Light Up!
It’s amazing what just throwing a little light on a situation can do.
The Kitchen Triangle gives me a headache every time I step into it. I hate the cupboards, the knobs, the vinyleum (what little is left of it), the countertops, the powder blue paint that someone saw fit to paint the door trim with, the abysmal backplash tiles and the fact it’s cramped and has no window…I could go on, but I’ll spare you.
It’s kind of our last frontier in terms of renovating – lots of great ideas, but no money to execute them. That and the disruption kitchen renos place on your family life have made us gun-shy about taking any major steps in the area where our appliances and inherited cupboards reside.
I like to think we’re just honing our skills for the day when we can afford to really go all out on the kitchen…but I’m probably being delusional. We’ll be doing a band-aid renovation in this area, and I must say we’ve been taking our sweet time about it.
But now, when I feel hopeless about our progress in this room, at least I can look up and see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Since we didn’t really have a better place to store it, we went ahead and installed the light we purchased at The Salvage Shop last Saturday. It looks better than the pigtail that was hanging there before, and definitely brightens up the room (and me).
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