Our First House - The Kitchen

This little rental house was our first house when we got married.
The kitchen is small. And it was kind of dirty (mainly the cupboards) when I moved in.

Almost all the cupboard doors looked like this.

 And the cupboard shelves all looked like this after my roommate, Leisa, and I tore out the ugly, dirty shelf-liner.

We even found a piece of melted chocolate underneath the shelf-liner in one cupboard. Yuck!

I first tried cleaning the cupboards with hot water, Pine Sol, and a scrub brush, as that's what my cleaning supplies consisted of at the time. But that didn't even put a dent into this greasy grime. So I went to the supermarket and got some stuff called "Dirty Jobs All Purpose Heavy Duty Degreaser." Thankfully, it worked well and I got most of the grit, grease, and grime out of, and off of, the cupboards. 

Now my kitchen looks something like this:

You might notice that the cupboards above the stove are quite high. The bottom shelf is very kind in that it comes right level with my eyebrows. In fact, I just went and looked and our refrigerator is not much higher then the bottom shelf!

Those cupboards are the pantry cupboards, so I spend a lot of time on my tiptoes, or else drag a chair in there to get to anything higher than the bottom shelf.

Next, we have the dishwasher, sink, and dish cupboards. (Please don't mind the mess. These photos were taken in the midst of moving things in. We are still working on that process.)

The dish cupboards are a bit lower, which means I can reach the second shelf without a stool.

I just realized that I am missing a photo. One set of cupboards which you aren't seeing are the ones above the kitchen sink. And they are crazy high up on the ceiling. Which all the cupboards go all the way up to the ceiling. However, for the set above the sink, the bottom shelf is a bit above Jason's head. He can reach them, but I pretty much have to stand on the counter in order to see into them. 

Stay tuned for part two in the tour of our house!