Old and New

When we made the (difficult) decision to get rid of our vintage kitchen cabinets, I knew we wanted to try to sell them, as they are in good shape, beautiful wood, and still could be of great use to someone....just not us anymore. The main problems were that they didn't allow for much workable counter-top space since they came down so low and the lower cabinets were not deep enough to fit a dishwasher. 

So we asked the demo team to remove them carefully, and then they sat in our basement until we were able to list them on Craig's list. We had a buyer almost immediately, but that fell through when our vacation schedule did not match up with theirs. However, we had about 6-7 others that were interested and a contractor came and picked them up today, paying cash at our asking price! So glad they are going to be re-used!

And now......our kitchen is beginning to look like a kitchen again!
They started installing the cabinet 'boxes' today. Below you can see the sink wall cabinets and the peninsula coming out on the left. I believe the 2 narrow boxes by the front window (on the left) will go on either side of the range. (The big table in the middle is just their work bench.)

Our cabinets will be birch panels, shaker style, but the internal boxes are just the dark grey "TFL" that you see here.

And we have our cabinet staining sample. We think we're going to go with the next-to-last darkest, as it will match the existing wood the best. We are keeping the spice cabinet (re-purposed from an ironing board cupboard), the trim on the existing windows, and floor trim. Next step is to stain an entire panel for a larger sample, then make our final decision.

This is getting real....