Kitschy Kitchen (At Last!)

We were off our deadline by exactly one year. I wanted the public rooms to be done by June 20, 2008. It wasn’t until June 20, 2009, that they were ready for their debut.

When we started, just before the demolition in Nov. 2007, the window corner of the kitchen looked like this:

One year ago, with the deadline days away, it looked like this:

Today it looks like this:

And when we started, the view from my dining room fireplace, facing the kitchen, looked like this:

And today it looks like this:

This:

and later, this:

became this:

And this:

became this:

And now I have a handy place for my cookbooks:

And even the tiniest cows have a safe home:

The kitchen’s been mostly done for a few months, but there were dozens of little details that kept it from being really done. Well now it’s really done.

Maybe at some point I'll go into some details, like about the drama with the cow mural - why I wanted it but then why I didn't, but for now there's just a slide show -