So it has been a really long time since I’ve written anything on here (10+ months). We’ve gone from buying a house, to doing our first renovation.

This is the first time that we’ve ever owned a house. It definitely has a lot of perks and a lot of negatives. My favorite parts of the house is that it’s ours. If we want to change something, we can. We didn’t like the kitchen, so voila, we’re getting a new kitchen. My least favorite part is dealing with the yard. I’m just not that great at planting flowers and remembering to cut the lawn. Guess that will come with time.

So when we purchased the house there was one proviso, we had to redo some of the kitchen. We were going to use the Home Owner credit to pay for most of the renovations, but due to some unforeseen complications the process took a lot longer than we expected. We applied at the end of October and I just deposited the check over the weekend.

The video that is below shows our kitchen. It’s not awful, and could have been a lot worse. The problem is that there isn’t really any counter space. We have about two feet on either side of the sink. We currently don’t have a microwave because there isn’t space for one (the previous owners kept the microwave in one of the cabinets) and our toaster oven is on some crates in the dining room.

So the main goal was to create counter space, yet still maintain the look of the kitchen. We were also limited in the fact that we couldn’t redo the area around the sink. This was mainly due to the white tiling on the wall. The tiling doesn’t go behind the cabinets. So if we took those out, it would look awkward. So it was either remove all of the tiles or leave the sink area alone. Since we did have a budget, we chose the cheaper option.

So here is the video of the kitchen as it looked before we started renovation.

I wish I could post the after video, but alas construction has taken longer than the contractor expected. He said one week, I thought two weeks. Now, we’re on week 3 (although he was busy last week, so no work was done).

Here are a few pictures of what is done so far.

So hopefully I’ll have some more pictures to show by the end of the week.