Some more remodeling

We've been slowly working on our house for the last 10 months or so. Some of the projects, like finishing the kitchen, have had to wait because of expenses. We're still trying to catch up since Chase lost his job last fall. But last week, when our garbage disposal broke, we decided we had to do something. We could pay $55 to get our garbage disposal looked at, and possibly pieced back together to work marginally well for another couple of months under our home warranty, or we could pay $70 to get a brand new one. Which we did. However, we knew we needed to eventually get a new sink and counter tops, and it would be silly to install a new garbage disposal in our old sink if we were just going to replace it...you can see where I am going with this. So, we went to Ikea and found a "damaged" (slightly scratched) sink for 40% off and wood countertops that we liked that were pretty affordable. We only got countertops for the counter that has the sink right now, so for a while we will be mismatched. But that's okay, it's starting to look (and function) so much better in there!






This is what the sink area of our kitchen looked like before. Stained, ugly sink, disgusting old faucet, chipped countertops...





This is what it looks like now. Much better, right? We just need to add our colored glass tile backsplash, which Chase scored for $7 for the whole kitchen at a tile store sale!