The Daily Granite

At long last (well, to me anyway) I get to blog about my new kitchen! Pretty much for the last year Greg and I have been talking, saving, and planning to upgrade our kitchen countertops and backsplash. Finally this spring, after quite a bit of price comparison, we decided on a company and settled on all the details. Last weekend, it was made official! Below are pictures of the old kitchen, complete with a highly fashionable maroon stripe in the tile (I have no maroon in my whole house other than this).

Are you just wishing this beautiful display of culinary framework had been your kitchen?

We had to remove everything from the surfaces and the lower cupboards!

This island was the only part of the old kitchen I loved and will miss because my dad made it for us a year and a half ago. I love the slate top!

Remember when I said we had to remove everything? I never realized how much crap one can accumulate in 7 years of marriage when one has 42 cupboard doors behind which to hide things... Our poor office, however, will never forget.

Oh, the draping. And more draping. Futile efforts to discourage dust from settling anywhere but the kitchen floor. Futile I tell you. I still had to scrub the rest of the house, now I just had 8 sets of sheets to wash as well.

So was it worth it? Behold, the finished product:

Noah even helped us clean up afterwards. :)