You do know I was kidding right? Now I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt!!!!!

NO! I THOUGHT YOU WERE SERIOUS!!! :eek: I was thinking, "Janet, you must have lost your mind"! LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!

Oh how funny!!!!! LOLOL .....ROFLMBO!!!

OK, yesterday Gary decides to hook up the new sink faucet and pipes under the sink so that we will have kitchen water. He got it all done and we had a leak in one of the drain pipes. The old Gary would have just taken everything apart and tried again to fix it. But the Gary with all these darned health problems was so frustrated, I said let's just call a plumber. I thought he might be offended, but he wasn't so we did. When the plumber got here today, he said the $165 faucet we had purchased at Lowes, was a "piece of crap". He said this particular brand (Moens) is usually very good but this faucet was not good. So I took it back and he actually went with me and we opened the boxes of every faucet I liked and he picked the best one. I thought that was really nice. They are putting it in now, as we speak.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the tile guy shows up tomorrow to do the backsplash. I can hardly wait to get all this work DONE!

Your kitchen is going to look beautiful Gayle.

I think it was a very smart idea just to let the plumber take care of that little problem.

My kitchen looks very plain next to yours.

My kitchen in my old house was built in 1981 and I lived there 25 years and never did anything to update it. I'm really not much of a kitchen person. I was completely happy with my little 1980's kitchen.

This kitchen in the new house though, was a mishmash of white cabinets, oak cabinets, dark brown/black counter tops and gray counter tops. I was going to replace the gray counter tops with the brown/black but the more I looked at it, the more I didn't like the brown/black tops. I had some extra money, so I thought why not put in granite counter tops, since they would add value to the house, whereas the formica counter tops would not. I didn't expect we would pick such WILD granite, but Gary loved it and since he spends all day, every day here at the house, I thought, "Well, why not get something he would enjoy". I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever have a kitchen this nice. Now, I'll be afraid to use it! :D

Gayle, I love your granite!!! It is beautiful!!!! Can't wait to see the room all finished!!

OK, we still don't have the stove in but here are some pictures I took this evening. I'll try to take some more of the whole room after the stove is in place.

Your kitchen is really looking nice Gayle...can't wait to see it all finished. I do have to say you have really good taste.

It is so beautiful, Gayle! Gary was right to want the fancy granite! The tile is perfect too! I'm so happy for you that your kitchen is so gorgeous!

Are you getting light switches that match the tile? (I am very into light switch plates.)

I hope the stove gets installed today!!!!

Thanks ya'll! Judy, I was just thinking about getting new switch plates. I'm going to put up the old ones for now, but I am going to be shopping for some new ones that fit the decor. The ones I have are beige and so they will look OK, but I think some others might look better.

We called about the stove installation and we are still on the schedule for today, unfortunately, we don't know what time. :o Gary is stir crazy since he has been trapped in the house all week. So I sent him out to get a hair cut and maybe he will feel a little better. I have some things to do out and about, but they can wait. I just hate being trapped in the house all day.

OH! OH! The installation people just called and they will be here between 11:00 and 1:00. WHOO HOOO!!! I want Gary to be here when they install it - he knows better than me if everything is done right. He'll be back from his haircut soon and then we can get the rest of our errands done after the installation. We have to find baseboard to match the baseboard that was probably put in back in 1987. The good thing is the baseboard that needs to be replaced is in the kitchen and there isn't any other baseboard in the kitchen, so if we ended up having to put in a different style than the rest of the house, no one would even notice.

OK, here's a few pictures

Here's one more pic and then here is a pic of the corner where we took the office desk out. We still have to take those cabinets down and put them up in the garage. Then we need to replace the baseboard and get the holes in the wall filled and the whole room painted.

oops, the corner area pic didn't load, I'll try again

It looks really nice Gayle and everything matches so nice. You will really enjoy having a new kitchen.