New House Update!

Slowly, but surely we are getting settled into our new home! Here is a tour of the first 3 rooms that we are done unpacking for the most part:

KITCHEN

As most of you could guess, I moved into the Kitchen first. I feel like the whole house is in disarray if the kitchen isn't in a working order. I guess you can see where my priorities lie. Once you don't have to order pizza, or Chinese and eat it out of a box, I feel like things just go WAY more smoothly.

There is TONS of space in this mystical kitchen of cabinets. Like I have a couple extra cabinets that I will use in place of a pantry. While I do have a HUGE closet which is going to be used at a dried goods pantry, there isn't really a place immediately obvious to be used as a pantry. So I just decided that a certain portion of my kitchen cabinets would act as just that (hence the 2 nearly empty cabinets in the pictures below).

Here are some pictures of how everything has "shaken out" as I call it.

Washing Machine! Huzaah!

This corner is the glasses, Tupperware, Dutch Oven (THANKS JANET), and the Kitchenaid Stand Mixer and Food Processor will live here as well as there is an outlet and plenty of counter space for them.

Mickey may not stay here, but he is dreaming of what the house will be like when I am done unpacking!

This is the best picture of it, but do you like my Soap pedestal? Cuz I love it. It is the cut glass cake stand that belonged to my Grandma Jones. I really like the look of it holding the hand soap, dish towel and soap. I am my mother's daughter with all the tchotchkes on the window sill above the sink.

The lower cabinet shelves spin!!

Look at the sexiness of the lower cabinet....Lazy Susan Shelves for my pans and baking equipment.
Above is a 3 shelf (huge!) corner cabinet. I just need a Lazy Susan in here for easy access to the different Tea types on the first level. Someone in Cali, please send more Winter Dream Tea for Pigeon (Husband). We don't have enough to last the late Autumn/Winter. Though we do have a great selection of hot cocoas right now. This counter corner will house the espresso machine (Thank you Chaglas!), the coffee maker, and grinder. Coffee Corner! You will also notice my Grandmother's Two Tier Dessert tray. I decided that I didn't want it to be hidden away in storage, so for now, it is housing a bowl holding my garlic and my butter crock. More things will end up living on there I bet, but for now, that is all I got.







Pretty, new GAS RANGE stove.

So much space still available here if I organize this area better. The stove, oven, and microwave are just the prettiest with the annoying to clean stainless steel, but they work very well and they came with the house so I am happy with it.

Pull out drawers?!?! AWESOME!

All the foods shall live in here! Well, not all of it, but a lot. There are 8 shelves of space for food stuffs and spices! Below I have my casserole dishes and baking pans on one side. Then there are the pull out drawer shelves...they are so good looking. the bottom shelf currently houses my Food Saver (THANKS AUNT EILEEN), which is one of the greatest inventions ever, and the toaster (which we finally found in the dryer....). The top shelf has the blender, the immersion blender, and the waffle iron. So easy to get to and, Yes, I do use all these things. I know Minimalist kitchen-ers would roll their eyes at all my tools, but I do in fact use them.


So that is my kitchen for all intends and purposes for now. I will be pickup a marble top kitchen separator from Poppa and Care Bear's house this weekend to finish off the space. Then on Tuesday of next week, my 2 interior designer friends from work on coming buy to give me some ideas and suggestions! I can't even express my excitement about this!!


Until next time...cook it up and organize on!