Monday, June 2, 2008

Handy Man

Mark and I have lived in this house for a few years now and we thought it was about time we decided on some fixer-upper projects.  

Our kitchen has been lit by one single solitary 75 watt light bulb the entire time we've lived here.  There was some under cabinet lighting, but only one worked.  Yesterday that all changed.  We now have 5 light fixtures PLUS I installed all new under cabinet lighting.    The down side to this is now we can see how dingy and pitiful our kitchen is, and we are depressed about it's ugliness.  So, now we're thinking about remodeling.  Limited remodeling.  We're considering taking out the wall that separates the kitchen from the living room and replacing it with a breakfast bar, and putting in new counter tops, probably Silestone but possibly just formica.  However, this would mean moving the dish washer to a new place, which in turn means re-routing some plumbing.... to me this sounds expensive, so we'll see if we actually do any of it.

Mark has become an HGTV addict.  Last night before going to sleep he told me that he feels he needs to stop watching all the house shows because he's getting too many ideas that we can't afford.  We'll see how that goes.

1 comment:

Barbara said...

the pool pictures are great and the weekend sounds like fun. Hopefully we'll all get to do something fun like that when we're in town in a few weeks!!!!