The Kitchen Kamikazi

Our kitchen is, to put it kindly, a nightmare because the former owners were dimwitted, tasteless, and design-challenged. 

Which is one of the reasons our house payment is so much lower than yours (a thought that sustains us as we trudge ever-onward in our remodeling journey). 

Over the last few years we've:

• ripped out the nasty carpeting; 
• replaced the dishwasher, stove, and garbage disposal; 
• installed one of those spray attachment-thingies at the sink; and 
• removed a truly disgusting range hood.

(If you're wondering why this is all we've done in the kitchen, the answer is simple: the rest of the house is just as awful and has required miles of woodwork, carpeting, painting, etc.) 

However, I've decided that I absolutely cannot - NOT FOR ONE MORE STINKIN' MINUTE! - deal with our kitchen as it currently is. 

So check out the BEST piece of real estate in the room, the Park Place of our kitchen:

If the funky wall and ceiling coverings (a type of pressed sheeting that's a cross between pegboard - sans holes - and malamine) aren't enough to turn your stomach, check out that hip, UNCOVERED fluorescent light and the cheap, oddly-cut, and protruding counter. Feeling nauseated yet? Did you notice the cabinets and drawers have no hardware? How 'bout that gaping void between the cabinet and the ceiling? 

So here I am, just sick, SICK of the kitchen, (sick, I tell you!) and determined to do something about it, even though there are no funds for this enterprise. I am digging deep down within myself - tapping into every last drop of creativity and imaginative problem-solving with which the good Lord has blessed me - to come up with an Answer. A Solution. Something. Anything.  

More tomorrow....

Comments

[Dawn T]

can't wait to see what you come up with Deborah. I can feel your pain. I'm sure that it will look amazing in the end.

[judyjung]

I think the lower cabinet would look great without the "sticking out" counter top. And remove the upper cabinet (emptying it first) and replace with white shelving! there, problem solved. Seriously, I salute you for being pragmatic enough to see the potential in the house you purchased and being willing to do it as your finances permit! Hugs!!

[Linda C. Baker]

I have faith you can make it fab!

[Deborah]

We dream of all these things! (Wait until you see more of our lighting issues.) But some day they'll come to pass - we're just looking to camouflage what we can until that day arrives.

[Anne B.]

Oh I feel your pain!! We have remodeled 80% of our kitchen (funky drop ceiling with fluorescent lights)over the years- replacing all of the appliances- tore off the ugliest wall paper ever.....and more. I am amazed at that wallcovering and ceiling material- yikes! I wish you luck on getting it all torn out and replaced. Maybe you can add some canned recessed lights on the ceiling strategically placed over the stove-sink etc..that's what we did and I love it.