Living in the 1950's...

It's 1959 and our house was built. MANY, MANY years go by and 2007 comes around.

A sweet, fun, & young couple (Todd & I - hehe!) come look at the house and end up loving almost everything about it... the hardwood floors, the amount of space there is, the size of our backyard, the huge 'milk truck' size garage, the carpet in the kitchen... ok that part was definitely one of the things we didn't like, along with the old appliances, the gross countertops, the LACK of counter space... that one is probably the worst! I hate cooking and I really think it's because of our kitchen. Ughhh... I dread dinner time because I end up cooking on the stove because there is no room for prepping any where else.

But not to depress anyone any longer, it's now 2010 and that lovely 1959 kitchen is getting ready to be tore up and tore out! HOLLER!

Check out our push button stove...



Love those great knobs... (not really!)



I'm so excited for this summer as we are getting ready to start our long awaited "Kitchen Remodel". We are still in the some what planning stages, but the design is done. Now is all the small details like what kind of countertops, what color, what color backsplash, what color tile, etc, etc... I feel like that's the hardest part. How can you pick out all that stuff without thinking that you can just put a coat of paint on it to change the whole look without costing a fortune to redo tile or whatever. It's so tough! I do have ideas and am getting lots of magazines and books to look through to help, but how exhausting it is to make decisions. Ha! I'm just excited for it to be done, even though Todd warned me it will probably be the end of summer before I see the end. But I'm coming to terms with that, knowing in the end I will have a brand new kitchen to cook in, host parties, holidays, or whatever else I'll use it for. Yay, yay, yay for lots of good things to come...