Favorites of the House

I love the view of the Tetons from our bedroom window in the morning.

This is my favorite part of the house.

Bill wired rope lights under all of the cabinets that work off of one switch. They are awesome!

The kitchen @ 90% finished!

We just couldn't wait any longer to get these out there!

 So even though we aren't all the way finished, here are the long awaited before and (almost) afters!

Remodeling the kitchen has been tiring, fun, challenging, and quite the learning experience. The most difficult part has been not having appliances or anything unpacked that we use in the kitchen.

But now that the kitchen is usable we plan on doing a lot of cooking... and eating!

We still have to put up the baseboards, seal the grout, put shelves in the glass cabinets and possibly the coutertops - but we are just glad that it is now functional :)

Kitchen Remodel Update...

In the last 3 1/2 weeks we have been working hard on the kitchen.

This is the progress so far!

Lights - 10 recessed lights installed, pendant over the sink installed

Cabinets - trimmed, primed & painted; put them back together and add hardware; get glass cut for the 4 that need it

Walls - painted, outlets moved down the wall, touch up paint

Ceiling - hole from old light filled and painted

Floor - laminate and particle board pulled up, some hardy backer laid to start tiling!, finish hardy backer and tile

Baseboards - install

Appliances - install a gas line for the stove; put them in and hook them up! (I can't wait until we get to this part!!)

We've had so much help from everyone and really appreciate it all! We should start tiling Friday night and could possibly finish Saturday! Then next week we will put the kitchen together. (Yay!!!)

Pictures to come... I will keep you on the edge of your seat until then!

Side note: People here refer to the area that we live as 'out of town'. It's so funny that we now say things like "I'm going into town." when we go to the grocery store or work. We laugh at ourselves when we say it because it's only actually 7ish minutes "into town"! But there are a couple benefits to living out of town. I've already told you about the view. I think because we didn't grow up here we appreciate it much more then people that have seen it their whole lives. This morning you couldn't see anything but fog and snow ... but when we pulled out of our driveway this morning there was a bull moose walking down the road! Another one of the benefits of living 'out of town'!