Moving in to the Kitchen - Getting Excited!

Now that we had all of our cabinets in, I decided that it was finally time to get the kitchen stuff back into the kitchen!! (Previously, it was in the dining, living and family rooms - some in boxes, some in crates from college!)

Since we moved all of the stuff out of the kitchen in August, this was huge (for me at least)! Figuring out where everything would go, trying to determine how I would use the space and cabinets...

...unpacking dishes that hadn't been used since before we moved...

...finding places for all that stuff that gets used, but not that often...

...and, of course - stashing food in the pantry! My favorite part are the roll-out tray on the bottom part of the pantry - space for everything, and I don't have to pull everything out to get to that item at the back!

Finally lots of boxes were unpacked, kitchen utensils and appliances were found (another reason it's hard to do much when you're living out of boxes in the kitchen), and space was created in other rooms. We took all of the flattened boxes (acting as paint and dust protectors) off the floors, polished the wood floors that were covered in plastering dust, and moved the dining room table out of the living room and back into the dining room!

It was a little weird at first not to be eating in the living room (as that was the main area everything was located during the remodeling), but finally things were coming together, and our kitchen felt more like a kitchen. Only 2 weeks to wait for a countertop (and water)!!!