New cabinets!

Once again into the breach (see if it works this time)

Sandy and I have been talking a long time regarding what to do with our kitchen.

Well, we finally took the plunge and purchased 3 cabinets from Ikea to start us down the road to the eventual destination of having a kitchen that we actually like.

The good bit is that Ikea has a kitchen planner right on their website--

The Plan

So we started the plan with the 3 cabinets

The Plan Starts

One of the points of our plan is that we had to hide that very obtrusive pipe coming up through the floor.

So we included one of Ikea's high cabinets and just kind of, well, hid it

Hiding the Pipe

The high cabinet is now a broom closet

Clean sweep!

Yeah, there's nothing like buying a 300+ dollar cabinet and then taking a skill saw to it to make it fit. One wrong slip of the blade...

Just in case you forgot, we now remind you what our kitchen looked like before

Old Kitchen

And what it looks like today--

New Kitchen

The plan is to add cabinets as time and energy permit. In this fashion, we won't make a complete disaster of the kitchen.

For now, however, we got a good start and really increased our storage space in the kitchen!

See all kitchen related goodness here--Kitchen Cabinets

As we add more to it, we'll get pics up here.