Well...you saw what the kitchen looked like before.

Here it is - now!

looks like a different room altogether doesn't it?

The doors and drawers were taken off, hardware put into a box, and doors carted downstairs to be spray painted, first grey, then white.

Then, the kitchen was masked off, and the cupboards themselves got their undercoat of grey, before the white topcoat. 
The blue tape and paper was in place to prevent everything that was not going to be painted, from being painted.
It was worth it - worth every bit of the fuss and mess, and many thanks to my son Scott, proprieter of Aethical Painters - for doing all the work. 
Once the painting was done, the doors and hardware re-installed and the new counter top put in, it was my turn to get out my tiling tools and put in the back splash with the wonderful clay tiles we got at "Restore". 
We are almost finished with the renovations on this house.  Just about time to call in the Realter.

Under Construction

I'm sitting here, well, hiding here if you must know - while from the kitchen come the sounds or drills and saws as the new counter top is being installed.  Outside it is snowing.  Libby is hiding downstairs as far away from the hub bub as she can get. 
It's interesting, being in a construction zone.  But actually this isn't bad.  Scott has done a superb job painting the kitchen cabinets a lovely clean white and installing the new copper door pulls.
 The biggest problem this morning was getting the sink out - actually the sink wasn't bad - it was the kitchen tap that gave us the most grief. 
And, the water is shut off in the entire house because for some unexplained reason, when this house was constructed, no under sink shut offs were put in place.

So...I'm knitting socks.

Not just any old socks either.  I have this bin, where I toss all the sock weight left overs when I have finished a pair of Socks.  I keep meaning to make something small - baby socks which are very cute work with this stuff of course - but I got the bin out the other day and spread yarn all over the floor - mixing and matching, and putting colour families together. 
Here is the first sock coming along from the blue family.

And look what is waiting in the wings!  This is going to be fun.  I'm calling it "Sock Therapy".
 The idea came from Terry Morris - sailingknitter.blogspot.com who was featured in the latest issue of Uppercase Magazine.  Terry calls her socks Potluck socks.  This makes a totally unique pair of socks that may or may not match exactly - But that's part of the fun.

Counter tops are almost in - on we go.