the real deal.

so. i am going to be spewing brutal truth via photographic uploads. i hate my kitchen. always have, except for those few blissful moments when we first found the house & decided to buy it. when i was under the influence of the 'love haze' we women tend to use to convince ourselves to move into homes with crap kitchens.

anyhow, this kitchen was so obviously built (i refuse to use the word designed, for there is an absolute & utter lack of the D word in the space.) by a man. a NON COOKING, NON DISH WASHING, NON DISH PUTTING AWAY, NEVER SETTING FOOT IN THE KITCHEN 1950's MAN. there is no counter space, no work triangle, & no end to my list of complaints. but you gotta deal with what youre dealt. so i have. for years. now, i hate it again, & it's time to review & reorganize. (maybe someday remodel.) with the fuel of yard sales & blogspot & lots n lots of redbull & coffee, i hereby vow to reorganize my LIFE kitchen cabinets. gotta start somewhere.

so here are the ugly uglies. i mean, befores.

just above the stove. no doors of course. we took them off when we first moved in to paint, & never got them back up. it's just something else i hate about the kitchen at this point. the worst is that everything in the cabinets gets coated in grease. yuck!

i had already started to empty it out when i remembered to go and grab the camera!
note the grease haze? blech.














enter the 'after all day' pics here:

but, what's this new development? just as i was finishing up for the day, a friend left me a wonderful prize!

the scissors were mine. arent they awesome? i paid close to nothing for them at a yard sale. i sort of just like to show off.

anyhow, since i couldnt just leave the job ~as was~ i decided to go ahead & ~finish for now~  you know what? i have an awful lot of projects that end up finished for now....but here's the goods.

so as aforementioned, this is just finished for now. i intend to spray paint all the lids to match. oh, & actually TOUCH the other shelves. but for now, im beat. i scrubbed alot of greasy jars today, yo. i gots them dishpan hands & sore soles!