Day Seven-hundred: a milestone

Well we never thought we'd see day #700 when we began this odyssey nearly two years ago. Then again, we had plenty of doubts that we'd ever see the day when the kitchen was (for all intents and purposes) done. Barring a tip-out drawer in front of the sink we are done because we installed the last doors today.

When we think back about what we had to start with we realize just how far we've come. It was all faux-maple over top of the original 60-year-old cabinets...

ceramic tile laid on top of the original vinyl floor...

black appliances...

separate (gas) range and built-in oven...

and a little breakfast table.

After many permutations and false starts--installing maple floor, several different layouts, numerous colors of stain and then paint on the cabinets, a few colors of paint on the walls--we had what to many seemed like a perfectly fine kitchen.

But fools that we are we thought differently and are very pleased with the result.