Making Big Purchases

 

 In order to do a renovation to your home, you must spend some money.  Just like  the game of Monoply, if you own property, you have to improve that property.  That means Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, Target, here we come.  The first thing to think about is you probably will want to buy new appliances.  We did, I researched what I wanted in appliances.  The color, Staintless Steel, the brand, KitchenAid.  I bought a single wall oven, a 4 burner gas cook top, an over the cook top microwave, and a french door refrigerator, and a dishwasher.  The appliances arrived January 5th.  Below is a picture of the Fridge.  The others are still in boxes waiting for a kitchen to be placed in.

The next thing we decided upon was cabinetry.  After looking at cabinet's in magazines and at the Home Improvement stores and thinking of building them ourselves, we choose Woodmark Cabinets from Home Depot.  We went and let the designer design our new kitchen.  My husband had drawn a diagram of what we wanted to do with our space.  The designer took over from there.  We ordered 17 new cabinets, which arrived January 27th.  We have inspected them and they are in boxes in our garage waiting also to be placed in our new kitchen along with the new appliances.  Below is a picture of my garage with the cabinets.

The next thing to think about is the type of counter top to add to these two purchases.  Let me tell you, shopping for these things are a lot of fun.  We decided to go with granite.  I went to several places and we went with East Coast Granite.  I was unaware of all the many colors of granite.  I finally choose the one in the picture below.  When our cabinets are in place East Coast will come out and make a measurement and cut this  and install the counter tops. 

We are planning on wood floors in the kitchen and dining room.  Below is a picture of the flooring.  We purchased this at Lowe's.

We also are going to use a backspash which we also purchased at Lowe's. 

I know I mentioned it before, but I just want to thank my wonderful husband for his ability to do all of this for us.