Woo hoo!!! It's looking awesome!

Exciting! You counters look kind of like mine. What are they?

What??!!?? I think I went about a year without a backsplash and even longer with blue tape for door pulls. I'm impressed!!

I love the handles and counters. What are they?

Owlface, I believe we may have the same rug. :)

Congrats on the counters - looks beautiful.

It looks great, but posting just this one picture is blatantly unfair ;)

I was just about to ask about the rug. Off-topic but I'd love to see a pic of that too!

I like your countertops.

Love your sense of humor. And your granite.

It looks great! I can't wait to see the whole thing!

You're a tease!

LOL about the tiny fools.

Ah, not the same rug after all. Mine is from JCPenney. I can't find it online, so maybe they've discontinued it. Like a fool I went for the one with lots of white/near white for the background because it made the reds in the flowers pop. Now I live with a F#@K ton of kids, so it's not going to survive. But it was one good solid year of beautiful! LOL

I'm so glad the peninsula is working out for you. TINY FOOLS! I'm kind of sad we're putting in an island with seating in our kitchen, because the kids never had a reason to hang in the kitchen before and the pocket doors were handy to close and shut out their video game noise. Sigh. Maybe I should institute a rule that if you venture away from the seating island and over to the prep island that you're volunteering to become a helper. :)

We've got four kids but one goal with this remodel is to make this place the fun hangout house. And it's WORKING!! I have my four plus 4 extras here right now and I'm making cookies in my sweet new kitchen while I wait for the backsplash person to show up. And cheap rugs are the only way to go, then I don't feel bad replacing them after a couple years.

AND! Four cheap barstools at a garage sale for 16 dollars total! Not my dream stool by they are good placeholders while I hunt.

Four kids here, too. Love them! It's my misophonia that drives my desire to shut out the video game noise.

Why do my pictures all end up so squashed looking? And Cheryl Hewitt, if my kids were video gamers I'd go BANANAS. Most of the noise around her is yelling, singing, crying, or a combination of all three. Thank goodness for basements and fenced backyards.

Beautiful floors!

You are doing such a great job - love your style, girl...

and as for the faeflegnugaschnuga handles, I think I bought those...

Love it! I think we have the same pulls....Topknobs Pennington??

I have the same IKEA pulls. I've been really happy with them, although installation was a pain because my drawer fronts were thicker than their screw length. I had a ton of extra longer screws left from my bathroom cabinet hardware, but those darn Swedes and their metric system, argh. Luckily I found longer screws that worked great at Lowes. I had my heart set on the long rod pulls but could imagine hanging myself on my pants pocket as I walked by :) These were a great compromise and I love them!

I keep checking back for backsplash progess pics.

Ha.ha.HA. You and me both, Romy. The short version of that story is that people suck and I had to work very hard yesterday not to EAT ALL MY FEELINGS. The long version will have to wait for another day. I still don't have a backsplash.

Ugh on no backsplash. Have you considered painting the stools in a fun color since they're not permanent?

Did you drink your feelings? LOL Sorry about the backsplash issues.

Very nice, Owl:)

Cpartist, I do want to paint the stools! I thought about painting them each a different color since my dishes are so colorful and the rest of the kitchen is pretty neutral, but I don't wanna deal with fights over who gets the purple stool, ya know? I still might do it, but I have to ask my kids what their favorite colors are. If more than one kid says the same color, nope nope noparooni.