My Bloomington Kitchen Remodel...page 9

9:21 on day 8 of the remodel. I spent a good part of Easter Sunday removing wallpaper from the kitchen. I found out that this kitchen was a very unattractive shade of blue before being covered in a Navajo print wall paper. Both poor choices from this person's standpoint.

But the wall is now ready for Tom the painter to mud, sand and paint, so it should look beautiful. We're going to use Sycamore Green from Restoration Hardware as the wall color. I use this color a lot because it works in so many different kinds of spaces. And it should work beautifully with the cabinetry and counter tops.

Already this morning my kitchen smells like hazelnut coffee, the morning drink of choice for my contractor Brent. The electricians are back and doing the final wiring. We are installing under cabinet lighting in addition to new inset lights in the soffit. I've learned that the most beautiful kitchen only look good with average lighting. Hopefully we've planned the lighting well enough to really make the space pop.

Crazy as it sounds to me, we are heading to NYC for the week while they continue the work. I have a friend coming in each evening and taking photos of each day's progress to email to me. Hopefully the work will all go smoothly.

Dinner last night...Pizza X again. The Pesto Mambo pizza is really great with pesto, broccoli, black olives and feta. Charlie has a pizza with at least four kinds of dead pig spread all over the top. He said it was delicious.