3 Weeks Later

We’re now three weeks into the project. We’ve been to multiple stores multiple times and had multiple workmen here multiple times. The stove still lives in the dining room:

and we still can’t decide on tile:

but the gas line has been put in:

and we’ve cleared the counters so we can start taping up photocopies of that copper backsplash I want to see where we want it on the wall:

Tomorrow! Off to the granite shop for counters, which is a converted roller skating rink. After all this I have been informed that the counter top is the first thing you choose in a kitchen if you want everything to match and btw black granite is all the rage. NOT. Let me assure you I have no issue with Corian. I am holding on to that damned copper back splash with my very being. It is much cooler than the photo of the photocopies make it look above.

I’m rather proud of my meal planning abilities during all this. Over the past three weeks we have eaten out only once. The crock pot gets used about twice a week. We have a microwave for now (it will have to come out during construction. Of course, everything will be out then so I suppose it won’t matter) and there’s always the grill. If the temperature nears freezing I’m out there on the deck  cooking for a couple nights worth of meals.  Grilled steak salad chilled with crumbled cheese and viniagrette? To die for.