I Should Write a Blog

I've been posting to Facebook with some frequency the past few weeks, my latest post drew a casual comment about "thanks for the blog" and then my daughter chimed in with a "you should write a blog."

This is my first attempt, playing with the google blogger tools to see what I see. This is very much a work in progress, well really more of an experiment, to see what I shall see.
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2014

New House - Kitchen, First Impressions

We just moved into our new house in Leesburg.  It has plenty of issues and I mean plenty.  The number of things needing attention are just overwhelming.  Perhaps the most important to us is the Kitchen, which we knew going in was a write off and rebuild proposition and nothing we have experienced so far has changed this impression.

Overall

The kitchen is dominated by black and white with some stainless thrown in all built on the omnipresent cherry hardwood floor which covers most horizontal surfaces in the house. It's also a mess, but that's a transient problem and a lot better than a day ago.

The cabinets are white, I would assume they’d be sleek, modern looking, but the doors are edged with a fancy curve and crowned with a compound arch, touches I would expect on a traditional wooden cabinet.  The doors have a cheap plastic feel and sound accordingly when closed. 

The countertop appears to be a high quality marble, nicely finished.  It’s black with some flecks of color, giving it a harsh contrast to the cabinets.

Appliance are mostly stainless steel following the current trend.  The exception is the built in oven, which is white.  I’d guess the oven is older, perhaps the only original component of the kitchen.

My overall impression on the kitchen is simply, yuck.