Kitchen almost complete for now

Harris is putting knobs on the cabinets today and organizing pots, pans, cups, plates and all that in our amazingly huge space.

We picked these out from Anthropologie this weekend. They work perfectly with the cabinets and counters and really pull everything together.

Harris also made a huge rack to hold spices, tea, and other small things using the doorway that will go away one day and the remnants of the header boards from downstairs.

What's that, yeah, Harris installed headers in almost all of the places they are needed downstairs.

This weekend I both went to the dump and metal yard to get the yard cleaned up a bit. Harris and Madeline will most likely to going to the metal yard today to get rid of some more appliances that are taking up space in the house.

I've been cleaning and buying presents for Christmas. Just finished Madeline's stocking - she'll be getting lippies and nail polish in her stocking as well as some candy. If I could find blood oranges it would be complete. She's so observant that this year we had to buy specific paper for 'Santa presents' which is now sitting in my trunk, waiting to come out Christmas Eve when we have a wrapping party after she goes to bed.

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Budget

Dad was asking about the budget and how we're doing so far. Initially we had a total budget of about $350k for the house. As we negotiated the purchase price up and found more information about what the house needed that budget went to a maximum of about $415k. As of today, we anticipate spending around $400k or ~$111/sqft. As a comparison, Oakwood cost us $90/sqft and we sold for $106/sqft and the new owners are doing all kinds of neat stuff we dreamed about doing. So far we're under budget in a couple of areas, within budget but ahead of schedule in some (which can also be read as over budget...) and just going to be way over in a couple of key areas. Our original plan including making a temporary kitchen that we could live with, but would be massively overhauled within a year or two. Instead we decided to do it right the first time and enjoy it the entire time. To this end, our temp budget for cabs, appliances, and counters, was initally $5,600. However, that's g...

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Kitchen design

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