Day 17: Progress!

So much has happened in just two days. Yesterday the kitchen was fully painted, but today several things happened:

-Corner post was installed
-Flooring was installed
-Some of wall cabinets were hung and the island cabinets were placed

Needless to say, the kitchen is looking quite a bit different today.

The corner post is one of our favorite parts of the kitchen. We saved a few hundred dollars by purchasing a beam that was part of a barn that had recently been dismantled in Leechburg, PA. The barn was built nearly 100 years ago and we felt it would be a nice contrast to the modern look of the rest of the kitchen. For the last few weeks a few 2x4s were holding up our ceiling but now this solid oak beam is doing that job.

The cork flooring is also in (with a few patches of hardwood on the outskirts of the kitchen that still need to be stained to match our other flooring):

Several of the cabinets are in and I'm already dreaming about how I am going to organize the things that will go in them!