Can we talk a little bit more about the kitchen? And the dreams I have for it? K thanks.
So I showed you most of this yesterday, but we’re going to go into a bit more detail on a few things.
The sink is first. The sink that doesn’t plug on the one side. So the left side of this sink plugs. It also has a garburator, which is awesome! We didn’t have one in the other place, and its a really nice little feature. However, thats all this sink has to offer. The faucet is very very old, and the sink is very shallow. So in my perusing online, I found a great sink that is virtually the same size, two basins, about 3″ deeper, with a pull down faucet and a little soap guy in the corner. For a really nice price! Thanks, Costco! So we ordered it, and its sitting on the floor in the middle of the house, waiting to be installed. I hope we can transfer the garburator over. I’m sure we can. Can’t we? Regardless, that sink can’t be installed soon enough, hahaha!
You may or may not have noticed this empty patch in our cabinets. We had to take some cabinets out, and move some cabinets over, to make room for our superfridge, and the cabinet boxes weren’t exactly the same on the wall as well as the base, which is totally normal, but a bummer when you’re just trying to shift things, lol! It left us with this little empty zone. My hopes for this little space is that it’ll hold my spices and seasonings. See this kitchen has lots of cupboard space, but everything is a little on the smaller side, and most of our things (in this case, spices) are large. I don’t have a crazy variety, but what I do have is in big containers. And now that I spend a lot more time in the kitchen, I use them a lot more. The box on the counter below this little space is holding all my spices, and while its a system that works, I would just LOVE to get this box off my counter 😅 So. Shelves in here. As well as in the supply closet. And in the laundry room… I digress. Shelves.
Right beside that little space is my oven/microwave area. Now, I like this space. I raved a bit about how great my oven was yesterday, and I stand by that. It is a GREAT convection oven. I fit six big muffin pans in there at once yesterday! I still do have to shuffle them around a bit, but not too much at all. It did the BEST job on my banana bread. Like, it turned out PERFECTLY. I was THRILLED. My single beef with this oven is that its a bit narrow. While I can fit two muffin trays side by side, I can’t fit two cookie sheets side by side unless they’re the fairly small ones. Like, my smallest sized ones. And I got rid of most of those long ago for obvious reasons. So I wish that were a bit different. In my IDEAL world, I would love to ditch the microwave, and use this space up with a double wall oven 😍 Thats the dream! But in the meantime, I’m VERY grateful 💜 Don’t get me wrong, please! But. Someday. Wall oven.
There is still much to do in this place, but we are so happy to be here 💜 Our stack of projects is tall, but very few of them are BIG projects. Just a BIG list of SMALL projects, hahaha! And a handful of dreams that we’ll hem and haw over for the years to come.