our new kitchen!

When we moved into our new house, there was just one thing I wished I could change about it--the kitchen...and more specifically the fact that it didn't have a dishwasher (to wash/disinfect all the bottles and sippy cups that come along with having 4 little ones around here!). I told Mark from the beginning that I loved the house but if we bought it, I wanted a dishwasher ASAP. So a month or so ago, we agreed to make a few minor adjustments to the kitchen to make room for the dishwasher and utilize the space a bit better. The kitchen is quite small so it is important to make the most of all of it's space.

My mom's friend's husband does home repair/improvements on his own so we asked him to come over and look at it with us. He agreed to make the changes we wanted for a really reasonable price...so we asked him to start as soon as he could...which was this past Monday.

He was able to tear out the old counter, sink and peninsula cupboard thing and replace it with a couple new cupboards, new counter, sink, faucet and install a few new tiles all in one week!

Before:

Day 1: Getting out the old...counter, sink, faucet, and cupboard.
Day 2: adding new boards for the new counter to sit on & installing new cupboards. I was home with all four kids that day--Isaiah and Jayda had a good time checking out what the "worker" had done while he was gone on his lunch break.
Day 3: fixing the tile floor.
No pictures...I forgot that day...oops!

Day 4: Installing the new counter and sink.
Day 5: the day of plumbing...installing the dishwasher, garbage disposal and making the sink work (without leaking--Day 4 he had the sink plugged in but it leaked).
The finished room!
(well, almost, he has to come back tomorrow to do a few finishing things but otherwise it's all done! Except the part of a wall that we need to paint--see the 2nd picture)
The boys had fun checking out the new cupboards...
We love it!! What a huge change it made for us!