I just realized today that my two year anniversary of becoming a homeowner was exactly two weeks ago. When I moved in, I never would've thought I'd still be making repairs and improvements to the same room two years later. Yes, again with the kitchen. I just couldn't leave well enough alone.
While browsing the aisles of Ikea yesterday I decided to purchase wall cabinets. For those of you who have never seen the inside of my home, I removed the nasty cabinets which were here originally and replaced them with an open shelving system. That worked well until I started collecting more dishes, mugs, pots and pans, and serving utensils. Plus, with my boyfriend and I talking about his moving in at some point, space will become even more of an issue soon. So, after getting back to mine, we started assembling the cabinets and moved the current shelves to an adjacent wall above the sink. Unfortunately, all of these changes mean more patching and painting of the walls - and another trip to Home Depot - in addition to everything we did in September. We also decided that the kitchen would look better with another shelf to match the one currently in place, so we're heading back to Ikea for that, too. We'd have to go anyway to return a replacement part we were mistakenly sold for another item and get the right one. Hopefully, these latest purchases will mark the end to the major renovations to the kitchen. We still have details from the September improvements to finish, but those aren't so bad. I'm just looking forward to being able to rest for the winter and think ahead to improvements somewhere else in the spring.
Below are photos from before I moved in, the 2005 anniversary, and this morning. Looking through my home improvement photos, the sink area of the kitchen seems to be the bellweather for how my home is shaping up from year to year, so it made sense to continue the theme. Click on each one for a larger image.
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