Soup's On

On your tour of our house, the next stop is our kitchen. To give you some bearings, just to the right of this room...

is where our kitchen table sits...

It's hard to tell in this shot, but those are curtains covering our back door. We have what looks like double doors where the left side doesn't open and the right side is the door. Both are inset with full length windows. These curtains were put up for the sake of privacy. You can't really tell from this picture, but they do look good. I hanged the rod for the valance too high (almost to the ceiling), so that will be lowered when I get around to it. There are also metal tie backs installed on either side so we can easily put back the curtains each morning. 

The light fixture over the kitchen table is not my favorite, so we bought a new one to go up. It just came so we haven't gotten to it yet. When the electrician was here, he put up a new electrical box and hanged the fixture to be centered over the table. It was originally hung too close to the doors.

The stools just made it to us from Memphis. They were in my house in TN, but we didn't have a place for them in the Odenton house. The picture above looks like a lot of odds and ends have been thrown together, but it presents much better in person. 

Here's the rest of the kitchen:

When I first toured this house with our Realtor, this was my least favorite part of the entire house. I LOVED the layout; I hated the colors. I'm a stainless steel, dark cabinet, granite counter top, ceramic tile flooring kind of girl. This kitchen looked SO plain.

After living with it a while and hearing Matt's thoughts, I like the white cabinets. They will keep the room looking bright and clean. However, there are many changes I want to make: stainless steel appliances; granite counter tops; pendant lighting over the island; and either hardwood or ceramic tile flooring. In the meantime, I've picked paint for this room and that's my next project. Yesterday, I ordered a rug runner for the backdoor too. I'm waiting for the rug to arrive, but I think it will be perfect. Just finding the right rug has taken me a long, long time.

After searching online and looking at several options for granite counter tops, I'm pretty sure I know which pattern will look best. I've been inspired by something I saw recently that looked spectacular.

Adding pendant lighting was my Mom's idea. She showed me a picture of a beautiful kitchen, recommending the wall color (similar to what I'll use in one of the bedrooms) and the pendant lighting. Now that I've given it thought and visualized what it will look like, I agree completely. Pendant lighting has been added to the list. Thanks, Mom.

Our first little improvement was the faucet for the sink. The one that came with the house was white and it had begun to deteriorate. Let's be honest, it was annoying (and ugly).

Matt bought me this for my birthday: 

I LOVE IT!! 

A new kitchen faucet was one of four things I asked for and he took me to Lowe's to pick it out together. He installed it that Saturday. I've been loving it ever since!