Living in My Beautiful Kitchen

It is hard to pick a favorite place, but my kitchen is definitely a great space. It is sunny and bright and spacious. I like the deep windowsill and the farmhouse sink. Great for washing those big pots.

Here you can see the two colors of granite counters.

I love cooking in this kitchen. It has taken me some time to decide how best to organize it,

 but that is a good problem to have!

It has been a few years since I cooked with gas, but I like it and am glad to get back to it.

The motawi tiles on the backsplash I showed close up on a previous post.

The white tiles are subway tiles and there is a green glass accent tile.

This picture shows my island and the great light fixtures!

 My old cookstove has it's own special place, next to the door to the pantry.

And on the other side is the butler's pantry, the breakfast nook and the door to my office.

This is the pantry.

So come on over for lunch!

My Craftsman Influence Kitchen

This is finally starting to look like a completed kitchen!

The top drawer has to be cut down because it hits the gas line.

 The tile backsplash  --  white subway tiles with green glass tiles and Motawi Tileworks tile accents.

The lights over the sink and over the island are all from Schoolhouse Electric in Portland.

All the appliances are in except the refrigerator. We are using the refrigerator we have in our current house.

The island and this cabinet are stained oak.

I am so anxious to get moved in and actually use this kitchen.

But as you can see we are kind of living out of the pantry! : )

Plumbing, Propane and Satellite Connections

Everyday something gets done. Sometimes it is not much but it is something.

This week we got some more plumbing done - and we passed the septic inspection done by the health department!

The propane tank was set and the lines run.

And I'll have to get some pictures of my kitchen in the next blog entry

because we did get the kitchen backsplash tiled, 

the globes put on my Schoolhouse Electric lights, and the appliances all installed.

I do have this picture of Bryan installing the range hood.

None of the appliances were super easy!

 It seems we ran into some kind of weird issue with every one of them.

We also got the DirecTV and the internet working thanks to our tech pros from Audio Innovations.

We have a system called Control 4 that lets us access our TVs, lights and speaker system etc. from our computers and phones.

But we had to go with satellite internet which seems pretty good so far.

The big drawback is the data limit. No streaming movies, music etc. for us.