IT IS FINISHED!!!!

The kitchen is done! It is absolutely gorgeous. I could not be happier. Now I have to get it back in service. However, before I can do that, I have to put the rest of the house together.......

I am soooo tickled at the job the cabinetmaker and my contractor Jim did!!! This was not a hardship at all. I really enjoyed the whole process. I have new friends and learned a few things. Not bad.

Jim came the other nite and took pictures and has already brought a couple people to see it. He is very impressed with the quality of the cabinets and is recommending them to a lady not too far from here. Like I said in a previous post...I will not buy retail any more. When I can get this awesome quality for a very, very good price from the Amish craftsmen in Apple Creek, OH, it is silly not to.

I have decided to change all the colors, so now I have to paint the whole thing all over again. Oh well, it is a good thing I like to paint. hee hee The colors will meld better with the new wood and countertops. The old colors helped with the pink floor and now look off. With no more pink in the house, I need to go with warmer neutrals. I am torn between putting off getting the kitchen and the rest of the house put together and painting first. I should paint first, but I am just really anxious to get this house back to some kind of normal. Maybe I can talk someone into helping me and get it done faster. OH Greg........

Well, must run and do something. I can still clean out cabinets and get the dust and such out of them. So off I go......

Turkey and then some....

OOOOOO.....I ate too much. I always do. We had a really wonderful day on Thursday. Lots of good company minus my pod mate :( ..... but we did get to talk to her....RoJo carried around her laptop with A's head talking away....they had found a way with the cameras and IM to hook up and have A there for a while. It was fun.

And now that I am home it is back to the grind. Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning......

The countertops come Tuesday or Wednesday. I cannot wait!!! I took Thursday off to clean and Friday I head over to Jasper, IN to see A and her new apartment. Will be another good weekend. Gonna eat German food....yummmmmmm.

I have discovered that cleaning this new floor is even easier than the last post. Just use water. Forget the chemicals....get a floor rag just damp with warm water and everything comes right off with none of the streaking that the chemical mist was leaving (that I didn't see until the sun shone across the floor....eeeeek). I am really glad this is getting better and better because there is an awful lot of this floor in this house now! Would be a real pain if I didn't like it so well.

I have been noodling where I want to put stuff in the cupboards etc. Mo had some good suggestions and I suppose I will figure it out sooner or later, but I really would like to get STARTED. I have to dig out the rest of the stuff I crammed into the back bedroom before I can even get to the kitchen stuff. Poo. I must essentially put the rest of the house together before I can even get really started on the kitchen....dummy....I packed the kitchen first...went into the room first...is behind all the other crap....poo. Oh well.....

I suppose I should get started on today's list. Cleaning my room (very eeek), putting away tools etc in the kitchen so they can set the countertops without having to move all my crap, laundry, hanging ceiling fans, and playing with colors for the walls....

I am thinking about changing the colors in here. Mo had a bunch of paint chips that we were digging thru to pick a color range for her livingroom....I found one I think will work better in here with the new cabinets and flooring. I like my cocoa colored walls, but the color isn't carried anymore and I can't fix the bangs on the walls. It also is only OK with the new wood floor/cabinets. I think the new colors will be WOW with the new wood floors/cabinets. And WOW is what it is all about.

OK...I am going....later......

It's gonna be a knobby kind of day....

Well, I'm up and the sun isn't. Yet. I think I will put the knobs on the cabinets today. They came the other day and I would like to get it done. I need to clean out all the cabinets and put in some nubbley stuff drawer liner stuff in some of them. Mo put it in her pots and pans drawers...good idea. Keeps the noise down...hee hee. My ex used to crab at me when I was putting away dishes and got to the pots and pans...he said it sounded like world war three and the pots were winning. Of course, that meant I was interrupting his television. But no more crouching on the floor and crashing around in the bottom of some base cabinet for me!!!! I have DRAWERS.

I really do like the kitchen and am just itching to get it in service....but can't. No counter tops yet. They are gonna make a big mess setting them and I need to wait till that is done and clean everything one last time...then I can put my house back together and MOVE OUT OF MY ROOM!!! I seem to remember at the beginning of this whole remodel, that I said I liked it in here...cozy I think was the word I used. NOT ANYMORE. I am going nuts stuffed up in here. Oh well, the end is nigh.....just not nigh enough for me. hee hee

I cleaned the floor last weekend and it cleans up sooooooo easy. I am loving this floor more each day. It can really take a beating and comes back to beautiful in a flash. Just mist it with this cleaner and dry mop. Easy as pie. I didn't think all the construction dust, crap, dirt, more crap would come up, but it does. I have one little scratch and that's all. And it is in a place that noone will find. At least I hope they don't.

Well, I suppose I should start the process....get showered, teethbrushed, meds taken, asthma inhalers done, eye drops in, get dressed.....then I can start on the fun stuff. Later.....