our kitchen

veni

vedi

vici

we purchased our home from its original owner. they had completed a redo sometime in the early 80s - but the kitchen had remained fairly original. complete with slide-out stove-top - which we perhaps foolhardily kicked to the curb. (it no longer worked.) the narrow kitchen upper cabinets had sliding pegboard doors. cool. but filthy. we replaced them with plexi. the counter top was a fab green and pink boomerang. very cool, but again had aged poorly and was replaced with baltic birch and white laminate counter tops. d rebuilt all the wooden cabinet doors and upper cabinetry, replicating them in the dining room. the carpet (!) and original lino underneath were replaced with cork. the 80s light fixtures were replaced with simple globes. the only real footprint change was moving the washing machine out to a newly created laundry room and building a breakfast nook where the dryer, and another door once stood. (details to follow.)

really before, kind of

i realized after posting about the bathroom earlier today that i didn't really include any before shots. i searched my files (boxes of prints! ahhh film!) and couldn't find anything decent. these are pretty much before. a little demo, wallpaper removed, new window installed - but you get the idea.

and yes. that is carpet.

process::product

this is how it usually works. (aka the story of our master bathroom.)

i see an idea somewhere. (in this case sunset magazine)


d takes it to the extreme. (in this case tearing the room back to the studs and starting from scratch while the girls and i were out of town.)


we live in a state of chaos for a while. (in this case not too long - though at the time it made me crazy.)


and somehow, with his own hands he transforms the space into the vision. (in this case - well in all cases - making me very happy.)

a place to start.

our living room the weekend we moved in. july, 2001. (that bump i'm resting my breakfast on is our first daughter e.)

we closed on the house in june. but d took a month to get things somewhat ready. carpet torn-up. floors refinished. wallpaper stripped. (sort of.) a deep cleaning.

the milo baughman chair came through d's parents. the wardrobe i purchased when we lived in that warehouse in mid-city that didn't have any closets. it's long gone. (thanks craigslist.) d build the table. the chair i am in he found curbside just before we found the house. he thought it was good omen that homeownership was headed our way, and had it reupholstered as a rocker for the nursery.

it was good omen.


same spot this morning.