Too cold and wet for sandals, not yet cold enough for sweaters or scarves. We have been working on cleaning out our messy garage these past couple of weeks and it’s nearly done. A pretty large collection of bags, boxes, and misc will be picked up today by a donation truck, and then hopefully this […]
Posts Tagged ‘kitchen’
seasonal transition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged housekeeping, kitchen on September 17, 2013 | 1 Comment »
thinking about colors a lot
Posted in Freya, tagged kitchen on May 11, 2013 | Comments Off on thinking about colors a lot
+ Thrift store score of the week: Four heavy glass bottles — two cobalt blue, two emerald green. Heavy, solid, and relatively petite, I think I will place them on top of a cabinet as kitchen decor. Ten dollars. + The new oven and stove perform significantly better than the old model. Even, reliable, hot […]
thinking outside the oven
Posted in Cooking and Food, tagged kitchen on April 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »
How to still prepare most of your meals at home when you have no oven, stove, sink, or dishwasher because your kitchen is being destroyed and rebuilt. 1. Paper plates and plastic cutlery. Try to get the kind that can be recycled or composted. Make food that is held in the hand to eat, like […]
no turning back
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kitchen on April 9, 2013 | Comments Off on no turning back
It’s really happening, our kitchen will finally be a place I enjoy. Yesterday our contractor came over and installed a new energy-efficient window over the sink, then walled-off the eastern-facing window and begin to prep the wall for painting as well as nailed new siding to the outside of the house where the window was. […]
hunger games
Posted in Books and Reading, tagged kitchen on April 7, 2013 | Comments Off on hunger games
I picked up some books at Goodwill a couple weeks ago and already finished them, darnit. I have carved out opportunities to read, and run out of books again. What I’ve read since March: Object of Beauty by Steve Martin: I actually liked this, it had a lot of interesting stuff about the art world, […]
before
Posted in Photos, tagged colors, kitchen on April 6, 2013 | 1 Comment »
And now, the before pictures of our kitchen. During and following the remodel I will take some matching “after” photos. Click each photo to see the large version. I forgot to tag it in the pictures, but the HIDEOUS stick-on floor tile is being replaced by glorious hardwood, all the way back to the fireplace […]
utilities
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kitchen on April 2, 2013 | 2 Comments »
This afternoon our power suddenly went out when a local transformer blew. Brian works from home and relies on power and wifi to do his job, so off he went to a local coffee shop to work. I stayed home and tried to nurse Audrey to sleep but she wasn’t having it. Freya sat up […]
tidy
Posted in Audrey, Freya, tagged housekeeping, kitchen on April 1, 2013 | Comments Off on tidy
This weekend I finished a couple of cleaning projects that have been on my list for a while: tidy and organize the downstairs closet, and swap out winter coats/shoes/scarves/hats for spring ones. The closet was a mess, had gotten to the point where we were just opening the door and throwing things inside. I basically […]
granite
Posted in Cooking and Food, tagged kitchen, remodel on March 29, 2013 | Comments Off on granite
Yes, I’ve been absent! Apologies. Keeping up is hard. The main thing occupying my time the past couple of weeks, outside of the usual hanging with the girls, is making plans to remodel our kitchen in about a month. It was actually sort of fun for me to go back and forth between Lowe’s and […]
thirty-day photo meme: day 27
Posted in Photos, tagged kitchen, sink on October 25, 2010 | Comments Off on thirty-day photo meme: day 27
27. a photo of last summer. Last July, we finally got rid of the horrible black kitchen sink and replaced it with a beautiful shiny white model instead. I was nesting it up pretty heavy at that point, so I took an inordinate amount of joy in this new sink.