New Stuff Is EXCITING!!!

On Friday I ordered our new kitchen cabinets...wooo wooo six weeks away from wonderful chaos! Yes...we did change the style and went with a more workable 'L' shaped kitchen...I got EVERYTHING I wanted this way and less wasted space! Plus my kitchen/Dining area will feel much bigger! The cupboards are basically going to be this colour...Maple in Espresso. I have yet to choose a countertop but I'm thinking something in a lighter colour...and my double sink is a Granite composite in Champagne.

To the right of the fridge is my pantry with pull out drawers and to the left is a broom closet. Of course there's plenty of storage in the cupboards above.

I have many wonderful full extend drawers for all of my stuff. The "cabinet" on the left is a special make just for me! The appliance garage will hide my microwave! The upper cupboard to the left of the stove will have some tray dividers for my cookie sheets and pans. The lower cupboard to the right of the stove is actually a pull out spice rack...and there is a corner cupboard there but no lazy susan cause I hate them! My sink cabinet includes a tilt out tray to hide icky scrubbies. The far right upper cupboard (that you can't really see) is a corner unit with glass door to show off some of my nicer crystal.

Last week my special order chandelier for our bedroom came in and on saturday we went and picked it up...I also splurged and bought a fancy light switch for it! Fancy meaning it's a dimmer switch with a remote!!! The remote is important because then we won't argue over who has to go turn off the lights!

And....(Drumroll................) Yesterday....Ike went and picked up our gorgeous flooring! (Tropical Walnut) It's even better than I thought! I can't wait for it to be installed!!!!

Murderers!!

We are official tree murderers! Yep...show no mercy...hack them down like savage beasts and haul their carcasses away to the compost! I hated those pine trees anyhow and chokecherries have never really been my favorite either. Look how much cleaner it is and how much bigger our yard looks!(You may need to compare pictures with a past blog) All done by hand! Rrraaawrrr! :)

The concrete boys were hard at work prepping the yard for our garage floor. Today the piers were done...hopefully it won't be much longer for the rest of the concrete work!

Upgrades

Here's a bit of what we've been up to!

Bronco Brown....I LOVE it! It's like pumpkin pie! Soooo much nicer than the random combination of the original greenish and pinkish taupe colour.

Master bedroom got Phantom Mist on the accent wall (velvety black or very deep chocolate brown) and Heavy Cream on the rest. Will look great with our red paintings and new chandelier with red crystal droplets.

Claudia wanted purple and Roman Purple she got! Grandma painted a little surprise in her closet!

New light fixtures....They had this wonderful collection at Canadian Tire and some were on sale (even better)....Not only do they look wonderful in our house but they were made just for me as the collection was named "Candice"...How could I resist!? So we bought the dining room chandelier, two semi-flush matching for the front entrance and hallway, and a pendant matching for the side entrance....too awesome! Sooo much nicer than the rusty dusty lights she had with the missing glass shades and barely screwed on bases!