The Great Kitchen Remodel gets underway

It's been a long time since I have blogged, but honestly I've been too busy to do it and with facebook, you can basically blog all day every day so the need for an actual cohesive blog seems to fall to the wayside. Someday I'll write about what I've been doing for the last year, but until then here is what I'm doing NOW. It is now time for the kitchen remodel to resume. We took time off because we were sick of it and we wanted to do other things, and we had Kinsley, and I started a small embroidery business and life in general happened. I guess that is what we've been doing in a nutshell. Anyway, we have ambitions for this remodel to be finished in time to have Thanksgiving dinner Griswold style at our house this year. I told him that I would agree to that IF the first floor remodel was done. So that's how we got our goal. We made a super long list of things that we'd like to get done, and tried to include as many details as possible. We are upgrading everything that you will see downstairs. The ceilings, walls, and trim are getting repainted, as well as the cabinets (YAY!) and the half bath, stairway and hall. I would like to paint the laundry room maybe, but we'll see. We hope to upgrade/add some lighting, and finish the whole thing up with... wait for it... NEW FLOORING!!! That has been bumped lower on the list for long enough. I am so sick of shampooing the carpet, but so grateful to my mom for donating her carpet cleaner to my cause. I plan to blog about out progress every day, but sometimes things happen and I won't get to it. I hope that you all enjoy seeing the progress as much as we will enjoy the finished product. Are you ready? Here we go..........