Brady had to work on January 30th and 31st, and I was kind of bummed about it. I said to him multiple times, who is going to come in on New Years Eve for anything big or important??
Turns out, lots of people! Because as everyone is sitting home together, living within their walls a little more than usual, with everyone home, and add to that coming into a new season, people be planning!
And the only reason I accepted that as truth is because we were doing it, too 😅
The bigger our family the gets, the more fun I start having in the kitchen, and the more I realize I’d like to change it a little, lol! And this isn’t news. Since we moved here, we built a big pantry, brought in two huge fridges and two huge freezers, and replaced the island top with an old table top that we can cut on. There are very few things I actually really miss about the Bitner house, but I miss that big beautiful island.
*sigh*
Our new home has more cabinets, but they’re doors rather than drawers, and everything is just a little more shallow. So we have a handful of goals that we will work on for a decent length of time. But the main thing we are prioritizing is getting a new stovetop. We love having a gas range, but this one is so very old. It’s white, and miserable to clean. When we light an element, it sometimes sparks on other elements. And frankly, its just a little small. Now that we have lots of people, we use big pots and big pans, as you can imagine. And the elements are so little, it takes absolute eons on boil a pot of water.
And as tends to happen, one project grows into many. We would choose a stovetop that is larger. A 36″ stovetop. And our island is set up for a 30″ stove top. So we would want to upgrade our island as well. Which means new cabinets as well as a new island top, because we really think we should go bigger.
So its become a bigger project, but we have time. There is no time crunch. Maybe if it drags on long enough, I can weasel a double wall oven out of the deal 🤣