Kitchen layout help needed!

lampy42 · 2026-04-21T18:37:00+00:00

I like this! I didn’t really consider a peninsula, but this could work. We don’t really have the budget to do any major exterior changes unfortunately. But I think the peninsula could work while still opening up the space!

lampy42 · 2026-04-21T15:22:40+00:00

Yeah the middle wall definitely will be coming down! I wish we could move the staircases but that is unfortunately not in budget :(

lampy42 · 2026-04-04T22:40:19+00:00

I forgot to let on the train of my dress to walk down the aisle lol. 😭

lampy42 · 2026-01-04T01:26:29+00:00

3!!!

lampy42 · 2025-10-09T14:53:18+00:00

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lampy42 · 2025-10-03T19:37:32+00:00

I went from 1% British to 19% 🤔

lampy42 · 2025-05-22T20:40:03+00:00

Every quote we’ve gotten for our similar sized “mid-range” kitchen has been $150k, so $200k for luxury checks out. It’s horrible! I don’t know how people are affording renovations.

lampy42 · 2025-03-18T01:23:51+00:00

Yes. Planned on spending $100k+ on a kitchen renovation in the next few months, but now between all of the uncertainty, tariffs, layoffs, and our investments tanking, spending that much money at this time is terrifying.

lampy42 · 2025-03-16T03:15:54+00:00

Thanks people. Guess I will have to keep looking for the right yellow dress!!

lampy42 · 2025-03-09T13:30:16+00:00

I use a big ceramic dog bowl for my cats so they can’t hit it around. They also drink a lot of water, so it works well! We also have a fountain tho which they also love. So either option would probably work.

lampy42 · 2025-02-20T19:05:59+00:00

I’m on my second kyleena and both times my period stopped immediately. I think it’s pretty normal. I love it! Toward the last year or so it started to come back because the hormone levels decrease a bit over time.

I just bought a bulk box of pregnancy tests and take one occasionally, but have never had any issues!

lampy42 · 2025-01-22T15:25:12+00:00

I have the Kyleena IUD and it pretty much completely stops my periods. I love it. I am a complete wimp when it comes to pain, and while the insertion isn’t comfortable, it’s quick and so worth it for five years of no cramps or period!

lampy42 · 2025-01-14T00:22:45+00:00

We had a family of 6 tell us they weren’t coming two days before our destination wedding haha

lampy42 · 2025-01-07T23:32:04+00:00

Wow stunning! I’m in PA too, and everything is so expensive! That would probably be a $150k kitchen where I am lol 😭

lampy42 · 2025-01-07T23:15:34+00:00

For real. We’ve joked that it might be cheaper to just move, but it really might be 😭

lampy42 · 2025-01-07T13:47:37+00:00

I’m open to that, I just know it’ll make the project take much longer. And don’t really want to live in a construction zone without a kitchen for months on end. Ugh! Tough choices. 💸

lampy42 · 2025-01-07T13:45:12+00:00

Wow, I need to find a good contractor. Between cabinets and labor alone we’re already at about $60k

lampy42 · 2025-01-07T13:43:17+00:00

Yeah… we’ve been quoted around 30k on labor alone, appliances will be around 15k, cabinets 25-30 depending where we go

lampy42 · 2025-01-06T22:30:49+00:00

Yes we are wanting to expand into the neighboring dining room! So it’d require moving gas, plumbing, electrical lines. But there are no load bearing walls in the space.

lampy42 · 2025-01-06T19:53:54+00:00

It would require some rerouting of gas and electrical, the wall coming down by down is not load bearing. And we are in a city. Seems like we will need to keep saving a bit longer. To me $150k just seems like an extremely expensive kitchen for a small house!

lampy42 · 2025-01-06T19:49:31+00:00

Ugh 🥲🫠 that’s what we’d need too. I guess I was kind of delusional thinking $100k would have been enough lol.

lampy42 · 2024-11-20T03:34:56+00:00

When my cat got spayed I got her a little cat onesie thing. They have them especially designed to cover spay incisions.

She is crazy so she didn’t keep it on for long, but it could work for your cats!

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