The "Welsh Dresser" Kitchen Makeover -- Done!

Please join me at breakfast this Friday morning, as I show off our new Welsh Dresser cupboard
in our kitchen, and feast on freshly sliced strawberries and Greek Yogurt!

It's done!
Or at least near enough that we can use it this weekend, and tweak it in coming weeks.
It is a mini-makeover in our kitchen that turned this
(the big odd cabinet/counter on the left hand side of this picture) --

. . . into this:

Previous changes in the kitchen included soapstone countertops, a big single stainless sink in place of a chipped cast iron double, and a 5-burner gas cooktop to replace a smooth ceramic electric. That was on one side of the kitchen. On this side, the ugly too-big cabinet & counter remained.

Until this week.
We reconfigured the cabinets, added a hutch top and a new butcherblock countertop,
and -- well you can read about what we did in yesterday's post.

Last night I had a blast putting dishes on the shelves.

Hope the paint was dry enough!

I couldn't stop taking pictures this morning.
Shot more than 35, but I will mercifully spare you the complete album,
which includes shots of Howard removing refrigerator magnets to make the pictures nicer.

Too bad we forgot to clear off the top of the jam cupboard, to the left of the new cabinet;
we still haven't put everything away after all the fuss and bother of the remodeling.
Good thing we're among friends here.

Let's peek at some details;

I love little corners.

There's no overhead light at this end of the kitchen.
A small table lamp is just the ticket:

There's an overhang at the end of the cabinet, about a foot of countertop;
it's our breakfast bar for one.

We tucked a drafting stool there, and
I'm having breakfast for the first time at my new/old faux Welsh Dresser.

A favorite breakfast -- Greek Yogurt and sliced fruit. Today -- strawberries.

Heavenly.

If you are a yogurt fan and haven't tried Greek Yogurt you are missing out big time.

It's plain yogurt, comes in a range of "fats" -- we buy the zero-fat version but the 4% one
is to die for -- and I do sprinkle on a packet of Splenda when I have it with fruit.

In wintertime, bananas are divine. In summer, it's blueberries, then peaches, then pears, then. . . . you get the idea. Whatever is fresh and ripe. So much better than those fruit flavored yogurts.

We are lucky that our local supermarkets always have one brand or another of the Greek Yogurts on sale.

Now I'm going back to the kitchen to gaze at my new cupboard, while I finish cleaning up the mess we created in the making of it. This was a fast and cheap fix for this kitchen eyesore, and if we'd known what we were doing we probably would have done it differently. But that's okay; it works, and we like it, and it's a vast improvement over what was there before.

Please hop on over to Cindy's My Romantic Home blog, for a look-see
at other Show & Tell projects today.

And Michael at Designs By Gollum is hosting
Foodie Friday and who can resist that?

Now . . . time to finish prepping and primping That Old House for tomorrow's big 90th birthday party for my Dad. Crunch time! Hope you enjoyed our mini kitchen makeover saga. -- Cass