Dear Kitchen,: a house log

Even though it is been a full 12 months since you were at last completed, we appreciate you simply as much as we did back on day one (yes, even after those four challenging months of eating fast food every night). So a few words of thanks…

Thank you for being our home’s centerpiece. You are striking (but we are your parents, so of course we’d say that). You set the bar high for our house, and gave us the motivation to make sure the other rooms were up to par.

Thank you for introducing flow into our home. You can try to gloat about having the widest doorways in the house, but that is not about you – it is about you making it easier for us to breeze through you, letting us hear each other from across the house and (my go-to) allowing me to watch TV from the stove. Speaking of which…

Thank you for enduring my attempts at cooking. For the most part, you assist make those attempts more successful (bless you bonus prep space and storage for extra pans). And when they are not, your dishwasher makes cleaning up my disastrous culinary messes a lot less embarrassing.

Thank you for turning us into bloggers. We figured you were worth sharing with the universe, and lucky for us, the universe cared sufficient to listen. Turbodizin owes you one.

And, most of all, thank you for being done. Designing you and watching you come together was lively, exciting and educational- but it was truly, truly exhausting.

As we hear about my sister and her husband’s current kitchen remodel or read about other bloggers going through theirs, we are excited for them… but cannot say we’d die to be in their shoes. But we’d happily join them in admiring their new, striking kitchens once they are done (and eat any leftovers they care to share).

So dear kitchen, thank you. Here is to a delicious year #2.

Enjoy, The house team