Kitchen Dreams

If you asked me last week, I would have told you that I dreamed of a kitchen that was beautiful. Ask me today and I'll tell you I dream of a kitchen that's not torn to pieces and has at least one inch of clear space on the countertop. What, you mean it's not normal to have the entire contents of your kitchen cabinets sitting out on your countertop?

*ahem*

To make myself feel better, and to give you a peek at what will *hopefully* look like our kitchen, I bring you INSPIRATION PICS!

We're doing the dark stained countertops, white painted cabinets and white subway tile backsplash. I WISH we could do the apron-front sink, but our sink is in a corner so it won't work. Instead, we're going to do a stainless steel undermount sink (like in the second pic).

So far, costs are as follows:

• $300 Countertops (this includes the stain and sealer. Actual cost of the countertops was only $216 for our whole kitchen!)
• $100 Subway Tile estimated cost
• $60 Paint, Primer, painting supplies
• $60 Undermount stainless sink from Craigslist
  
  Total cost of our Kitchen makeover = $520 and countless hours sanding/priming/painting/staining cutting, measuring etc.

I now understand the term "sweat equity."