Kitchen Pictures

I am finally giving into the requests I have gotten to post pictures of our condo. I originally wanted to wait until the whole condo was finished but since it has taken a lot longer than I imagined, I'll just post room by room as it gets done. When we bought this condo from an old couple, I thought that it wouldn't be that difficult to fix up. I figured that after replacing the carpet, the light fixtures, and painting there really wouldn't be too much left. Boy was I wrong. Little did we know that it had mold, the entire place had been wallpapered, ripped half-way off, and then painted over, and that it hadn't been cleaned in what looked like to be 20 years to me. It was disgusting!! What made it all worse was that before Mark started his first year of Dental school, all we had gotten done on the place was 3/4 of the kitchen which meant the rest of the condo was pretty much up to me to fix until Mark had more time. Well anyways, luckily that is in the past and we are almost all finished. All we have left to do is finish stripping the wallpaper off one of our bathrooms, hang up some decorations, and tile the balcony. Hallelujah!
Here are the before and after pictures of our kitchen:

Notice how in the before picture that the grout in the tile is black. That's not because it was supposed to be black like I had thought the first time I was there, it was because it was filthy. I scrubbed every little crack twice with acid to get it clean. Obviously, not a great memory-- especially when the cleaning water was black after I had cleaned just one crack.