One of our projects this summer was replacing the windows in our kitchen. We hired a contractor last January and he came the last week of June. He was worth waiting for...he schedules a time to do the work and he only works on ONE project at a time, showing up every day, working all day, and he keeps coming back until the job is done - who's ever heard of that in the contracting world?!?!
Here's our old kitchen windows...I loved them for 27 years! They were big and beautiful and our kitchen always had natural light. Above the big window we had windows on top to let even more light in - those were the windows that had failed...the blinds are closed in this picture but I think you can still see them.
Along with the failed windows, I started noticing tiny little bugs in our wood windowsill - I told the mister then that the whole shebang had to be replaced - I couldn't deal with bugs in the kitchen! Plus the windowsill was soft...never a good sign. We had this entire window replaced 10 years ago - but we made the mistake of putting a wood windowsill back in, like the original windows had...live and learn folks! We always do the first part but forget the second!
When thinking about the new window, I asked if it could be brought up a bit so my windows wouldn't always be dirty - I seem to do an inordinate amount of splashing when I wash dishes. I thought raising the backsplash so it was 10-inches would be good...but it was raised MUCH higher than I thought it would be...ten inches turned into 15!!! And then the windows on top...we just don't ask enough questions...we thought we would be getting the very same thing, glass pretty much meeting glass, instead we now have 10-inches of wood up top where glass used to be!
All in all though, we have gotten used to our new view...we love the granite windowsill, wish we would have done that before! We love having the wall tiled and while the windows aren't as big, they are nice and the view is still great...first world problems, waaaaaah-waaaaaah!
It should be noted that I went 4 weeks without cooking anything of substance...and the mister survived just fine.
