Soffit-licious

So, let's talk kitchens, shall we?  Have you seen Rebecca's kitchen?  Over at Older and Wisor??  

She has a BUNCH of projects she's worked on, but her kitchen?  Oooooh.  
Her. 
Kitchen. 

And I do believe I need to steal her soffit treatment over here at Elizabeth Hill.  Because it is said that stealing imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, you know.



My soffits are non-functional (meaning they aren't hiding any ductwork or mechanicals underneath them).  And while I don't like them?  I know better than to rip them out.  I'd just be asking for disappointment there - what, with Zuddy's honey-do list not being touched as it is.  

So, enter Rebecca's project: 

But imagine it HERE:  

On a heavier note.  I realize it's frivolous to be writing about home projects and musing about kitchens and belly-aching about my 3 year-old kitchen project when the people of Haiti are struggling and hungry and homeless.  I've been glued to the news coverage and it's really hitting me hard...it all feels so......bad, you know? 

I feel helpless to do anything.  I've honestly been wondering how I can get down there and help.  But what the heck would I help with?  
I'm not a medical professional.  
I have no significant amount of money to give - or even money to get to Haiti for that matter. 
And then I don't know if my heart could handle what I would see when I got there.  
But I'm sure the Haitian hearts can't handle what they are seeing and experiencing and living every day.  So then it seems frivolous that I'm even saying that. 


So - suffice it to say that I will not be purchasing my materials for any work on the kitchen next week.  The small amount of 'extra' money from my weekly budget will be going to Haiti.


And, yes.  I feel like a fool even bringing up ugly soffits when so much suffering is going on.  

I'm lucky to even have soffits.

The Year of The Kitchen

The kitchen....ooohhhh, the kitchen.


I was starting to hate it..


I was thinking:

"Why did I paint the bottom cabinets gray?"  (answer: because I like gray it's my favorite color)


"Should I re-paint? Just do the bottoms white like the tops?"  (ummm...NO!  The whole reason I chose that countertop is because of the gray.)


"Do I really want those reclaimed wood floors?"  (Not really...but they are free. So tough noogies.)


But then?


I went to decorpad and saw this: 

Ummmm....hello?  It kinda looks like what I want this place to look like:

And if I'd just get going, it would be exactly what I want!  I found a photo of a kitchen with the dark grout I think I want:

And maybe I don't want big diamonds on the floor?

Maybe I want darker wood....like Anne Turner Carroll's kitchen?

 

Or maybe like this kitchen with a similar color scheme to mine?

I'll take that fridge, too, thankyouverymuch.

And look at this kitchen:

 

And this one!

I like 'em all and they all have gray cabinets.

So, now I'm back to feelin' it, sisters.

And I need to take it one step at a time.  

My first step?  To scrape the walls.  

I'm going to do it on Sunday.  I promise.

Hi.

My name is Martha.

I used to write in this blog.

Then? One day my computer crashed. It was the day after Thanksgiving.

It was all my fault. I got so excited after I saw the movie The Blind Side? That I went whoring all over the internet looking for information about Michael Oher and the Touhy family and picked up a little somethin'-somethin'.

So. There I was, no computer. You'd think with all that free time I had acquired that I'd finish my kitchen, right?

No. Nothing like that.

But I did find out I have a little girl!! A really nice one!

So I hung out with her. Played some old-school solitaire (No, really! I did! With actual cards!). Cleaned the basement and the carpets in the house. Christmas shopped. Worked. Traveled for work. Organized. You know - things we all did before we had 6 zillion blogs we were addicted to. (Not that I have that "crazy" amount of blogs! But I know YOU do.)

So, now I have a computer back....but no info. Our computer is like a shell of it's former self. We're supposed to have all of our stuff in there somewhere, see? But we can't find it.

And we have to re-install all of those plug-ins that make surfing the internet fun....but we don't want to do it until we have everything the way it should be.

So, basically I can email and that's it. Or write words in my blog, but that's it. No pictures. No good stuff.

I ventured over to my Google Reader page yesterday for the first time.
I have many posts to read.
It's over a thousand, but Google stops telling you the exact number after 1,000.

So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to mark them all as "read" and start the new year fresh!

Speaking of a fresh, new year.....do you make a resolution? What is it? Come on! I want to know! Write it in my comments! I haven't officially made one yet and I need some good ideas.