Kitchen Remodel Update

Back in December, I wrote about my parent’s kitchen remodel project. The new kitchen has been completed since May, and for the last few months we’ve been breaking it in. That and doing laps around the center island with looks of blissful wonder on our faces. I don’t think it is exaggerating to say that that new kitchen has turned out better than anyone’s wildest expectations. We kids are frankly dumfounded that our parents, who took 15 years to buy a color television (all through my college they still watched TV in black and white) and could be poster children for the decision-phobic, managed to pull that off. Mom and dad had help (more on that later)

but even they are surprised by how well the kitchen has turned out. Lest you think I had anything to do with it, let me guarantee you that I did not. I inserted myself twice in the year-long project. Once to take my dad’s side on a gas range by electric, the other to take my mom’s side on ice cubes coming out of the door of the refrigerator being a good view. I additionally pleaded for a place for cookbooks. (Then I backed away. I’m no idiot.)

So, shall we start the tour?

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