Anne & Will

Thinning

Anne — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Gardening season came early to Boulder. With very little snow and record breaking high temperatures my little spring plants hardly know what to do with themselves. With all this growth comes my least favorite part of gardening - thinning.

Texting With Mike

Anne — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

While visiting Mike in New Orleans he stepped out of his apartment to take a call. A very long call. Which left me and Will some time to make mischief.

Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler

Anne — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Based on recent posts you’d think that we do nothing but think, dream and plan our kitchen renovation. However we did manage something completely non-kitchen related. We took a long weekend to visit my brother, Mike, in New Orleans. In fact, the only kitchen related thing we did there was to pop into an antiques shop in the French Quarter that specialized in European kitchen antiques.

Highlights from the trip:

Appliances, check!

Will — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:43:19 -0400

While researching appliances for the kitchen, I looked at dozens of websites, and hundreds, if not thousands, of options. Typically "the internet" is my favorite store but while there were deals to be found on some of the items on our appliance wish list, in the end we ended up buying all of our appliances locally (with tax) and from one place. It just made things simpler, and gave us a bit more peace of mind.

Moving Right Along

Will — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:16:31 -0400

We just gave final approval on our cabinetry, and it now goes into production (should be built by June 27th, and at our doorstep the week of July 9th).

We begin demo on the existing kitchen on June 22nd, which is only barely over two months from now. This project is starting to feel real, and rapidly approaching.

The Big Chill(er)

Will — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

There are a lot of different kinds of refrigerators out there. There are the obvious differences like color, size, door configuration. And then there are the not so obvious or common differences like counter-depth, built-in, and integrated models. So begins our tale.

Viola Park

Will — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:34:04 -0400

Last year, Colorado finally got an IKEA. The clouds parted, the angels sang, and cheap Scandinavian furniture was only an hour away now. We've only been once, but it was a pretty big deal locally.

Part of what seems to get people so excited about IKEA, besides the meatballs, are the inexpensive, modular kitchen solutions. You can put together a pretty great kitchen with cabinetry from IKEA. My parents did it for an old farmhouse they remodeled in Washington and it turned out really nice. But Anne and I were worried that with a new IKEA on the scene, there would be a glut of IKEA kitchens in the next few years, and we really wanted our remodel to stand out from the crowd. So we chose to go in a different direction.

Kitchen Resources

Will — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:56:46 -0400

The way our projects typically work is I sweat the design and details, Anne keeps an eye on the bigger picture and makes sure all of my detail-sweating doesn't result in budget creeping, and in the end it works out beautifully.

I'd be afraid to tally up exactly how much time I've spent researching every aspect of this project; I have no doubt it would be literally hundreds of hours. These are a few of the sources of information and inspiration that were most helpful to me, in no particular order:

The Kitchen

Will — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:17:26 -0500

The first thing I did after getting home from touring this house before we bought it was to pull out some graph paper and start sketching up a new kitchen. The possibilities that a new kitchen presented, and the radical transformation that would mean for the house were what really got me initially excited about buying this place. It took almost three years but we're finally getting around to undertaking that project.

Anne & Will

Thinning

Texting With Mike

Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler

Appliances, check!

Moving Right Along

The Big Chill(er)

Viola Park

Kitchen Resources

The Kitchen

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