Excluding some minor details, our kitchen renovation is complete and I thought that I would share with you some pictures. I wish that I had taken some before pictures, but oh well I didn't. Therefore, I will provide a quick description of what was there prior and how the kitchen has changed; and how we make our small kitchen work for our growing, large family.
We got new kitchen cupboards, counter tops, back splash and a new kitchen sink! I am so excited about the new kitchen sink; mainly because I had been using for the last several years a one basin sink, which made washing dishes and doing such things as straining spaghetti while having other dirty cooking utensils and dishes in the way, quite difficult if you can imagine. However, having a two basin sink makes life easier for me! Also, having a taller faucet makes it so much easier to fill water pitchers and such too!
We also got a new microwave! But this microwave is so much better than our original one and it is in a much better location than the prior one! Our old microwave used to sit to the left of the stove on the counter top, leaving very little room, if any room at all, to prep for cooking or to dish out plates of food. I would have to pick up each dish (five total before Mac arrives) and carry each plate to the stove, fill the plate with food while holding the plate with my free hand because there was simply no room to set it down. I would do this five times in a row to get dinner on the table. Now I can lay out all five plates on the counter top just by the stove to plate the food! Oh how splendid! (Oh and yes, there is a plate full of steak marinading on the stove top when I took this picture today!)
Excluding the new window treatments, there is nothing really new in this picture but I wanted to show this part of the kitchen anyways. I keep my Tupperware and the like in the bottom of my little kitchen cart we like to use as a kitchen island. Above the cart hangs my pots. I found this pot hanger at Lowe's on clearance a few years ago. Hanging my pots and pans have provided me more storage space for other items since storage space is limited. I think this was a great addition to our small kitchen and it has really freed up space for other items and storage. I also, use the rack to hang up the kids' lunch boxes to dry out each day after school, which again is very helpful.
My kitchen is small but I have to say just doing these small simple things have really helped me gain quite a bit of functional space now, which is very helpful for a table of six!
