"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Month: June 2017

Kitchen remodel: Drawer and cabinet pulls

Drawer and cabinet pulls for the Centralia kitchenThis post is not such an exciting one unless you are really into drawer and cabinet pulls, but later tonight we should have something on the shattered bottom oven of the double oven set. We will have to wait a week or so until a replacement door gets here. Everything is now installed except the stove hood. The back splash has to be all installed before that can go in. The black splash cannot really go in until the potfiller over the stove goes in, so I think we are a few days away from having everything. After that, they will paint. Hopefully, I will have one or two pictures of where we are later tonight.

Mark found the exact pulls Lorena wants and will be installing them soon. This picture is from the catalog.

Christian eats a lobster roll

Christian's first big Boston experience--the lobster rollChristian keeps very busy in Boston. Mostly it is work at the labs, but in his limited spare time so far, he went out and paid an exorbitant amount of money for a lobster roll. I told him it was a find investment and I would have been ashamed of him had he not done it. He lives within walking distance of a ton of museums, Fenway Park, Boston Pops, and a gazillion restaurants and coffee shops. I have to say though, I think a lobster roll is a great place to start, especially if you can wash it down with some Maine Blueberry Lemonade made with Wildflower Honey!

Unpacking the books

Lorena start building the library in CentraliaSince we actually believe (or desire, God willing) we will be in the house for years to come, Lorena has earnestly started to unpack the books and put them into what we hope to be at least part of our small, but memory filled library. We have what we have always felt like was lots and lots of books even though we have  thrown out quite a few. This is about 1/3 to 1/2 of our books so I guess we really did not have that many in the end.

A lot of our books are the stuff we kept from homeschool. We also have a lot of the kids’ work and all their test and other records filed away in a filing cabinet. I do not know if I am nuts to keep the stuff, but it was such a big part of our lives that it is kind of hard to throw the stuff away. We read a lot of these books aloud together. I guess we are hoping we will have friends’ kids who will enjoy them when they visit and maybe even grandkids someday.

All this stuff went up onto the second floor landing where there is room for some more book cases when we can afford them. We have a couch and two chairs and want to put a ton of lights in there, too. Right now, we have a closed balcony wall that looks down into the living room from the landing. We want to modify that so we have a glass barrier that so it will open the room up a bunch more. There is already plenty of light coming in from skylights in the living room and a could of high windows. It is a nice room. Honestly we are loving this house.

Kitchen remodel: Faucet selection

We are trying to figure out what faucets we want for the kitchen. We need three: 1) the main sink, 2) the vegetable sink, and 3) the pot-filler. Mark told us to just pick some we like, then we will go back and forth a little as the plumber will be supplying the faucets. They just need to know the style and finish we want for each. Here is what we found that we like. We will see how close we can come to this.

Faucet selection: vegetable sink Faucet selection: main sink Faucet selection: pot-filler

On another note, we are starting to look at outdoor kitchen options. We are thinking of going with this grill cooler for the side deck to get us started.

Grill/cooler for outside deck

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