House in Flux

We're still here and still doing well. But our house is not our own. Our kitchen is undergoing a homemade facelife (painting the cabinets -- inside and out -- and walls, and giving the cabinet doors some character with moulding, adding crown moulding, etc.) So NOTHING is where it should be. We have dishes in the living room, tupperware in the den, all of our pantry items on the dining room table (thank God we have a patio table outside at which to eat our meals), all glassware is on top of the piano, and our silverware and serving utensils are in baskets strewn about the house. Not a fun way to live!

On top of all of that, we've hired an electrician to come install new recessed lights in the kitchen, living room and both of the kids' bedrooms, plus rewire some switches, install new outlets and install ceiling fans in the kids' bedrooms, too.

As if that wasn't enough, we also hired a tree service to come and clean up the old, overgrown trees in our backyard. So our family of five has been hiding out in the kids' playroom all week to stay out of everyone's way! (At least the boys had a ball watching the tree guys climb our huge trees and cut down the branches.) Now that the electrician and tree guys are gone, we can continue with the kitchen.

So far, the cabinet frames are all sanded, cleaned, primed, painted, and sealed. About half of the doors have the new moulding on them and are primed. Some of the cabinet doors are painted and back on the frames. We still need to paint the other doors and drawers, and prime and paint the walls after Ron patches all of the holes (we waited on the walls for the electrician to be done). Last step there will be for Ron to install the crown moulding on top of the cabinets and buy a few new accessories.

No pics this week of the "during" process (sorry!) but I promise some before and after pics when it's all done. Can't wait for our kitchen's new look!