Home Improvements

Got home today to a much-improved home renovation situation. The kitchen is painted, and most of the dust is cleaned up. Notice the built-in lights under the cabinets.


We'll have a hood that actually vents to the outside, and a modern stove with no pilot lights to heat up the kitchen all summer, or blow out when a breeze blows through the screen door.


With the refrigerator now where the oven used to be (the oven is where the dishwasher used to be, and the dishwasher is where there were cabinets-- it's been like a big pea and shell game), we're trying to figure out what we want in the space. It may be a bar-like counter that we can have a meal, sit with a laptop or watch tv in the kitchen, or a small table. We'll run out to IKEA and see what we can find.


The best news was in the bathroom.


They grouted the floor, hung the new non-rusty medicine cabinet...


...but best of all...


...they connected the water for the bathroom sink...


...and the bathtub. It was great bathing in my own home for the first time in a week and a half. Good god, is it good to have running water in my home.

I won't have to spray the kids with the garden hose in the backyard to bathe them this weekend, like we planned...