Kitchen Inspiration

I've been in a kitchen state of mind lately. I suppose you could say that I'm in the "heavily thinking" stage. I'm pretty much consumed with cabinets, counters, floating shelves, and shiny appliances. So, how are we going to turn this into our dream kitchen?



With lot's of patience, research, good ideas, and good deals. It's coming together very nicely in my head. I've been telling JC for a while now that my plan is to ditch all the upper cabinets and put in some open shelves. The look on his face told me he was picturing fur and grease covered dishes and
maybe this image jumped to his mind:



Needless to say, he was completely against it. Lately he's been warming up to the idea, especially since I started showing him pictures of what I was actually talking about:



The open shelves on either side of the window are a big YES. Love those chunky shelves:



We went over to a friend's house the other night to check out their recently renovated kitchen and their custom-made cabinets. They were fancy shmancy and gave us LOT'S of great ideas. I'm glad we're taking our time with this, it'll be worth the wait. I'm sure I will have thought/talked all the details to death by the time we actually start. I'm just trying to hold myself back at this point. Everything within me wants to attack my cabinets with a paint brush but I know it will just be a waste of my time since they will be completely replaced in the semi near future. Gah, patience.