The bank sent out their inspector and she checked off the
last of the boxes. According to her, this house is finished!
But still there is the kitchen.
Really, it’s fine. It’s functional. But it’s not super
functional, and it’s kinda gross. We don’t use most of what space is available
because we are still a little grossed out by the mouse situation that existed
when we first moved in. In theory everything is clean and completely safe now
but these are our babies we’re talking about, you know? So we just don’t use
those cabinets or shelves and we plan to upgrade.
I’ve been reading Heart & Home over the past few days
and getting so inspired! This little book, by Victoria Duerstock, is actually a
devotional centered around interior design. I had certainly never heard of
anything like that but I was already trying to imagine our kitchen so I jumped
at the chance to read it and review it here.
Duerstock's style does not perfectly match my own personal
style, but her tips are tips that will work for anyone.
Right now our kitchen just exists right along that back
wall. The tall cabinetry on the right is delightful and I’d love to use it as
pantry space, but alas… the longer bottom cabinet has no shelving in it since
it was used for mops, brooms, and cleaning supplies. There was quite a bit of
ick factor in the bottom of that cabinet so Ryan cleaned it out really well but
we still can’t bring ourselves to keep anything in the lower half. The top half
is great but I can’t really put much in there because I’m short and would need
to pull everything out to reach the things in the back. I’d like to put in a
very similar setup when the time comes, but I’d like to do it with pull out
drawers coming out of the cabinets so I can use it as a more accessible pantry
space.
The kitchen sink is wobbly, just laid into the top of that
countertop, and I’m quite afraid of the moldy mess that’s probably lurking in
the space we can’t access to clean. The upper and lower cabinets work fine to
me, but the counter space is really funky since it drops off at the edge and is
then too low to really work at. All of those drawers except for the top two are
not being used because, again, quite a bit of ick factor when we first moved
in. On the lower half of the cabinet there are several shelves, but they’re all
really icky so we don’t use them. I also can’t actually reach the back half
because of the placement of the oven.
I would like to get rid of the oven and instead turn this
all into an L-shaped counter and cabinetry. I like to use a large toaster oven
instead of a big conventional oven anyway so it would make more sense for me to
get a gas cooktop or a high-quality hot plate instead of permanently taking up
space with that giant appliance I don’t use every day anyway. I’d like to add an
upper cabinet over the space where the oven currently sits too.
All that’s left after that is the window! It currently bears
some very old bamboo blinds that don’t really do much at all. That’s a huge
window but I’d love to give it some modern, functional blinds that allow me to
let it or block out the sunlight at different times in the day.
I have no idea when we’ll actually get started on this but
we hope it’ll be somewhat soon so we can fully move in! Right now we still have
about half of our kitchen stuff up in boxes and it’s starting to get really
old. In the meantime I guess I need to figure out what color cabinets to do (I
always like dark and think that would go best with our new trim?) and what kind
of countertops should go with them (uhhhhh?).
*I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review
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