It’s so pretty!! Is it as huge as it looks or is it the angle of the picture?
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Thank you! It is huge! I think it’s 26" across. They did reinforce the ceiling to accommodate the weight of the glass.
The dining room chandelier (in the background, no glass panels on it currently) is really similar in shape - I was hoping they would compliment each other.
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@AIMR - You said you wanted blue cabinets… FYI, my cabinet color is almost identical to ‘Naval’ by Sherwin-Williams (they painted the fridge alcove to match the cabinets).
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Beautiful!!!
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Thank you, @MistressJennie!
Went to put new bulbs in the dining room chandelier, and one of the sockets is busted. I guess we’re replacing that light fixture, after all. There’s a smaller, coordinating chandelier to the kitchen’s that’s available. Bummer. I convinced DH to splurge a little on the kitchen light because it was the only big one I could find that I liked and we were saving some money by keeping the old light in the dining room. Man plans, God laughs.
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@tendstowardschaos love your kitchen light. We eliminated ours and put in four wafer lights. They are dimable and we love them. The old center boob light was weak, ugly and we never used it.
It’s been a busy week. Guests are coming next week and the house was so cluttered and dusty. Tools and bits of wood and parts of kitchen cabinet contents everywhere. I started on our porch, or should I say staging area, and it was a mess. All clean now.
Next was restocking the kitchen, adding doors, drilling new holes for shelf placement. My DW is shorter than me and could not reach the top shelves and it was a stretch for me, but there were no pre drilled holes. Lots at the top, lots at the bottom, but the center was blank and it was the same onthe new and the 20 year old cabinets. My DW is a whiz with a drill and saved the day. We were also able to add another shelf in the narow cabinets.
I added handles today and we just need the new cabinet doors and counters to come in…and a bit of finish trim.
Then the dining room. We had most the tools from the basement and half the kitchen stuffed in there, and it is not big. I love the current layout, still some clean up and styling to do, but it feels fresh.
Tomorrow is bathrooms and living room cleaning. Easy. And I need to try to clear some space in the craft room, it is neglected and a dumping ground. I need to sew or craft or something and I have no surfaces left.
Take a look.
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So close to finished! It looks great. I really like your colors - the space is very warm and bright.
I almost went that direction with our kitchen lighting, too. We have them throughout the basement, and I like them.
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It is great to see the kitchen projects nearing completion! That is a tough room to go without…it is so true…the heart of the home is the kitchen. I love all the changes…especially since they seem to fit your personal style and needs!
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We have had a working kitchen for most of the time. The section without doors was original, and that included the stove, sink and dishwasher. The fridge moved around until it found it’s final resting place, though it was hard to cook with the fridge resting in front of the stove at times.
I have refinished the existing with mixed results on the new stain, but since there will be new doors, I think it will blend in.
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Test fitting the shelves on the smaller unit, eep!! We originally thought 1/4” plywood would be strong enough for the shelves but once a few were in and tested we had to go up to 1/2” plywood for the bottom shelves. The top shelves are mainly meant to store loose paper and other light things so they don’t have to be as sturdy.
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Yesterday, we had a guy over for a quote to repair the paving in our backyard that got damaged during the renovation. It wasn’t a priority at first, but over winter we’ve started to get annoyed by it, it’s uneven and gets muddy. It’s no fun walking there after dark, so we’d like to have this fixed before the next winter. We’ve tried temporary fixes and they sort of worked, but we’re clearly not professionals.
Well, all my builder irritation came back even before he arrived 
He arrived much later than the time we agreed upon and didn’t even mention it. Then, when I was trying to explain what we wanted it was a lot of “oh you’ll want this and that” (no we don’t, that’s what I was trying to say) and not a lot of listening. I’ll get the quote in a week, but I’ve already got my doubts.
He seems experienced with what we’re asking him to do (he showed pictures of previous work) but his communication skills are clearly lacking - I’m wondering if that’s a red flag or this is just what builders are like? Of course, it would depend on the price as well, right now we don’t have the funds to have a lot of work done. We’re just going to have the path fixed and then I hope to feel well enough to create flower beds on either side by myself. We’re going to get rid of the lawn entirely. Our lawn is now a big pool of mud, but Mr. Imma wanted to have one, but he absolutely hates mowing and was always complaning about it. So we decided our household would be more peaceful without a lawn
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Nice! Look at those custom cuts on that 1/2" plywood!
@Immaculata Ugh. Contractors can have a special kind of mansplaining. It’s not only/always gendered, but it often is especially gendered.
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I finally got to get back to work on my bookshelves after a few weeks of supply snafus, a 10-day trip, waiting for supplies, and procrastinating a step that I was nervous about. Today I started this step! And it wasn’t that hard! 
I ran out of shims, so have one more space between two cases to do as well as the ends which will be wood blocks instead of shims.
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My poor builder was having the worst day yesterday, and it just got worse. He drilled fifteen doors/drawers wrong - that’s more than a third of them. Now, we can’t get replacements because that color is discontinued. But, since you can’t tell from the pictures…
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Ooooohhh nooo! 15??? And the colour discontinued? Good luck for him trying to fix this.
The kitchen looks beautiful in the pictures. Are any of these doors / drawers damaged, too?
Yeah. Six were drilled for the wrong sized handles and nine were drilled off-center. All those drawers with the big handles are off-center, and some of the doors have extra holes. They’re going to try and fill the holes and match the paint. I’ve been waiting almost fifteen years for this remodel - I am very disappointed.
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Wow, that’s a lot of messing things up in one dag 
I can understand how you could possibly make that mistake one time (although it would still be sloppy work for a professional) but doing 15 of them wrong, there are no words for that. Have they not heard of measure twice and cut once?? I hope they manage to fix this so that the damage is not visible anymore, or find a solution, even if it means contacting every vendor in the country to see if they still have any stock left.
I like my builder - he is a friend and this was just a mistake. It just sucks. He feels terrible. I feel terrible. The cabinets are all custom. There’s no ‘stock’ anywhere.
I had put all the handles in the cabinets/drawers they belong to. He just assumed that one set of cabinets had the same sized handles as the one next to it, but they were different. There are literally five different sizes of pulls. And, the jig he was using for the big drawers was new and had extensions that were directional, but not obviously so. So, that’s how they got marked off-center by about half an inch.
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The is heartbreaking! I wonder if the cabinet shop can at least give him the recipe for the paint color. As a former painter, I want to recommend that whatever paint they can get, that they repaint the whole front (prime, too) and not just touch up. A very close blue will look a lot more like that exact blue if it’s the whole surface. I feel bad for you both.
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