Kitchen & Den Tour!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Turkey jokes! Fun fact: I had one, and a friend had another (inside our poppers/crackers) and I read aloud "What do you get when you cross a turkey with an octopus?" and he yelled "Enough drumsticks for Thanksgiving!!!" and I was very impressed by his cleverness, but said "No! Eight feather dusters!" And then we realized we had the same joke with different answers. Weird!

 Now that we're back home and I got a chance to catch up on schoolwork and housework...the tour continues!

 Here is our Foyer/Entryway view of the kitchen.

Here is the dining room looking in, pantry on the left.

 The left side that shows the eat in kitchen area...

 Ignore the clutter on top of the fridge!

 Get a glimpse of my schedule there, with a better shot of eat in kitchen and a breakfast bar waaaaay over there.  The curtains hide the sliding glass doors to one side of the house.

Here we see some more seller goofs. Terribly caulked counter top line, weird plastic outlet that is broken over protruding drywall, unfinished ledge on pass through window?

We are planning on: replacing the counter tops to something a little more durable(granite?), extending it to the edge of that wall right there (more fun seating), painting the kitchen to something NOT YELLOW (I just do not like yellow), HOPEFULLY re-painting the cabinets to a white color & adding hardware, replace the large fluorescent light and put in a backsplash!

Now onto the Den! This stands directly above the murder room (both are additions, but unsure of when they were built)

 Thanksgiving Decorations are packed away, but not in this shot. Oops!

 We see a chalkboard having an identity crisis (reads: I want to be a mirror (I am planning on tackling the mirror project soon))

 The right side (curtains are again hiding the sliding glass door out to the deck)...TV is unsure of its position in the room yet.

 I'm standing on the chair for fun.  Jaina (cat) has discovered how to hop through the pass through window there, so we have to keep stuff up there to deter her. She is skulking in the background by the other curtains (oh, and that's our laundry closet)

 Here we have a VERY large shelf. Our friend came over and commented "It's very shelfy in here." That seems pretty accurate. We're not entirely sure what we're doing with that shelf yet, but it does need to be primed and painted. Lazy seller point two!

Just so no one misses the fake fireplace. Kyle made fun of me for days for picking up this fake fireplace on clearance (originally 170, then priced at 45, woo savings!). But as you can see, we have a pretend fireplace that has cloth hanging down and insulation directly behind it. It bothered me, so I put a fake fireplace in.

Now we use it every day as the den is a bit chillier than the rest of the house. 

We have to: paint this room (same color as kitchen when we re-do the kitchen), finish the very large shelf.

Oh, and bonus garage shots:

 As you can see, nothing is very organized. Everything is tossed in. Kyle likes the pegboard on the far wall there.

The floor is kinda fun. We haven't entirely decided if we're going to motorize the door and park in there yet. 

One day we will muster up the motivation to repaint the pink?! garage, but it is not happening any time soon. Perhaps when the weather is nice and we can throw open the door for ventilation!

That concludes the interior of the house!