The beauty of a good kitchen
Cedar June 10th, 2007
I’ve finally taken some photos of our new kitchen to share with you. Sorry it’s taken me so long!
The last 5 pictures on the Kitchen Progress page (you’ll have to scroll down) show the finished kitchen:
I wish I had taken “before” pictures of what our old kitchen looked like, so you could see what a drastic improvement this is…but alas, I didn’t start recording this project till after we had done all the demolition.
I did find one picture while looking through my photo archives. It’s a picture of me on Halloween a few years back (check it out, I’m dressed as a Bic ballpoint pen!) and you can kind of see the old kitchen in the background…a busy patterned brown and yellow linoleum floor, small tiles on the walls (note, in yet a different, non-matching shade of brown), dark brown appliances (you can see a piece of the stove on the right), a marble-looking countertop, which had yellow and…seriously, pink blotches in it, which you can’t really see in this photo, and very dark cabinets. Also, the lighting was a huge square fixture on the ceiling with fluorescent tubes in it…it was a very dingy atmosphere. And inside some of the cabinets and in the pantry, you could see the walls that were still painted Pepto-Bismol-pink by a former occupant with extremely bad taste.
Even worse than these aesthetic horrors, the old kitchen was terribly inefficient. The old pantry had a wall in front of it with a very narrow doorway in it, so that the shelves were very inaccessible. There was tons of wasted space, unusable corners, etc. The new design is open and spacious while still giving us almost twice the storage space as before and more than twice the usable counter space.
In the short time we’ve had our kitchen finished, we have gotten so much enjoyment out of it. It’s now a bright, sunny room with a place for everything and everything in its place. I love the new counters…an elegant, deep blue, our new modern light fixtures with aim-able spotlights, and I love how the tiling pulls everything together.
Of course, 15 years from now, a young couple will move into our house and disdainfully rip everything out of the kitchen and start over, ranting about the previous generation’s horrifically tasteless design choices.
In art-related news, I have another solo show coming up! I will be displaying paintings, some old, some new, at the Mayorga Coffee Factory in Silver Spring, MD for the entire month of July. If you are in the DC/Baltimore area, I’d love to see you at the opening. More details to come.
