ally carter

Saturday, July 05, 2008

The exorcism. In pictures.

It started with me cleaning out most of my kitchen cabinets.




And then the guys had to come and cut out the evil brace thing that served no purpose other than to make me miserable.


This, as you can imagine, required very sharp tools. And dust. Lots and lots of dust.




But then we started seeing some progress...


Like my new pull-out cookie sheet holder and trash can!



And now, of course, I finally have a pantry!

Sure, it's an incredibly shallow pantry, but I have to admit I sort of love it. Nothing ever gets lost in the back of the cabinet!

Plus, there's a place for the Baked Lays to go~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And, finally, my favorite feature, pull-out shelves for the one big lower cabinet. Yay!


I literally fit about twice as much stuff in there now that there are two full (pull out) shelves and no evil bar cutting the doorway in half!




So even though we're still not totally finished, I must say that this has probably been worth my time and money.

It's still not the custom kitchen of my dreams...

But it's a start.





-Ally

(and, yes, those flowers are from the zinnias that I started from seeds a few months ago. I told you zinnias were the one flower I could grow.)

21 Comments:

Anonymous Wghoops21 said...

Dear Ally,

Howdy! Love the awesome new trashcan slidy thing! Now much for me to say (I know that's shocking) other than
GG3 4 LIFE!

From a fan,
Wghoops21

1:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

congrats on the kitchen Ally!!

1:25 PM  
Blogger Ashley said...

YOU HAVE EASY MAC!!! Yum! I want some! Anyway glad to hear it all worked out!

2:03 PM  
Anonymous Erin, the redhead said...

That looks like a pretty nice kitchen. I really like it! Congrats! :)

2:08 PM  
Anonymous Horse Crazy said...

haha thats amazing! I cant tell you how much i love baked lays!!!!!!!! yum!!!!! :) We just redid our kitchen and it has a lot of the same features as yours! i love it! keep having fun with our Gallagher girls! lol
<3 :)

2:08 PM  
Anonymous Celeste Roberts said...

Good job ally!!!!! i knew you could grow plants!!!!! and yiur kitchen lokks positvely GLAM!!!!!! I LLLUUUVVVVV IT!!!!

2:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your kitchen is beautiful!! and finally the baked lays get their rightful place.

3:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i ♥ baked lays sooooooooooo much (especially the oringinal flavor)

Congrats on the kitchen!

3:31 PM  
Blogger Kat said...

You have an AWESOME kitchen! I LOVE the trashcan slider thingy, I need one of those lol. My mom and I are redoing/redecorating my whole house inside and out and I must say you have some great taste in kitchens lol. Congrats on having it almost finished!=D

4:48 PM  
Anonymous nor said...

the exorcism is all complete!! and the evil cabniets are officially gone!!! good luck with your start of the kitchen of your deams!!

5:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thts a cool cell phone in tht last pic!! i love the flowers!!!

6:43 PM  
Anonymous Kate-la said...

Wow - I have to say I'm kind of jealous of your kitchen Ally, haha. Congrats on the exorcism, and the death of the evil bar.

10:15 PM  
Anonymous Lisa said...

Nicely done on the kitchen, Ally! Now I want one that looks like that!

10:32 PM  
Anonymous priscilla sena said...

Congrats! That's so cool!

12:11 PM  
Anonymous priscilla sena said...

Oh, and you have those Quakers things that I love!

12:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your kitchen looks fantastic. We re-did our kitchen a few years agoincluding the floors. We couldn't walk on the floors for a week and since the kitchen is right in the middle of the house in order to get from one side to the other we had to walk outside. It wouldn't have been bad except I live in Wisconsin and it was the middle of January!

1:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A pull out cookie sheet holder? I didn't know they had those! Those quaker cheese things are soooo good! And I saw the baked lays in that picture! Your kitchen is starting to look like it came out of one of those housekeeping magazines. And your zinnias are very pretty. Have you seen Get Smart yet? If you put Liz in Steve Carrel's role, you practically get the same movie with a different lead!
*Marina*

2:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congratulations! I like your kitchen. So is the exercisom finished yet?
--Nadia

7:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yay ally! btw i love your kitchen!

8:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It looks lovely, I just wanted to mention that I just finished 2 of your books and i think they're absolutely brilliant, and i can't wait till the third comes out!!!!!!!!

8:57 PM  
Anonymous Devin said...

It looks really nice Ally. I like your refrigerator haha I think we might have the same one? I bet you're glad the whole thing is over though.

10:50 AM  

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