A kitchen fit for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is at our house this year. We are really excited to have family in town and to eat a lot of food. Two of my favorite things! Anyway, seeing as we will be spending a lot of time in the kitchen (cooking, eating, cleaning up, cooking, eating, cleaning up, etc.), we decided to give ours a mini-make over. Over the past few weekends we have painted, installed under cabinet lighting and put in a tile back splash. Doing the work ourselves saved us a ton of money and we learned a lot and had fun doing it! I think it looks fantastic!

I present you with the requisite "before" picture. Bland, ordinary and boring.


Drum roll please. And here is the "after" picture! Ta Da!

This picture doesn't show the under cabinet lighting (it is turned off). Zach took one with the lighting on and I was going to post it, but one of the cupboards was open. Boys just don't pay attention to little details like they should.

As I am writing this, however, it seems silly not to post it. We are all friends here. So here you go!

My most favorite part is the decorative area above the stove. It's a little crazy how it just worked out. Zach and I didn't measure before we bought the tiles or anything and given the fact that we came up with it and installed it at 2:30am, I am pretty impressed. You should be too.


Now Thanksgiving can officially come, and you can all quit harassing us (We love it.) for pictures. :)