Good Morning!

I uploaded pictures from my camera today and there were 215 on there! This is a testament to how long it’s been since I’ve blogged. We did a tiny bit of work in the kitchen last weekend and yesterday and I’m pretty happy with how it is turning out in there.

First of all, this yellow, metal cabinet used to be on the wall in the left part of the picture. Yellow cabinet to match the yellow, plastic tile. AH. We pulled the cabinet off the wall months ago with some future plan in mind of buying a tall cabinet, pantry type of item to put in that corner for some more storage.

It was on this wall below making for a very awkward empty bottom half of the wall. Nothing really could fit underneath so it was just wasted space.

Yesterday afternoon, Aaron suggested a trip to Ikea (an attempt to procrastinate school work which clearly will work because I love a trip to Ikea). Well anyway, instead of Ikea, I suggested we go to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Edgewood.

We programed the address into my phone which now has a data plan (! we joined the rest of the world and can now access email from everywhere), and drove over to the store. OH MY That store is amazing! Amazing! They have so much furniture and housewares and it’s way cheaper than Goodwill. It’s like Construction Junction but better and cheaper. I was in awe.

We wandered and wandered and ended up like this, sitting on the curb with a cabinet.

Yeah, it wouldn’t fit in our car. No idea why we thought it would fit in the back of the Sentra… So we called Aaron’s parents who just happened to be sort of in the vicinity and we got it into the back of their Subaru.

And got it home:

Aaron switched the doors so they open from left to right and then we added hardware to match the rest of our cabinets. When we originally purchased the cabinets for the kitchen, we saw this big cabinet at Home Depot and thought about buying it for this purpose then however, it was $279 at Home Depot and we were trying to keep our costs down. This one cost us $150 and it’s the exact same thing!

It’s perfect and HUGE. They actually had another one of them at the ReStore and we’re thinking about buying that one also and putting it next to this one.

And here’s another before and after picture because they’re fun and it reminds me of how far we’ve come with this kitchen. (We finished painting the walls last weekend too which you can see in the pictures).

Here’s a before picture of the area to the right of the sink:

And here it is now. Yay! Dishwasher I love you.

We picked up a few other things at the ReStore yesterday. These little jars were $0.50 each. I’m going to store lentils and split peas in them.

And this little cheese cloche for $1.

And just another picture of the wall now that it’s painted. The little cloche is in the picture too.

Lastly, I’ve been meaning to post this for about a month now. My grandparents bought us a panini press and we love it!

Aaron grills his sandwiches and I’ve also cooked eggplant and chicken in it. Its great! Thanks Tutu and Papap!