New kitchen??

There comes a time in every study period where your brain will turn to mush. That time happened on Saturday afternoon. Roger had been home from work for 2 days and was feeling better but not great. Molly was neglected from both of her parents being occupied and my brain refused to absorb any forms of information, including what I was trying to eat for a snack. So, it was at this moment that we all piled in the car for a ride. Where to? The road. We drove around all over the city, going no where in particular. We did need milk from the grocery store but that seems the one thing that we didn't get on our trip.

To tell you the state of my brain, I volunteered to go to Lowes to look at cabinets and didn't even think to ask for my usual payment of a DQ blizzard!! Shocking, I know!

We looked at their kitchen cabinet options and priced out the cheapest decent kitchen we could put together including new appliances. We were surprised to find some prebuilt cabinets already assembled at Lowes that were a very decent price. The unstained ones were by far the best price. So, this is the direction we are leaning towards for now.

After this, we came home and measured out the kitchen and Roger plugged the values into a program on the Lowe's website. Here is what we came up with.

Our fridge would stay and go in the corner and we would get a smaller stove (than they made in the 50s) and put a small cabinet to the right of it to cover the side of the stove. Molly loves to run around the corner while I'm pulling something out of the oven and it makes me really nervous.
We thought it might be nice to leave that far wall open, without cabinets because any cabinets would cover the window (which we would need to shorten). Still not sure on that idea, we're playing with a few different options.

Behind the wall is the laundry room which will just stay with the existing shelves. Isn't it so neat that the computer put light coming in from there because of the window! so cool.
And here is the view from the back door looking at the dining room doorway. That is a lot of counter space!! We are still up in the air about whether to put in a microwave with the vent over the stove. There is plenty of space for it on the counters but it would be nicer over the stove. Still a toss up right now.

We found some cheap ceramic floor at Lowe's for under 1$ a square foot that we'll probably go with for the floors. We think that there are hard wood floors under the linoleum but would cost 3$ a square foot to redo. It would look great, but ceramic will be fine and much cheaper if we do it our selves.

So this is our prospective kitchen. I reasoned out that I was still studying while working on the kitchen layout. I was studying the environment that bacteria and mold/fungi like to live! Yea, it's a stretch, I know.

So, what do you think? Everyone has their preferences on kitchens and we want to make a good decision on the layout, etc so that someone will eventually want to buy this house for lots of money! Love you all!