Country Livin’ Blog

Ok! The flooring store is behind us and the cabinetry lies ahead. Keeping in mind that my husband is in a cast, we set off to the cabinetry store on a sunny day, but there are clouds in the sky. Just about the time we arrive at the cabinetry store the bottom falls out and it is pouring down rain in buckets! I parked as close to the door as possible, but there is still no way to get inside without getting drenched. We sat in the car for awhile hoping it would stop raining, but it looked like it was going to be raining longer than we were willing to sit in the car. So I attempted to hold an umbrella over my husband as he crutched his way into the store.

One of the smart things we did was to take a sample of the tile we had chosen for the kitchen floor with us to look at cabinet stains. At least at the time I thought it was pretty smart. We put the tile up to several different stains and picked one that looked nice with our tile choice. The builder had allowed us $11,000 for cabinets. We spent $12,472. Not bad. We were ok with that figure. We got some really nice kitchen cabinets and then just took the standard cabinets for the bathrooms. What the heck? They would be in the bathrooms after all. I hate the bathroom cabinets! This is one of the things I would do differently if I were going to do it over. I would put nice cabinets in the bathrooms, too. It’s not that the cabinets in the bathrooms are bad; they just aren’t as nice as the rest of the house. I could live with the standard cabinets in the laundry room, but I really wish I had gone with some nicer cabinets in the bathrooms. I think about it every day. One day we will remodel and then the cabinets will be nicer. I’m just waiting for the day!

I’d like to tell you some features of the kitchen cabinets that I really like. Over the oven I chose to have a cabinet that has dividers for cookie sheets, cake pans, pie pans, cupcake pans, etc. This is an excellent cabinet! I have always struggled with the baking pan cabinet. You try to get out a cookie sheet and you have to take everything else out first because the cookie sheets are always on the bottom since they are flat! Well, they are easily accessible in the divided cabinet. They stand on their sides and there is one division just for cookie sheets! I really love it.

I really like the pots and pans cabinet, too! It’s under the cook top and it is has two drawers. The top drawer easily holds the cookware I use everyday. The bottom drawer is large enough to store the wok and other bigger pans I use only occasionally. Since I had new cabinets, I bought new cookware too! Just an added little bonus. J

Another feature I would do differently if I were doing it over is the cabinet with the trashcan in it. It is currently between the cook top and the kitchen sink. A convenient location, but I don’t like it. If I had designed the island correctly the island wouldn’t have a sink in it and it would have been turned so the cabinet side was facing the cook top. The trashcan would be in the island instead of where it is. Then I could have my dishtowels in the drawer next to the sink. I can’t have them there right now because the trashcan is under the drawer next to the sink! Do you see my problem? Who wants to use dishtowels that were in a drawer directly over the trashcan? Yuck! So the dishtowels are all the way on the other side of the kitchen away from the sink. Yes, I made a big mistake there. If only I had had the wisdom to see that one coming. I didn’t know the vegetable sink was going to be under utilized so there was no way I could have guessed the cabinet under the island would have been a better place for the trashcan. If only I had known then what I know now!

On the whole I really like my kitchen cabinets. If I had it to do over I would change a few things, but for the most part the cabinets are really nice and I love the look of my kitchen.

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