C'est Fini !

It's finished ! Gina finished the wall mural about ten days ago, and we have been getting used to everything. We love it ! Have done some cooking and baking (made cookies for book club) as well as just staring at it. I still haven't got everything organized and decorated just the way I want, but will be working on that over the next couple days. We are having a "reveal" for friends to come over and see on Sunday afternoon so I will have to have it whipped in to shape by then. Got out some Fall/Halloween decorations so will work with those.

This picture doesn't really capture the wall, so I will try again and also post some party pics after the weekend. Bye for now !

Details on the mural

Here are some close-ups of the mural wall, showing the colors and textures.

Say goodbye to the dish drawers...

We're going to return the dishwasher drawers, and I am so sad because they LOOK so cool ! Function is not so great though. First of all, stuff doesn't get dry after the wash cycle, even though it blows a fan for quite a while. Secondly, nothing really fits properly in the drawers. Our dinner dishes didn't fit, and nothing very tall fits. So we are back to square one and will have to go shopping again for a new dishwasher. The installers are coming to get this one next week...

Latest acquisition

We decided we just couldn't deal with a white dishwasher in our stainless kitchen. Our new Kitchenaid was installed on Thursday. Have only run it once so far, but it seems great. We can run more often/more efficiently by only running one drawer at a time. Plus it is just really cool.

Wall mural update

Great progress on the mural this last week. Here's what it looks like now... Only a few more days and it will be complete !