From the category archives:

kitchen remodel

Cookware: Le Creuset or Calphalon One?

January 11, 2008

I know I’ve asked this before about the pots and pans. Except we ended up just not getting around to buying anything. We are procrastinators at this house.
I was looking through the Williams-Sonoma catalog, though, and saw this set of Le Creuset pans. The 6-piece set has a 10" grill pan, 14×10 baker, 3 [...]

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WFMW: How Do I Clean Real Wood Floors?

October 3, 2007

Husband has installed wood flooring throughout our downstairs. The first time he installed it (in the living room, dining room, hall, and powder room) I was seven months pregnant with Wild Thing. It took forever and I remember celebrating Easter on cement and being careful where I hid eggs so Max wouldn’t get lockjaw or [...]

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Cookware: What Do You Recommend?

August 17, 2007

Update: Thank you to everyone for your wonderful advice! I’m looking into all the options. At least now I have a place to start. I knew I could count on my wonderful readers! Thank you!
Y’all, I have the best husband EVAR. He says that our new kitchen must have new cookware. What we have we [...]

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The New Kitchen

August 6, 2007

In my family I’m not known as a chef. In fact, I think those in my family largely scoff at my kitchen abilities.
It all started when my mother was teaching me how to make spaghetti. By "teaching" I mean yelling directions at me from the living room where she was watching TV.
She walked me [...]

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Kitchen Renovation Update

June 18, 2007

We now have a ceiling, drywall, and wood flooring in the kitchen.

Then, the cabinets came in!

Paneling for various things:

My new pantry (I had a shelf before):

Today my new stove and my new fridge will magically appear and be installed. Soon, I will have a sink and dishwasher. Then? Then my friends, I will be in [...]

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I Really Love Him. I Do. But…

June 7, 2007

Y’all, Husband is a great husband and dad. Truly. I mean, he bought us tickets to Harry Connick, Jr. as a surprise and made a spa appointment for me at one of the most fabulous hotels we’ve ever stayed at. So, yes. He’s wonderful. (And when I can put my Harry experience into words, I [...]

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Kitchen Renovation

June 1, 2007

When we last discussed the kitchen renovation, we had only removed a wall. Since then we have…Torn down the kitchen ceiling and cleaned up mounds of insulation. If you remember, we decided to take the ceiling down because we found out the beam we thought was load-bearing, was not. Yay! So we started tearing out [...]

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I’m Getting a New…

April 4, 2007

KITCHEN!

Husband and I have been planning to gut our kitchen and completely re-do it for a year now. We were going to start the design process in October, 2006. Suffice it to say we are already behind schedule. We settled on our design one week ago. Our overall vision is a Mission/Arts & Crafts [...]

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