I'm no Martha hater and, as you've probably figured out, I have fantasies about having a clean and organized house (in my eternal anti-hoarding fight, I removed six bags of Goodwill-bound clothes from our closets this weekend). If our Ikea kitchen cabinets are ever installed, this a fantastic idea for storing trays:

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So, yeah, the kitchen. It's coming along, Rex has been doing a lot of work whenever he has time, which usually means a big burst of work about once a month. We now have the new floor under 80% of the kitchen, yay!
Of the many advantages of having Rex do all the work is that when he does things like removing the cabinet beneath the sink, but instead of leaving us sink-less for months, he built a structure to hold the old sink until we're ready for the new one (which is actually old and may have a crack in the porcelain, which may be a problem). He also taught himself to hook the gas stove up to a longer hose so that it can be moved over six inches. Impressive. Seriously.
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The Ikea cabinets-- glossy white Abstrakt with birch counters-- are purchased, but not yet delivered. All the decisions have been made, except for handles and lighting, so I really should stop scouring the internets for inspiring pictures, but I can't. It's a sickness.
So cute. (Two following pics.).


I'm still contemplating chalkboard paint.
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It's gorgeous. And it's making me rethink some of my kitchen ideas. Decorno posted about this kitchen yesterday, but then I found more pics here. I had decided to use one of Ikea's pantry cabinet in the redone kitchen, next to the fridge. Like this:

We badly need a broom closet somewhere. Anywhere. I really like how the Ikea pantries have all the little places for everything, but it would probably be a lot more interesting to have a pantry cabinet made from reclaimed wardrobe doors. Hmmm. One of our original ideas was to use new cabinets beneath the counter and reclaimed, interesting-looking cabinets above the counter. But then I started thinking new! shiny! cabinets are what I want. And now I am possibly returning to our original ideas. Remember how it took us nine years to buy a couch? Yeah.
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I'm in love with white paint right now. I wasn't until recently. I wanted color, even if it was a neutral color, on all the walls in the house. I now realize that the problem was dingy old no-longer white paint on most of our walls. Now I've got bee in my bonnet to paint everything a fresh white.
I love the plain walls and simple bedside tables in this picture. Our giant king-sized bed will probably never look that cute, but it is damn comfortable.

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The much-hated tile counter is gone. No more grout!
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