Coming out of the closet....

Our china has spent the last 2+ years stacked in their original boxes in closets across the Nation.  Their first home was my parent's guest closet while we were engaged and my living situation was in limbo, then they moved to a utility closet in Orlando in our townhome due to lack of cabinet space, and then to our laundry room/storage closet in our Orlando condo due to lack of space all around, and then once we moved here they stayed in their boxes in two separate closets for fear they would get damaged during renovations.

Well, the dust has settled, the china cabinet has been cleared of all of our temporary kitchen essentials and it was time to get these boxes in the recycle after all this time!!  It was so fun to unbox it all -- felt kind of like when we were engaged and boxes were delivered almost daily!  Such a fun time ;)  So, here is the grand reveal....

Kitchen on Hold

Our kitchen demo and install were pushed back three weeks....frustrating!  I thought all along the kitchen would be done before we began the demo on our master bathroom; that was the goal at least.  However, the contractor we are using for our kitchen has decided to take a 10 day Alaskan cruise at the most inconvenient time for us and with no warning.  In the meantime, our main contractor, who has done almost all of the other major jobs in our house keeps pushing onward!

Kitchen cabinets in the garage - waiting for install

So, our garage will continue to be a cabinet warehouse until mid-September, and our master bathroom will be in reconstruction for the next few weeks.  The master bathroom and kitchen are the most major renovations you can do in a house, and it would figure we would be so lucky to going through both at the same time, despite all of our planning!  We continue to roll with the punches :)

Master bathroom - stripped down