when you think of sparkly new kitchens

...you don't think as much about this:

Though we're making good progress, we're in the empty-the-entire-kitchen-of-all-contents stage of the renovation, meaning that our dining room, which used to look like this...

Now looks like this...

And our living room, which used to look like this...

Now looks like this...

And it's not like we have lots of extra space around these parts. Approximately 850 of our 1000 square feet are now totally dominated by tools, new kitchen fixtures awaiting installation, and the various former-and-future contents of the kitchen.

But seriously, now that we're seeing progress, it's all worth it. With the cabinets almost completely painted (biiiiiiiiig job!)....

And the yucky old tile floor with pink grout counting down its last hours...

Memories of the kitchen we first inherited from the last owner are starting to be but a distant memory.

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