A New Beginning

Nutmeg Stairs and Cabinets here in Ellington is doing the renovation and Steve Luginbuhl is the job foreman. I have been working with their designer, Jonathan Brown, since the middle of December to come up with the design. It was a lot of fun and Jonathan was great to work with. I hope that what I visualize in my head will look just as nice in reality.

Vance and I built our house in 1988. At the time, we had been married for only 4 years and did not have any children. We liked contemporary homes and designed our home with lots of white. Our kitchen, as you can see in the photos, was white. White cabinets, white kitchen table, gray counter-tops, gray walls, black chairs, pale pink (almost white) half bath, off-white dining room ... you get the idea. Over time, the rest of our house has evolved, but now we are updating the remaining rooms. Good-bye white.

So we will be eating off paper plates, cooking on our grill or toaster oven or convection oven/microwave. I have an electric skillet. And a refrigerator. It almost feels like our week in the cabin in Lake George - but then again, that's only for week! There won't be much to clean and cooking will be limited, so I'll have lots more free time!