face lift

I just wanted to share some pictures of our finished kitchen! The counter tops were installed Thursday, the backsplash was done Friday, and plumbing yesterday. I wish I could say it went off without a hitch, but we had a few minor inconveniences. At least we were out of town all weekend so it wasn't that big of a deal to be without a kitchen sink. We ended up having to get a new garbage disposal. Phil hooked that up yesterday afternoon and Viola! All done!

I guess it's kind of hard to see, but here is one view. I love the ceramic tile back splash!
I love how the tile looks under the bar!
Here is a picture of our new sink/faucet. The left side is slightly deeper/longer than the right. I really like it. (can you tell, haha?) It doesn't take much to get me excited!They apparently didn't order enough tile so they tried to just do a line of plain tiles. Which I would have settled for just to get the job done. But they ran out, have to order more, and we're going to have them rip out this strip above the desk and make it look like the strip b/w the bar and sink. Who knows when this will happen:)

If I were to build another house I'm 90% sure I wouldn't choose white cabinets. Maybe at the beach house. And that would be like a distressed ivory or something cool, haha!

I like to say that we built this house when we were young and stupid:) The biggest thing we did right was to go back and add our basement before they officially started! We signed our contract to build our house October 30, 2000. About 3 weeks after our wedding, haha. We finally closed Nov. 29, 2001. It took for freakin' ever. So anyway, it was not the greatest quality build. We have debated moving, but there are too many things we like about our house. Specifically the basement, the large bedrooms.

Things we don't like are our small yard, our small shower!, and the small living room. But anyway, now that Sydney's in school we don't want to up and move b/c the way student assignment is around here we could get moved anyway. Not by choice. So why change our school by choice. We're happy there right now. So we decided to gradually make some improvements. And if we sell 5 or 10 years from now then we will have things that will increase the value of our house and we'll get to enjoy them!

Oh, and then there's the fact that we love our location and our house will be paid off in less than 9 years.

Our next project is more than likely going to be taking the floor up from our bathroom and putting down ceramic tile as well as taking out the white tile around our garden tub and putting in matching ceramic tile. We might do ceramic tile in our little 1/2 bath. You have no idea how tiny that room actually is unless you've seen it, haha. You can almost pee and brush your teeth at the same time:) And we'd love to put hardwood floors in our whole downstairs. We thought that might be sooner rather than later, but now I think later's winning!

Tomorrow is our 9 year anniversary!