We all have things we plan to do someday. Those of us who experience the joy of home ownership know this especially keenly. Someday, we'll fix the light on the back porch. Someday, we'll expand the garden onto the side yard. Someday, we'll remodel the kitchen. More often than not, the old song is right, "someday never comes." I cannot explain what happened in the fall, but in this house, we are making John Fogerty a liar.
As I write this, we are five days into the remodel of the kitchen. The floors are gone, walls are missing, and all the counters have been removed. The big paradox of building your dream kitchen is that you have to survive five weeks with no kitchen to do it.
It will be interesting to see which part of this process will be the most stressful: dealing with contractors, unexpected expenses, or being without a kitchen. For me, I think it is going to be the last one. The kitchen is the heart of any home and it physically sits very centrally to this house. We're five days into five weeks of having a hole in the middle of our home.
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