2010 Year of Pleasures #24

I spent an entire day last week trying to track down lumber options to have my kitchen island custom built, and guess what we found this weekend?

New Kitchen Island front

It was absolute serendipity. We were making plans to drive an hour a way in a rented pickup truck to buy the materials we’d need, when Bear got a text with a picture of the kitchen island and the text, “at Big Lots” from a number he didn’t recognize. Turns out that someone he works with saw it and thought it would be good for the office.

New kitchen island

Every kitchen island I looked at cost thousands of dollars. Even my custom made super simple one was going to cost $500. This one cost us $229 and a days labor. Now *this* is a kitchen I can work in.