So, the cabinets went in:
And then they got doors:
And could you just die, seeing all that storage in one glorious space? Remember what we were dealing with originally? To me, that is the very definition of a world of change.
The crown atop the cabinets was the perfect touch. We don’t have that now, in Beigeland, and it looks, well, unfinished somehow.
I never knew I could care so much about kitchen cabinets. And, six years later, I’m still amazed by what a talented kitchen designer can do with simple stock cabinetry — and some forethought.
Don’t get me started on how inefficient our current kitchen is, even though it’s larger. (Oops, here I go anyway.) I feel like Beigeland is yet another of those poorly designed, quickly planned (and built) houses that in many ways doesn’t take into account how a family might actually live in said house.
I miss a lot of things about the old kitchen. One item on that long list is deep, wide drawers rather than lower cabinets. Lower cabinets (without any pull-out hardware) are a complete pain — especially once you’re used to the efficiency of drawers.
