Bradley installed a new light over the kitchen sink for me. While he was at it, he wired some under-cabinet lighting into the same switch. We have really missed the under-cabinet lighting that we had at our old house for the past three years living here. I don’t have a before picture, but the light …
Category Archives: Kitchen
Progress Report: Year 2 in Review
We started out year two in what we call our forever home by having four large pine trees and four large Sweet Gum trees cut down. The pine trees were buckling the driveway and the sweet gum trees, in addition to their annoying gumballs all over the yard, were in decline and needed to go. That …
Kitchen Lighting
We spent the weekend putting up a new light in the kitchen. I say weekend, not limited to a simple switch-out one morning like I expected, because like so many house-related projects, things are rarely ever that simple. The fluorescent light that came with the house, which is never the kind of light you want, was …
Progress Report: Kitchen
I’ve been dragging my feet, but I finally buckled down and painted the kitchen last weekend. Because it was red when we moved in, I wanted to prime it before painting, so that meant double the cutting in around cabinets, three doorways, a window, chair-rail, crown moulding and countertops. I consider myself pretty good at …
Half Way There – Kitchen Update
The top section of our kitchen cabinets are painted and the doors are re-hung with new hardware. I purchased all of my brushed nickel knobs and pulls from ebay after finding their selection to be better and prices to be much lower than Home Depot. At this point, it is hard to know how I …