After stopping for a drive-by coffee and muffin at Toast, Gretchen and I headed up to the local recycled building supplies store to look at cabinets. We had been there the day before and were trying to decide between three sets. Gretchen wasn't much help deciding and Don said (foolishly) that he trusted my judgment, so I ended up picking these:
I think they'll go nicely with our black appliances. I need to pick out the flooring, and will likely get a leftover piece of marmolean from the local environmental builders supply company--the remnants are super cheap. I'm not sure what to do for the counters. Our contractor wants us to do tile, which we can get at the recycling places, but I would rather have some sort of solid counter top with no grout lines. I'm leaning toward paperstone. The photo on the paperstone page is of the restaurant Don used to work at. Strange.We kept hearing about this waffle place somewhere in town. They stole Don's dream, but whatever. We've been meaning to try it. When I walked of the cabinet place I saw it across the street. Yippee! I got myself a ham and gouda waffle. I took a bite and realized that I didn't want a ham and gouda waffle. Darn it all! Next time I'm going for a sweet waffle. What was I thinking?
The happy shopper. I had to put a sticker on each of the 17 cabinets, and Gretchen is obsessed with paper, so I gave her the paper that a sticker was on. She held on to it for hours. Scrunch scrunch scrunch...mmm...tasty...scrunch scrunch scrunch. Obsessed!
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Look at that cute little paper-crinkler. Pages out of magazines used to save us on our drives to Iowa.
And yeah, it's funny, but when I read "ham and gouda waffle," it sounded so good, but then, reading the nix on it, it suddenly seemed obvious.
Love the picture of the obsessional little chicken.
Kids + obsessions...
Funny, but I was just thinking about that this morning, as I stirred my chicory-coffee (organic, and meant to curb my coffee habit, though whether that's working is up in the air) ...I realised that I was stirring with one of the spoons that the boys lifted from cafés & restaurants when they were very small. As the stirring continued, and I looked at our spoon holder, which is usually too high up to look into, I realised that it was one of about 3,542. Eek!
I think we're pretty lucky to live in an area where recycling is so popular. A lot of homes up for demolition and remodeling around here now are being deconstructed rather than demolished. Makes it easier for those of us with old homes to find authentic replacement parts!
I have yet to use the earth friendly paint. We looked into it for Toast, but we were running out of money for the remodel and the paint was super expensive, so Don used some recycled regular paint and some new regular paint. I probably won't paint much until the summer and will look into the earth friendly paints then.