It's my fault we have a big pretty sink...

My husband was cutting out sections of the drywall above our sink, I think that's where I left off. I was trying not to panic. Oh! I forgot the best part! Well, a funny part. As I mentioned we needed a new stove and we knew we were going to be updating some things around the house. The very first thing we did was put the stove on the yard. Yup, we're the Clampett's of our street. It had to come out anyway so might as well git 'er done I suppose. I texted my next door neighbor to tell her I was sorry about the stove in the yard. She responded, "That's ok, there is a water heater on my front lawn." #solidarity

We arranged for a person that picks up and disposes of scrap metal to come get both items so they were only there overnight. That made the street look a little better.

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To get the stove out of the kitchen we had to move the refrigerator out of the way. We have a galley kitchen, it's kind of like a submarine. No one can move unless someone backs up. So the refrigerator went into the living room and got plugged back in. Did y'all know refrigerators have WHEELS? Did y'all know you're supposed to move them out to clean under them monthly? You should have seen the look on my face when my husband said, "Let's just move it. It's on wheels. Slide it."

Apparently I am over 400 cleaning sessions behind.

One of my favorite quotes during all this has been, "Honey I don't care. The fridge can stay in the living room." I do not remember what my husband said about the fridge, but I clearly had no issue leaving it where it was.

You know what else will come off? COUNTERTOPS. We wanted to update the countertops in the kitchen. We had those beige Formica ones that were so popular for so long. We wanted to do something nicer and that meant they had to go. I am not sure HOW I thought these things were changed out after a house was built but I really wasn't sure what was going to happen. A pry bar and a hammer was all it took for my husband to get the countertops loose. That's it. They came up so fast had I blinked I would have missed it!

This also meant the sink had to come out. It just... Lifts out. Disconnect all the pipes and hoses and other cordy stuff and it's out! It's a weird feeling when your sink is in your kitchen floor and your kitchen is on your dresser. This, this is where we began to have a problem. You see, we had considered getting a new sink, a "single bowl, single hole" sink my husband called it. This is becoming a popular look. So we started looking at sinks. LOTS of sinks.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY SINKS YOU CAN LOOK AT? There are stainless sinks, sinks that come with faucets, sinks that come without faucets, sinks that have openings for a hot and a cold faucet, sinks that have one opening for a dual temp faucet, sinks that have an opening to put a sprayer, sinks that don't allow room for a sprayer, sinks that are narrow, sinks that are wide, sinks that are deep, sinks that are more shallow, sinks that mount underneath the countertops, sinks that drop in over the countertops. My eyes glazed over. I was so confused.

Not the piece in our cart originally!

We put that on pause and went to find new countertops. We can't have a sink without them. In and out of stores we went, to many many websites and Pinterest we went. We ended up at our neighborhood Lowe's. He had said he wanted to get some imitation type granite to install and it would be less than $150. We found the piece he wanted and put it in the cart. Then we went to look at sinks (again).

This is where I made what has turned out to be an expensive observation. Standing in the aisle looking up at the wall of sinks I had wandered off to look at the "higher end" ones just because I get distracted by shiny things. I gazed at one farmhouse looking style. I thought it looked like a modern farmhouse style, I'm not sure if it really did. It was large, single bowl, squared corners, not rounded, and had a really pretty apron on the front. My husband walked over to me and saw the same one. He asked what I thought about that one. Assuming he was just indulging me because I like shiny things I looked at him and said the words that cost us $400... "It's pretty."

Yup, that's the pretty sink

Before I realized it, it was on our flat cart and we were buying a $400 sink. I kept telling my husband we didn't have to just because I said it was pretty. I felt guilty. I don't know why. We are grown adults and earned all the money we were spending. We could do what we wanted with it. He looked at me and smiled with an indulgent, loving smile that said he was happy to be able to do this for me and said, "Yes, I know, but you didn't see your face when you said 'It's pretty.'" I am now terrified to say anything is pretty...

We began walking towards the front and he stopped in front of a display in the middle aisle of butcher block countertops. He turned and looked at the countertop piece he had picked out. The sink, he said, changed everything. He didn't think it would go with the countertop we had on the cart. The butcher block caught his eye. Then it caught mine. I thought it was pretty but I dared not say so. We discussed it. We decided a dark stained butcher block would go with the modern farmhouse style sink better. It would also be almost double the price with tax. We were about to save a ton of money on flooring though, so it ended up being a wash out.

There is more to this visit but the flooring is a whole different ball of wax... That will be the next installment. If you want to know some of the handtools we use, a good prybar can be seen here (aff link): https://amzn.to/376KdZd

Be well, y'all!