Kitchen Work - the island

Honey Pie is a gracious and generous man.  

He divvies up the finances quite fairly, giving me the household budget, 

groceries, clothing and and spending money.

  

I get to spend it the way I want, he does not give a hoot what I do with my left overs. 

I get left overs by using cloth diapers, coupons, bulk purchasing, buying clothes second hand etc.  

I shop at Aldi, Cermack, Michaels Fresh Market where I save 40-90% on my groceries.

I make our bread, we do not drink pop. 

We do not buy pre-cooked or prepared foods.  

We eat fruit & veggies instead of chips and Oreos.

It may not sound like much, but it adds up!

I saved my left overs for 2 years and got ... A KITCHEN REDO!

I am a Horchow girl on a Goodwill budget.  

I'm not complaining about it.  Far from it.   

The hunt for what I have in mind and the journey to make it into what I want, 

ahhhhh there is joy in that journey! 

I love to look at home dec ideas.

         In so doing, I stumbled across this hand carved beauty.  

Priced at $8, 550

(find it here http://www.finesgallery.com/InfopageMFP-333.htm)

 It is a little bit toooo ornate, even for me, and that is saying something.

Wonder what Frued would say about my desire for opulace?  Oh well, never mind.

I prefer something more like this, which I found in a magazine but cannot find online.  

Since it is NOT living room work time... YET...( insert minacial laughter here) what is a girl to DO with her dream of oh-so-fabulous-wood corbels?  

Where could they go in the kitchen?

(kitchen before)

I know what you are thinking... well duh Rachel...slap them on the island of course.

Yes, I think you are right.

Add a bit of paint, my oh-so-fab-corbels and a few pieces of trim later,

and you get.....

Taaaaa-Daaaa

Yes indeedie, it is the same island.  

And that my friends, is the story of the island that cloth diapers built.

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The boring detail stuff

I found these corbels 70% off at  http://www.osbornewood.com/

They recently ran them 90% off  

which made them around $70 each (paint grade)

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The actual WORK was done by Mike & Sarah Haiser of MGH Construction

contact them at http://www.mghconstruction.com/

where you can see more of my kitchen under the kitchen photos!