I'm taking a moment to do a post on the kitchen remodel we did in November, right before Thanksgiving. When we moved into this house on Labor Day 2005, the kitchen counters were um, interesting. My DH seemed to like them, but I wasn't that impressed. Between the color (an ugly taupe at best) and the faux tile a previous owner attempted to do....you understand my dislike. After careful inspection I knew that the faux tile was a paint on job. Little did I know that it would be peeling off sooner rather than later.  Then there was this butcher block top as part of the counter on top of the dishwasher. It was higher than the rest of the counter and frankly I very rarely used it as a cutting board. Yes it was close to the refridgerator, but not close enough to the stove. So to me it was impractical and plain ugly. I'll spare you the ugly details of the sink and faucet.

After being disgusted for the 1000th time with the paint literally coming up when wiping down the counter, we went to Lowe's.  Armed with an extra section of wallpaper so that I could match up the wallpaper to the counter, we made a decision, after about two hours of looking. (Just so you know, I don't do wallpaper. I paint. After having to take down really, really ugly wallpaper at our previous house, I vowed to NEVER EVER wallpaper anywhere in my house. Because the wallpaper in the kitchen is okay, I'm not inclined to paint over it unless I absolutely have to.)

Picking out a simple thing as the color of a counter top about did me in. I definitely don't ever want to build a house and have 1000's of decisions to make about every little detail.  More power to ya'll that have done it.  So without further delay, here are some pictures.

The butcher block top. We actually saved this and it's very, very heavy. We have thoughts of making it into a table. We'll see if we ever accomplish that.

Can ya see the pretty (?) yellow underneath the ugly taupe?

Yup, had to put a towel down over that counter when we hand washed dishes.

Here's part of the counter demo. Thankfully the workers didn't ruin the wallpaper.

The counter and the sink are installed. Just waiting on the plumber to put in the faucet.

Such an improvement from before.

The other half of my kitchen. This picture is too light and yet the others are too dark. Yes the counters are a dark green, but they aren't black, nor as light as this picture makes them look.