If you can’t read my years-since-I’ve-taken-a-class Spanish, I’m pretty sure that says the kitchen has my love. With all this bathroom nonsense going on, I think my kitchen feels left out. So while I was at HOBO searching for a nonexistant perfect sink, I grabbed some new knobs that struck my fancy.
The knob on the left is new and the one on the right was one of the original knobs. If you look around the knobs, you can see just how worn down these cabinets are. They aren’t so high on my list of priorities right now. We still have 3 rooms to make less disgusting and hopefully new floors and windows coming soon. Eventually, though, we want to paint them. I can’t refinish them because — surprise, surprise — they aren’t made of wood! Those doors are some kind of plastic wood imposter. Also, they are oddly thin. We couldn’t use the screws the knobs came with to install them. I had to go to Lowes and grab some packages of screws that were the right length.
As soon as Alex and I had them installed, my sister came in to get something and said, “They are so much easier to grab!” So I guess they get points for being more ergonomically correct. These were an impulse buy (like so many other purchases are) so we didn’t get drawer pulls. If I see something I like that is 3 1/2 in and on sale, I could be persuaded to buy it. Until then, we’ll use our old weird pulls. The good news is these only cost me $17 including tax for 20 cabinet knobs. That is a steal these days. The extra screws ran me about $4 which brings my little update to $21. One Andrew Jackson helped stifle the growing impulse to overhaul the kitchen. I’m sure Alex’s blood pressure is grateful.
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