kitchen miracle

 I am now up to the fall of 2005. At this time, El and I decided that we couldn't take the kitchen one second longer. We had thought we could wait but it was not happening. The irony is that in order to do the kitchen and add on to the family room and add a screened porch, we had to get a second mortgage. So now, instead of saving money, we were paying the same exact amount for our mortage as we had in the other house.

Removing the old

Adding the new!

When I started getting bids, it turned out the kitchen would cost as much as our whole budget. What were we going to do? The layout didn't work and this wasn't a luxury. And then something wonderful happened. Really. The kitchen guy called a week after he gave us his enormous estimate and said a friend of his had bought a house in Buckhead and was gutting it. He had measured their kitchen and it would fit PERFECTLY in our space, and he could disassemble it and reinstall in our house. Along with the almost new stainless steel appliances and the granite countertops. It truly was a miracle.

He did some custom work and added a range mantle, a refrigerator cabinet and a book bag cabinet. Coincidence? I think not. To us it was a miracle like water into wine. Not only could we get a beautiful kitchen, we could add a room to the back of the house

new room off back of house

so there would be a place to eat with windows to the view. And we could do a screened porch off of our bedroom. Doing all of that was what I call good stress. I turned out beautifully.

Done with the kitchen

Finding pictures is taking longer than I expected. I'm still looking, but I should find some today.