The New Kitchen (164)

It was a nice kitchen, then it went to "no kitchen, and now its "Super Kitchen"...
The Process took 3 months, but I must say with all the effort that it was fun, exciting , somewhat expensive, but very rewarding and enjoyable...

Sweet Pea and I first tossed around idea's, then one thing led to another and we started visiting places that displayed floor tile, hardwoods, counter tops....Lots of price and quality comparisons, and dreaming followed, more idea's started to emerge. Dreams followed that and then desires to turn dreams into reality...a little daring and money started to make all that happen...Guts even for a guy 69 and 20 some months to muster the energy, desire is one thing but energy to follow through and achieve this is something different..And a little luck here and there along the way, like finding out that at Lowes we could purchase Granite tops through CamriStone International Inc for less money than most of the manufactured tops like Staron and others...And that locals will meet the big boys prices in Indy if you just ask and work with them a bit....But it all happened and am glad it did...we do love the "new kitchen"...maybe its not really a super kitchen, maybe its a "just right kitchen"...we got two bar stools ordered from JC Penney that will finish it off by setting by that bar area..

Comes now the "Corbels", that in case you were unaware like me is a piece of wood or stone in this case, granite that supports another piece of granite, our "island" where many a breakfast, lunch and even maybe a candlelight dinner will be enjoyed...
Anyway corbels is just a word I had not known...now I can not only pronounce it and spell it but I even own three of them here pictured...they made them of the same stuff the big slab of granite we picked out near Valpo..after they cut out the counter tops there was enough left over to do the back splashes, a cutting board and our three corbels...they needed two big ones 14 by 14 inches weighing 50 pounds each we just put epoxy glue on them and held them in place for 5 minutes...after that they were stuck there and doing what they were designed to do holding up the granite that extended over the lower cabinet...I think they add some wow to the whole job...I love our corbels....

Well that's about it for today...the farmer in me will finish planting soybeans today, have had about 4 acres that has went unplanted because of wetness..but finally the spring rains of 09 have come to an end..wind and sunshine has dried that area and many like it throughout the midwest...planter will complete the planting season and we watch those last acres hurry to catch enough growing degrees to make a crop along with the earlier planted ones...

Have a great day...