It's been awhile but we are still moving forward...

I thought I would post some new pictures of the Kitchen and the dinning room/school room. Also the living room with all the painting we have gotten done. It has been quite the undertaking.

So let's start with the kitchen.
The first thing I did was take pictures of the bare WHITE walls. Yup, I have never lived in anything but white. Okay, wait! I did have a VERY bright yellow room growing up and man of my dreams and I, well we did paint our bedroom a year and a half ago. But I have never had any color on my living room, dinning room or kitchen walls. Choosing what these colors would be was not so easy. It was a long hard decision.
Our first picture is of the Kitchen with it's white walls and cupboard door fronts.
The counters were unorganized and messy.

It was hard to have much of a vision for this room as there was so much STUFF that didn't fit and we hardly ever saw the counter tops. Sad but true.

We tore all the laminate paper off of the cupboards and drawer fronts due to the stuff we had didn't have very good glue compound and the paper was already peeling off.

One very happy aloe vera plant that LOVES being root bound and not watered! Much anyways. This aloe will get thinned out so that we can actually open the window! I will end up giving away a couple of pots of aloe to others. LOVE having this plant in the house...just wish it would grow in a different window...sigh. It does love it here.
Oh, you will also notice the counters are visible in the last two pictures. My Emerald Eye helper assisted me in "editing" (as she puts it) the kitchen. We went through EVERYTHING in the cupboards and under the sink and drawers and everywhere in the kitchen and decided to only keep in the them what is used on a consistent basis. This items that I cannot get ride of as I use them, just not often enough, went to the garage. The rest of the kitchen items that just haven't been used in the last couple of years (or, realistically more like in the last 8 or 9 years) went bye-bye! With that we have more counter space and room and it is much easier to keep them clean and clear more often. Don't get me wrong, we still have our moments of not being able to see them due to busy schedule or craft projects....or painting projects, but they don't stay that way too long.

More will be posted on the Kitchen transformation in the next day or two as I have time....now that all the pictures are on my computer.