{"id":8441,"date":"2023-05-18T15:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2023-05-18T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:10:28","slug":"counter-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/counter-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"COUNTER PRODUCTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started with the chairs. When the old IKEA chairs we’d had for ages kept collapsing, it was time. Anders and I did some online searching, which wasn’t fun because I couldn’t find anything I liked, and then we couldn’t find anything we agreed upon. We went to IKEA, MIO, Leander & Persson, and finally, Svenska Hem, where we found the ones we ended up with, almost exactly a year ago. They are a sort of smooth lovely avocado-ey green. <\/p>\n

And getting the chairs kickstarted the kitchen renovation project. Over the course of the year that followed, we got new appliances: dishwasher, microwave, stovetop (induction) and oven (convection). Anders does all the renovating and installing in our house, so things happened a bit at a time. We got new countertops: darker, slightly speckled with rectangular edges instead of rounded ones. We got a new fan for over the stove that lights up when you pull it out. We went tile shopping and found the perfect tile to replace our previously perfect tile. <\/p>\n

While I was in the US during March and April, Anders went into high gear and started the big jobs: tiling, grouting, painting the woodwork, sending the cabinet and drawer fronts off to be professionally painted. Then he spackled and sanded the walls (which were wallpaper before). When I got home, the entire kitchen had plastic draping over everything, but it wasn’t enough to keep all that fine sanding dust out, so in addition to the renovation work, I did a THOROUGH cleaning of every cabinet and drawer, which meant going through everything and purging stuff we never use or don’t need. <\/p>\n

The cabinets are now the same color green as the chairs. And the walls are painted the lightest possible version of the same green. I painted the shelf white that holds coffee mugs, then went shopping and found a new kitchen mat (plastmatta<\/em>), a new container for paper recycling (which sits in the corner), and new curtains. The curtains are hard to see in the photos, but they are a linen floral print that has hints of green, brown, grey, and the same peach-tone as the floor tiles. The splash tiles are a light grey-white, with a rustic finish. The last thing was hanging some stuff, including the chicken plates I found at an antique mall in North Carolina, and now we have a lovely new updated kitchen!<\/p>\n

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\nThe chairs that started it all<\/p>\n

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\nChicken plates!<\/p>\n

Mood: happy
\nMusic: Idde Schultz\u2014H\u00f6gre Mark<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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