Crazy Kitchen

We started installing our kitchen cabinets yesterday with the excellent help and guidance of Doug's friend Buc. It's pretty complicated with all of the levelling and measuring and we are lucky to have someone who really knows what he is doing helping us.

We weren't originally planning to have yellow as a background color but since my attempt at using a neutral gray was such a miserable failure we switched. I guess I just don't like neutrals.

The yellow is a softer color than it appears here. It transitions very well from the yellow-green in the living/dining room and we are using it in the back hallway as well. I'm glad the cabinets look so nice because we have a huge pass-through opening. The color coordination is coming along nicely now. It's all a little brighter than I had originally envisioned, but I think it works. That yellow looks good with all of the other colors I like.

We picked out our countertop material two days ago. Please remember that I was the one, during the planning phase, who said "What's wrong with formica?" Apparently formica isn't good enough for one of us, so we are getting this instead:

It is indeed flabbergastingly beautiful, but one of us is going to have to pay a lot more attention and wipe up immediately all of the orange juice that one of us accidentally tends to spill and not wipe up. New house, new habits!

Why are we so broke?