The Waiting Game

Every Friday morning Chris and I wake up very excited. I attribute this to a few things:
1. It's Friday. Who isn't excited?
2. We tend to celebrate reason 1 by getting a drive-through breakfast sandwich. It's a wonderful, delicious guilty pleasure.
3. Time to tear a link off this chain.



It may seem like a strange Friday habit, but it holds tremendous significance to us. Each link on the chain is a week of savings we need to do before we remodel the kitchen. So, each link removed is one less week to wait.

While we're not exactly nearing the end of the chain yet . . . .



it's a great reminder to us that we're closer than we used to be.

When waiting gets really hard, I go down to our basement and grab these items to line up:



We recently began stashing samples of the materials that will make up our future kitchen, so that we can remind ourselves why it's worth making do for a while longer, to do the kitchen how we really want.


Espresso stained Shaker-style oak cabinet door, Kashmir Gold granite for the countertops and Hampton Carrara marble subway tiles along the backsplash.


Hampton Carrara and St. Laurent marble for a checkered floor. Notice the paint swatch, in jalapeno, for bright, cheerful walls.

Chris and I are both big planners, so even though the kitchen remodel won't begin until next summer, we pretty much have the details ironed out. Here are a few other items that have inspired our plans.


Floor inspiration - we love the look of checkered tiles set diagonally.


A farmhouse sink with a bridge faucet will help us pull off the "craftsman" look we're trying to accomplish.


We love this granite because of the grain that looks like sand, and stretches all the way from one end of the counter to the other.


A new range with all 4 burners working! (Our current stove only has 2 functional burners). We want a gas range to help it fit in in an old-looking kitchen. The stainless steel may not be so craftsman, but I guess you can't win them all!