Crown Moldings and a Working Kitchen!

Finally, a functional kitchen! Here is the new dishwasher, which has been getting a workout today as we are emptying boxes of dishes and washing the newsprint and dust off of them. We ate at our new table on real dishes with real utensils and glasses and home cooked food. It was wonderful.

I baked a small ham in the oven, it worked great.

Notice the crown molding in the laundry room and throughout the kitchen and dining room. It matches the cabinets and really classes the place up.


There's a view from the laundry through the kitchen, looking into the dining room. Much more open, even if it is still a galley kitchen. Without the huge fridge at one end and the enormous laundry closet at the other, it just feels so much more spacious.

Joe's Aunt Shirley gave us these placemats and matching napkins one Christmas, and they go perfectly with the new table. They're extra large, which means you have room for your plate, glass, and tableware on the mat, and room to spare. As the table is not topped with formica, we have to be a bit more careful about not getting water rings and such.