The Kitchen

This weekend's activity was research, research, research. We went to Ikea, Home Depot, a kitchen showroom and visited $2M+ open houses, trying to narrow down choices.

It worked. We picked out the cabinets from Ikea and proceeded to lay out the kitchen in its current configuration (see image below). Those clever Ikea folks even tally up the total cost of the cabinets in your design plan!

This layout is plan 1 (not necessarily the most desirable option, mind you). The existing floorplan is a bit limiting. The kitchen is a decent size and absolutely usable, but the adjacent laundry room has approximately 250 sq. ft. that is currently only serving as a large laundry room. The plan is to knock down the wall between the kitchen and laundry room to make a large kitchen/eating area!



Here's plan 2. This assumes knocking down the wall between the kitchen and laundry area, moving the fridge against the wall and adding an island.

So, to refresh our memories, we we went back to the little Sunnyvale house to take kitchen and bathroom measurements and more pictures. Oh my goodness, do we have our work cut out for us!

First of all, there is indeed no way we can just resurface the kitchen cabinets. They are gross. And the bathroom is atrocious! I felt uncomfortable using it!!

This is the condition of the main bathroom sink...with all its pink greatness...and matching pink cabinets and drawers...and backsplash...and corroded faucet and handles...

...and the kitchen...
This is something like what the cabinets are going to looks like:

This was a model home near Loral that is being "offered" (I love the nice terminology) at $800k. It's a townhome. But price and layout aside, it was nice to get a sense of what the cabinets would look like.