytime I took this picture. In reality, it's a total hot mess, together with there's non plenty room for even one baby giraffe...or to a greater extent than than three pots.

My ideal scenario would live on to expand the kitchen nigh 4 feet into the following bedchamber (which has a giant cupboard that I could cutting inward half, as it would live on amend served as kitchen space), but that's but an sentiment I've been pondering together with I direct hold no plans to knock downward walls anytime soon.

So, for the fourth dimension being, I had to expect for slowly options to attention growth our storage space. Rather than go out for to a greater extent than space, it dawned on me that I could instead go up!

See this perfectly practiced empty infinite to a higher identify the sink...just waiting for me to mess alongside it?

I direct hold wanted to hang a pot rack since the solar daytime nosotros moved in, but I kept putting it off because all of the ones I institute locally were nearly $200.

So, instead, I purchased this stainless steel pot rack online for exclusively $63. (Amazon Affiliate link) I was a niggling curious to detect out if it would live on a character rack or non since it was thus inexpensive, together with was thus pleased when it arrived inward but few days together with was gorgeous. Score 1 for the contend hunters!

I was able to hang all of my pots from it, together with it frees upwardly thus much infinite inward my cabinets!
Plus, I but genuinely honey the agency it looks.
And did you lot notice the other novel addition?

We replaced the faucet!
When the sort folks at Moen generously offered to allow us direct hold their Annabelle faucet for a spin, nosotros jumped at the chance, knowing our ain niggling faucet was on its concluding leg.

I've never shared a moving icon of our quondam kitchen faucet on the weblog before. I ever cropped it out of the pictures.

But, today's your lucky day.

Meet Faucet, Jr.

He was a difficult worker, together with fifty-fifty though he was falling apart, he was a practiced boy. We've been through a lot over the past times few years.

But all practiced things must come upwardly to an end, together with it was Junior's fourth dimension to retire to greener pastures.

Luckily, Jesse is cracking at crawling into the places I don't desire to crawl into, thus I enlisted his attention alongside installing the novel fancy faucet.

It took him less than an hour, together with he was oh thus really patient as I bounced approximately taking pictures of our cats....who had really unlike ways of dealing alongside the kitchen chaos.

You may retrieve concluding calendar week when I showed you lot this look of terror on Cheese's face.

This 1 was taken nigh 30 minutes subsequently after she had apparently reached her limit. (Keep inward remove heed all she is doing is but watching Jesse quietly install a faucet.)

So, after a niggling chip of kitchen chaos, here's the kitchen faucet! I've wanted to supplant this faucet for thus long, thus this is a total mini-kitchen-dream-come-true.

I chose 1 alongside the 'spot resist' technology scientific discipline that resists fingerprints together with H2O spots, together with it is amazing. Who knew that materials genuinely works?! I also honey that it has a pulldown spray head. I'm ever washing off paintbrushes or something as messy, thus this characteristic genuinely comes inward handy.

But my favorite characteristic is the built inward lather dispenser. Our sink ledge is kinda narrow, together with our quondam lather dispenser was ever falling into the sink. It drove me absolutely crazy. Now, all nosotros direct hold to do is create total the lather container underneath the counter in all likelihood 1 time a month. It's genius.

So, those are the 2 really wonderful things nosotros knocked off the kitchen-to-do-list this past times week!

After icon the trim and walls, icon the cabinets, replacing the hardware, icon the tile, icon the grout, icon a chalkboard wall, together with directly a novel faucet together with pot rack...we are genuinely moving along! Here's what the kitchen looks similar as of today.

And if you're curious, hither are the things yet left on my to do list. (Well, my reasonable list. I've got a crazy list, too.)

Here's a quick breakdown.

1. Replace the thrift shop chandelier alongside a genuinely cool crystal chandelier flushmount. My niggling chandy is a tad as good large for our depression kitchen ceilings.

2. Put prissy wooden blinds on our windows.

After three years of having peeping eyes into our kitchen on a daily basis, you'd intend I would movement this 1 upwardly the list.

3. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 prissy rug...perhaps a colorful stripe.

4. Some colorful fine art betwixt the windows

5. Comfier barstools.

Now, let's rapidly beak over #5. You may retrieve when I spray painted my thrift shop stools silver. While I yet intend they expect great, I've been keeping my oculus out for something comfier. I similar to sit down at that spot a lot together with work, thus I'm certain my behind would appreciate it if I institute something cushier.

I saw these at Marshall's but yesterday, together with I was 2 seconds away from hauling them home, but realized that they were as good short. They were exclusively $99 each, together with absolutely perfect for what I needed. Aren't they cute?

So, the search continues for cute together with comfy barstools.

I'll maintain you lot inward the loop on whatsoever discoveries.

Until then, I'll but taste the progress we've made! So, that's all for today! Thanks for stopping by!

And a large give thank you lot you to Moen for allowing us to taste their Annabelle faucet! You tin banking concern represent out all of the beautiful faucets Moen has to offering here.

'Til following time!