New Kitchen (or at least half of it)

The kitchen is another one of those rooms that took a lot longer than we thought it would - but, then again, haven't all the rooms taken longer that we'd planned?  We have the work area of the kitchen done and now we're working on the eating area. 

Right after we moved in we removed the upper cabinets above the penninsula, and were left with just the soffit.  At Christmas El helped us remove that soffit and the soffit above the sink.  Another problem was that the room was really dark, so Jim took down the box light and installed recessed lights, undercounter lights, lights in the corner cabints, a new light above the sink and the big carriage light above the penninsula (yes, we do own GE stock). 

After we patched the ceiling, we added moldings on the soffits and on the penninsula base cabinets and installed a second-hand trash compactor from Craigs list.

All of the cabinets were primed, painted, antiqued and polyed inside and out.  The hinges got spray painted and the rest of the hardware was replaced. 

Next we tackled the backsplash.....

We had a large blank wall - so of course we had to put moldings on it............

We're still working on the eating area of the kitchen.  We've installed the base cabinets and added a bench seat.  We want to add shelves above the cabinets.........when we get to it.