Update for this year's projects.

The 5 week project that turned into 3 months........

Well, I promised pictures of the kitchen remodel.  Here are the before and after pics.

That wall with the cabinets on one side and the china cabinet on the other is gone.  That was scary.  It started making a lot of noises but the house is still standing. 

I confess, we still need to caulk the baseboards and do some touch up painting.  I swear, every time somebody did anything, I had to repaint.  Some places have 3-4 coats already.  I never covered up my kids' doopers on the walls that much!  :)  Come to think of it, they didn't have doopers. H


Now that it's all said and done (wonder where that phrase came from), I can't picture it any other way.  I don't even regret painting the pantry tangerine orange and I love my Mason Jar light in the pantry.  

This is the after on the fire place.  No idea where the before picture is.  What is black now was this glossy dove grey porcelain tile.  The fireplace surround is approx. 120 years old and Jonathan and I built the hearth.  It is now painted to match.

Shout out to BECKY, thanks for finding the fireplace surround.

These projects have kept us from really aggressively gardening this year.  We only have potatoes, Egyptian onions, and three kinds of tomatoes this year.  I may or may not plant other things.

We have an actual plan for converting the backyard to ag but since we will have to terrace, it will be a 5 year plan.

My other project for the summer is sorting out the loom room.  Everything that we didn't know where to put or what to do with ended up on the loom room.  Now I have some weaving that I need to do, I've got to have room to do it.  Every house needs at least 1 loom.  At one point, I had 6.  I've cut back a little and just have 4 now.  2 with projects and 2 without.

HAPPY TRAILS.........