It’s finished! Our amazing kitchen, compliments of Merillat is complete and we survived with our sanity, marriage and sense of humor still in tact.
Kitchen remodels are often the stuff horror movies are made of–contractors who screw things up, delay after delay, unexpected costs that leave your budget in the dust, not to mention the complete [...]

When last I wrote about the kitchen, we had just picked out all of the design details with cameramen in tow. Some of that footage was made into a video montage of our trip. Shortly after that post, Merillat began a blog of their own called Merillat Round Table. They began posting about our kitchen [...]

Well, actually, for me, the excitement is in the planning. Yesterday was a big day in the Merillat Good Life Kitchen remodel process.
We rose early and drove up to Redford, Michigan to visit Brian Dawe at Great Lakes Granite and Marble. Our mission was to choose our slab of granite as well as our sink [...]

Once upon a time, 1973 to be exact, there were two little girls. They both lived in Temperance, Michigan and they were both embarking on a big adventure…Kindergarten! They both were in Mrs. Hamilton’s class at Jackman Road Elementary School.
That’s about where their similarities ended. One was full of confidence, ready to take on the [...]

Today marked the official beginning of our journey into kitchen remodel-dom.
We were pleased to welcome Merillat representatives Mark Ayers, vice-president of marketing, Susan Cross, communications and public relations manager, and “Elliot the intern” from Eastern Michigan University. Joining them was Karin Bottomley, marketing manager of KSI Kitchen and Bath as well as several members of  [...]

I know a little bit about social media. My husband is a social media consultant who works from home. You pick some stuff up by osmosis that way, I suppose. Due to his influence, in the last year, I’ve joined Twitter and Facebook and started this blog–all social media outlets. I’ve seen him doing blogger [...]