All I Want for Christmas is a Finished Kitchen

Of course, I also want world peace and to win the lottery, but right now I would be happy as pie to have a finished kitchen. My kitchen contractor stopped by last week and we discussed the details: staggered subway tile, black granite, lower cabinet locations, upper shelves. The plan was to be fully operational by Christmas. Yet, here we are on Christmas eve, with everything in boxes.

Good, Cheap and Fast - Pick Two

Traveling and house hunting (not for me) has put a kink in my new kitchen's construction schedule. The plan was to have my kitchen in before the holidays, but my kitchen contractor is backed up with another job. So I had to make do with a temporary IKEA table top on top of the cabinet boxes and make multiple trips to the garage to find miscellaneous mixer parts, during a prime holiday baking weekend. This is where my new motto, "Good, Cheap and Fast - Pick Two" reminds me that I'm waiting for the good contractor and saving lots of bucks. Fast will just have to wait.

I did go ahead and install one of the corner cabinets and lazy susans so that I could unpack the boxes. Living in the midst of boxes is never fun and the exact opposite of calming.