The traditional third-trimester kitchen remodel

It is good when, on the same day a headline like this appears in the New York Times: Sales of Existing Homes Plunge Steeply, you close the sale of your San Francisco Bay Area home and are now the proud owner of only one house.

The proceeds you had hoped would be there for a kitchen remodel suddenly appear in your bank account.

(In case you missed it, we took the nail-biting risk of buying a new house before selling our old one, or even putting the old one on the market.  How did we do this?  The downpayment came from a home equity line of credit on the old house.  Scary scary scary. We've been paying three mortgages for two months.)

The kitchen in the new house is on the top of the list for rooms that we want to remodel.  It has tan and white fake brick walls, white cabinets with "gold" hardware, industrial-grade dark blue carpeting on the floor and a stovetop and wall oven.

Here's a before picture, from before we even bought the place.

And now it is time for the traditional third-trimester kitchen remodel to begin. Because it was so much fun to do it when I was pregnant with Jack at the last house. 

Nothing gets contractors moving faster than a hormonal crying very pregnant woman with rage in her eyes.  A pregnant woman who is hungry in that ravenous pregnant woman way because there is NO KITCHEN IN HER HOUSE. And she can't leave to go get food because she is waiting for the tile guy to deliver the tiles, and then he never shows up, and the store asks if she can wait for another four hours. 

Big fun. We have our initial meeting with the kitchen people on Sunday.

Comments

[maggie]

Oh wow. Carpeting AND fake brick? It's too much to bear. Good luck with the contractors!!!

[Aurelia]

That is truly the ugliest kitchen I've EVER seen. Except for my old one....no wonder I moved!

[Eva]

Wow, sounds delightful. And I'm all worked up over just getting new carpet. Remodeling is stressful and I'm not even pregnant!

[Carlynn]

Can we see pictures of the remodel? Yes? Please say yes.

I tiled my kitchen last year and yesterday I was looking at the wall and thinking, "Blue and white tiles would have looked so much nicer ..." At least I can live it vicariously through you.