Today’s fun started out at a Restore store in Logan, Utah, shopping for cupboards to use to build a kitchen island and a baking station. We got a sort of random bunch of cabinetry that had been torn from some house, and a countertop. There was no way to bring any of this home in our little Ford Escape, so I had to come home, then go back out again later in a truck to get it all. When I got there, they had received a few more pieces from the same house, and invited me to have a look. There were two wall cabinets, and two drawer cabinets. I snached up the drawer cabinets, because Iwas disappointed on the first trip that we did not get any. Next we loaded the five cabinets into the truck along with the countertop and headed home.
We unloaded right away and started experiementing in the kitchen with different layouts till we found one that would create a sufficient island, and enough room to walk fairly comfortably around it on all sides, including where the baking station will go.
What we came up with is a double cupboard facing the sink, and two drawers facing away from it at opposite ends.
We intend to build shalves on the back of the double cabinet and on the backs of the drawer cabinets where we can either set pots and pand if they are deep enough, of Mason Jars or other canisters of foodstuff if the shelves end up shallow. We are planning on covereing all of the cabinets with beadboard to match what’s going on the ceiling, then painting it all white in a high durability paint.
The baking station at the far corner of the kitchen will be a sort of hoosier cabinet when it is done, with most of the baking supplies there to prepare whatever pies, breads, pastries we want at a moment’s notice. With the oven on the opposite corner of the room, the island is right in the middle to line up breads as they rise, or trays of goodies as they wait to go into the oven.
I know the place looks a bit like a bomb hit it right now, but it should finish up nicely, and complete a sad and wanting kitchen that had poor lighting, not enough cabinet and drawer space, and nowhere near enough counter space. All of the cabinets and the counter top we bought today cost us a total $150, no tax, and all the procedes go to Restore, in support of Habitat For Humanity.
I’ll post more as things move along. We are working on relatively low budget, so this may go a little slow.
Oh, and it is snowing tonight. Nothing like in Washington DC and New York! But it was sure peaceful out when I went to feed all of te animals and collect three chicken eggs.