Counters, part 2

Here are the final installation pics:





We're both giddy. :)

It's more than the countertop, really. It's being able to prepare food in the kitchen, without running into the basement or up to the bathroom to fetch running water or to clean dishes; it's having a nice dinner together (like we used to do almost every night) at the dining room table, which is actually in the dining room and not covered in piles of stuff; it's knowing that we are now over the hump of the most demanding home improvement projects; and it's seeing a design that we thought up ourselves work really well with our lifestyle and the rest of the house. It's also knowing that although we've put a lot of money and time into this house, we'll get a good return on both when it comes time to sell.

It's been one month since the kitchen faucet was disabled, two months since the stove moved into the dining room and displaced the table into the living room, and 7 months since I began tearing up the kitchen floor. Now that things are back where they're supposed to be, we're wondering what to do with all the extra space! On the one-year anniversary of purchasing our home, it seems like we've just moved into a brand new place. It's pretty cool.