If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen!

This is the kitchen counter, which is covered with cleaning supplies, tools and some bottled water. There really isn't anything funny to say about this. In fact, it is kind of sad.

The cabinets could be nice, if they were stripped and painted white. Unfortunately, due to the age of the house, and my unwillingness to spend hours cooped up in the kitchen stripping, sanding, and rehanging doors, I have decided to rip the cabinets out of the wall and to start over with some newer, whiter cabinets and a fresh, clean countertop. The existing butcher block counter, while...interesting, is not something that fits into the vision for the kitchen.

Additionally, after some debate, and manifold opinions, my choice of a beige floor has won out over grey. The consensus (where there was a consensus) was that grey is not a kitchen color.

Any flooring, however, will be a vast improvement over the mess that is there now. The multicolored linoleum is ghastly, and no amount of mopping, scrubbing, and buffing can make it attractive. In fact, the first day in the house, I mopped the floor. The water was black with dirt, and the second go around was not much better.

The floor under the dishwasher was also a mess becuase of a leaky water line. This will be repaired on the 24th of April, and the new cabinets will go in later in the week.

Funnily enough, there was a rug on the floor in front of the dishwasher. It had been stapled to the floor to cover up missing linoleum. Interesting, very interesting. Just another surprise in the Green Monster.