The cabinet guy came by today and replaced the broken hinge on the flip-out underneath the sink, and attached the faux panel above the fridge. There’s still an issue with the fridge itself – it’s ever so slightly off balance, and I guess there was some confusion or miscommunication between the cabinet guy and the contractor over who was going to handle that, so the fridge remains about an inch out from its cabinet until that’s been resolved. But otherwise, the kitchen is finally DONE.

It is hard, I admit, to look at it now, and remember the hideousness that we used to have, so before you go any further, please, refresh your memory

Yes. It really was that bad. The good news is that, after 3 1/2 months, all that is no more. Here is the finished kitchen, in all it’s lovely glory.

This is a view from the dining room. It was hard to get a good representation of color from this angle because there’s a lot of sun coming in from the window over the sink (I have plans of knitting a lace curtain for that window at some point, however, which will help).

Next up, a view toward the back part of the kitchen. See above explanation for why the fridge isn’t flush with its cabinet. This picture is the best representation of the wall color, which turned out better than we could have hoped. I adore that blue – it just makes me happy every time I walk into the kitchen (well, okay, that and the fact that there isn’t a single bit of crumbling black grout in sight).

And finally, a shot of the area with the microwave and oven. The cabinet on the right is currently completely empty because I am not entirely sure what to put in it. We will not speak of the two huge drawers beside the stove that are also still empty, nor of the still-empty shelves in the cabinets overhead.

We put up one more set of big shelves in the pantry, plus a little gadget that hangs on the wall and corrals all the mops and brooms and such, and so now there is plenty of space for all of my canning stuff, and all of the cleaning robots (Richard thinks this means we should refer to the pantry as the “servants’ quarters” – heh), and all manner of other stuff that needed places to live, with several shelves still empty and waiting, should we happen to need them.