In the Kitchen With Eartha

They did it! Those guys that I wouldn't trust to tie my shoes actually got the appliances into our house and nothing was destroyed. Three cheers!

We now have a kitchen. Three hundred cheers! Here are some photos of how it looks now.




We went with a basket weave pattern that I saw in an old illustration somewhere. It's sort of Christmas-y but I love green and red with wood. The shoe molding looks strange in this photo but I swear that the whole kitchen has it.

The floor is super shiny right now and I'll be glad when the finish goes down some and it looks more aged. Which should take about a week with four cats. It was so funny because when we let the kitties back into the kitchen for the first time, Mishka wouldn't walk on the beige squares. It seemed like she thought she was going to fall into oblivion or something!  

Here is a tray that I found at an estate sale this morning. I think that it will look great hung above the stove to help bring the red in more. 

Since the job took so long, Mr. Kitten Pants grew from a kitten into well, Mr. Cat Pants. I am now having to teach him not to climb on the counters (uggh) OR do this new trick:

These are the lighted niches that are waaaay up next to the ceiling. He gets up there and screams for help. It's kind of hilarious but at the same time, I draw the line at having cats climbing all over my kitchen like mountain goats. I do need a little cat free zone from time to time.

Was the job perfect? Not so much. Are there things about what they did that we'd change? Definitely. In the end, we decided that we live in a fifty six year old house and well, things are going to be jacked up sometimes. Even new things. But we're satisfied with it for the most part and decided that as long as it was near perfect, we were going to put a lid on it.

For those of you who have been following the progress (and lack thereof) of the kitchen, do know that the Mister and I have big plans to raise a ruckus to everyone that we can think of about how we were treated by the construction company and their subcontractors. We've taken detailed notes and photos throughout this whole process and we're not going to let it slide. We hope that by doing so, maybe we will save other families from having to live through what we lived through. Did I tell y'all that I thought that I was having a heart attack the other night? It was totally, totally, TOTALLY stress but for a few fleeting moments I thought, "This kitchen is going to kill me. I'm going to die because of a KITCHEN!". Well after thinking that I wasn't wearing a bra and that I didn't want to be hauled away to the slab that way. 

I'm too exhausted to start unpacking boxes but I'm sure it will happen this weekend. Tonight, I'm going to make my first meal in the new kitchen. It's only going to be taco soup - which means I will dump a bunch of cans into a pot - but since a pot is about the only thing that I can find right now, I think it will be perfect!

I hope that you all have fun weekend plans. Here in Tennessee, we're getting brief glimpses of the upcoming Fall weather and it's almost blanket temperature at night. Good, good times.

Until next time,
x's and o's,
Eartha