There and back again

by chuckofish

It was a mad week full of long meetings, business-social events, and other time-consuming obligations, but I got through it by falling asleep at 8:30 every night. I decided that having to re-watch several episodes of NYPD Blue is a small price to pay for normal brain function. And I won’t be relaxing this weekend, for I have much to do.

Above all, I have to prepare for the dynamic duo’s return from their adventures in Kodiak, Alaska and Whistler, British Columbia.

Chris at Cheakmus Lake, BC (photo by N. Potter)

I must say that the scenery looks stupendous, if ominously remote.

In between cleaning and planning menus, I have to decide what my kitchen renovation will look like. Next Tuesday, while the DH is in Ottawa meeting the boy and his gal at the airport, I’ll be rushing home form work to meet the contractor and tell him what I want. Decisions, decisions. I find this part very difficult. I’m used to decorating one item at a time. Doing a whole room is a royal pain.

Of course, we have to deal with some constraints: a limited budget; a small, dark space, and a blue and white color scheme that I’m not going to change. We’ve chosen bamboo plank flooring, so that’s more or less settled.

Now it gets harder. I don’t want dark counters, partly because I love my vintage white Formica and partly because the kitchen is too small for such an expanse of dark. The current plan is to update the counters to a light quartz/engineered stone. The biggest challenge involves the once excellent, now battered hardwood cabinets. We don’t want to replace them, so we plan to paint them. But should they be white?

or a light blue?

At the moment I’m inclining toward white, primarily because finding the right color blue is nearly impossible, but we’ll see…I have three days to decide. Please leave your advice in a comment!

I leave you with Lt. Arthur Fancy’s sage comment: “The future keeps telling us what the past was about. You make the past mean different things by the way you use the time that comes after.”

All kitchen photos recovered from Google Images.