Kitchen In Progress

So I posted before about how we were going to start working on our kitchen. We did get it painted but then things kind of stalled. Okay....I got overwhelmed by the storage problems and just avoided the kitchen for a week or so.

Remember what it was like before with the blue trim, off-white dirty walls and stuff everywhere. Oh, and the lack of appliances...




Well here is the progress we've made so far:

Much better, though there's definitely room for improvement. For one my dear husband could take out the trash once in awhile, haha! And my kids could pick up their fridge magnets from under the new fridge :) And the rest of the problems are all on me.

My goals for the kitchen:

• Clear off counter space. Doesn't that look so cluttered up there, ugh!
  
• Add a shelf beside the fridge for more storage
• Get the mugs and such off of the fridge
• Find a better storage solution for the spices (any ideas?!). My wonderfully handy husband made that spice rack for me in college, wasn't he so sweet back then? But now it's value is mostly sentimental as our spices don't all fit on it anymore.
  
• Clean up that white board and make it into an attractive menu board and shopping list.
• Add a window treatment, just something to bring in some color. That window faces our neighbor's old siding so privacy isn't an issue but obviously it's a pretty drab view.
• paint that awful door to the basement white to match the trim and the rest of the doors in the house.