poplar road

I've delayed this post a bit, hoping to get photos of the final result of the past weekend. Here is a little taste, but you'll have to wait for Wednesday night for the main event: we are both taking Wednesday off and will have a finished kitchen by the end of the day if we're lucky.

The first surprise for me when we got home Thursday night was that Richard finished painting three coats of "rosemary sprig" on our family/dining/entry walls while I was away, in addition to painting the ceilings and removing the last of the kitchen wallpaper.

In this shot from Saturday afternoon Richard is priming all 22 cupboard doors and 7 drawers, and I finished them off with a third coat of the same rosemary green as the walls (but in satin rather than eggshell) this afternoon. We also finished the kitchen walls (above the cupboards) in the same colour.

That's the only photo for now – the rest came out quite dark and all were from Saturday, before we put up our new light fixtures and finished the kitchen walls. It looks so wonderful in the "great room", with the green paint to tie all three spaces together, the green and white of snow and pines through the windows, and our new lights to make it brighter once the sun goes down. I look forward to showing off more of it later this week. (What was the next surprise? There were a few... stories for holiday visits, I think!)