The Kitchen

Our kitchen is interesting. It has the original pine cabinets and electric oven from the fifties paired with modern concrete countertops, electric cook-top (placed akimbo), and a lovely lime-green paint job. We actually considered stripping the layers of paint to preserve the original wood, but opted not to because the cost of the labor required to do so (too dangerous for us to do ourselves due to the led-based paint) was quoted to be about equal to what a new kitchen would cost us. Also, in the end we would be left with a kitchen that we really didn’t like very much anyway because the combo of modern and new is just plain weird.

Looking through a local paper, I came across an ad for an affordable green kitchen from Elegantly Green Home . Despite my concern that “affordable” really meant “your-first-born-not-required-for-purchase”, we decided to check it out. As it turns out, a custom built green kitchen from Anita Darash, the owner, really is only a little bit more expensive than an Ikea kitchen.

We decided on this kitchen (well, sort of--ours is much smaller and will not have the fancy island and appliances shown here):


Unfortunately, the turnaround is not quick for these cabinets, so we will be without a kitchen for a couple of weeks after we move in. A fridge, toaster oven, and outdoor grill will have to suffice while we wait (I’m not a big fan of waiting).