Kitchen Walls

Last I left off with the kitchen; our contractor Daniel started putting up wall studs and setting up new electrical units. The kitchen previously has flourescent lighting which I highly dislike. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks flourescent lighting reminds them of cold boring corporate offices. Anyway, we decided we wanted to have 4 high hats installed with a dimmer.

Electrical finished up pretty fast and they were soon installing the sheet rock fast and steady.

Before I knew it, it was ready for painting.

You can see that we had floors installed too! Since the first floor was getting new laminate chocolate colored floors I wanted the kitchen to have a similar color. I was seeing lots of pictures of the ceramic tile that resembled wood like this picture and this picture. Thankfully we found a super affordable option at Lowes for $2.48 per square foot. This was about half the price of a similar looking tile I found at The Tile Shop.

We hired Lowe's to do the job too. I discovered that if I signed up on lowes.com I could receive a 10% off coupon for new homeowners. So we were also able to save there too!

So with the walls up and the floor installed we were getting closer to putting the kitchen together. Closer to finally eating our own cooked meals! At this point Tony and I were doing so much eating out that I was dyyyyyying to have my own stove to actually cook for ourselves. Now, I'm not one who yearns to cook everyday. I'd hire a chef if I could, but there's nothing better than being able to cook a nice home cooked meal. So this girl was aching and itching to get the kitchen done. One day at a time... one day at a time. =]