Friends were recently discussion kitchen cupboards.  A well organized kitchen thrills me, so I offered to photo-document what’s going on in my cabinets. When I designed this kitchen in the fall of 2008, I centered my thoughts around working zones and storage. I’m a ‘everything in it’s place and a place for everything’ sorta girl, so I designated space for what we use where we use it.  Primarily I selected IKEA drawers because they keep [...]

When we renovated the kitchen last winter, we installed a super deep single bowl stainless steel sink, the Numerar.  It is a sit-on-cabinet sink which means no countertop cutout, saving counter cost and effort.  This sink is so deep I can bathe the little dog in it and she can’t climb out.  Alex can soak or rinse a whole turkey.  It was only $159 from Ikea. But that’s not the best part.  Let me show [...]

Sorry for the delay in blogging. I’ve actually been doing most of the work and haven’t had time! Saturday, my Dad came over and we started to hang the upper cabinets. We realized we needed some hardware, and Alex needed a faucet to complete the sink project. Off to Lowes for the millionth time. We finally had a 10% off coupon, so we bought appliances, lights, faucet and everything else we thought we might need. [...]

Today Leonard and Alex worked on plumbing and finishing up electrical work. Then they installed the range hood, a Broan ‘Best’ 36 inch. It is quiet yet really powerful. It will be so nice to get heat out of the house instead of hearing the fire alarm go off every time Alex cooks. I worked on cleaning up after the boys and building cabinets. The first three boxes (including the sink cabinet below) were easy [...]