Kitchen ReDo FINALLY

BEFORE

So the kitchen redo is almost complete. We just have the desk area, also known as the junk pile area, to resurface with the counter top. Jeff finally finished the trim work and now I just have to put another coat of paint on it and a quick rub with stain and voila it will be all done. I think it looks FABULOUS!  What a difference paint can make. I also love love love my new brown sink. It is so much deeper and it just looks wonderful. I will take you through the picture photos to see what we did.

AFTER

                                        

What a difference it makes when we lightened up the cabinet color

The whole room is so much lighter now. We put the bead board around 

the base of the island cabinet and I love the look of it.

Didn't you love the pink counter tops. I'm sorry mom I know when you 

picked it out you loved it but it just had it's time.

I love the counter tops now, and mom helped me pick them out!

I was leaning towards a lighter travertine looking laminate but I am happy that

I listened to her and went with the darker granite look. 

Don't ya just love open shelving?

                                        

Much better when the mess is hidden behind the doors. Notice that we painted

the microwave shelf brown to match the pantry cupboard.(well you'll see that in a minute.)

                                        

We got rid of the wallpaper that was still behind the stove and put 

up bead board. I was going to pain the cabinets here the dark brown to match the pantry.

When I took the drawer fronts and doors out to sand and paint I forgot about that and all the

drawer fronts got painted Cream even though I had already painted the cabinet frame brown.

Let me just say I was glad for the mistake because I really love it better now that it is all cream.

                                          

Nice light and BRIGHT!

                                                    

Big change to this area. We painted the pantry cupboard chocolate brown and

 added Moulding to the top to make it look like a piece of furniture. Yeh, I know I have 

a huge mess in the desk area.

                                            

I really like the way it turned out, especially the moulding around 

the top. 

                                    

I LOVE MY NEW SINK!

Nice and Deep and Brown

Now it couldn't have happened without a whole lot of help and encouragement.

                                       

Jody showed up at my house on May April 9th (was it that long ago)

 with Strep throat and her electric drill

to start taking off all my doors. Look she's even smiling through the pain. 

She said"Come on SISTER let's get this show on the road."

                                      

We even got Brandon helping by sanding .

                                      

Maddi and Kaitlin were awsome painters and fit in all the tight places.

                                     

And we couldn't have done it without the help of the plumbing unit, Jeff and Grandpa.

That ended up being more than we thought it would be and I was

without a kitchen sink for too many days than i care to remember.

                                         

It might have been a little much for some of us at times, but we all survived,

and it all turned out awsome.

Better Late than Never

Here are our Easter Pictures in a Smilebox Photo Album. Happy Spring!

This free digital scrapbook created with Smilebox

A Little Sneak Peek

Here is a tiny sneak peak of the before and after of the kitchen cabinets. I'm not going to Show the whole before and after yet because I still need to get the last bit of counter top on and the new sink in. This week it will hope fully be all done.
                         BEFORE

AFTER

This does not do justice to how awsome it has all turned out. I look at my kitchen now and just sigh with pleasure or scream and jump up and down like a lunatic depending on how the mood stirikes me. Then of course I have to listen to my boys commenting on how weird their mother is, but I don't care I love love love my kitchen now.

Before and After

            The day has finally arrived and Brandon has a hair cut. No more Hobo or Sister Tanner....we hope.
                                                                      BEFORE

AFTER

Just a side note:  Both missionary brothers begged him not to cut his hair.

Returned with Honor

After 2 years of faithful service in New York #1 son has returned home. We were all worried because of course mother nature stepped in to mess up the day with another winter storm. Flights had been cancelled into Calgary and Lethbridge so we were watching the internet flight udates constantly as we prepared to pick him up. We were blessed and his flight made it into Calgary and the Lethbridge flight was on schedule. We were going to see him at 7:50pm. As we pulled into the airport parking lot at 7:20my cell phone rang and Dustin informed us he had been bumped from his flight. He had already been seated on the plane but the people they were trying to get off would not leave and he heard over the radio that they should ask Mr. Tanner. So being the kind and so very tired person he was he got off and we didn't get to pick him up until Midnight. Crazy. What's funny is that was the original flight he had been scheduled on but we had changed it so he wouldn't be stuck in the airport for 7 hours. He finally arrived as did two other returning missionaries so it was a big celebration in the tiny Lethbridge airport. We are so happy to have him home. Now we'll watch him settle into life once again.