Kitchen - Before

We are happy to have a new house but we are doing some serious work on it before we move in.  Here is an example of what we are doing with our kitchen.
Before:

A few days ago:

It's not easy work and we would have liked to buy a turn-key house but we simply can't afford the house we want without putting in a little (or a lot) of hard work first.

Christa has spent all week scraping popcorn texture off our ceilings.  She is working so hard to make the house a place we want to live for several years to come.