Changing the Plans & Butcher Block Countertop Inspiration
If 2020 has taught us anything it’s that plans change and sometimes it’s better to roll with the punches. While a lot of our life changes in 2020 have been somewhat out of control (see: postponed wedding hot mess), there just has to be a way for that “life on hold” feeling to be mitigated.
We’ve been motivated to finish our kitchen since we tore half of it apart and we’ve lived with a temporary plywood counter for the past YEAR waiting and budgeting for the kitchen we originally planned for. The quartz countertops and matching solid backsplash was always the dream. Since our kitchen is so central and open to our home these plans run through my mind daily and that feeling of mid-reno stuckness gets under my skin way more often than I’d like to admit.
Then I had a teeny epiphany.
The reality is with a delayed wedding and scheduling paying off that event in 2022, our dream kitchen would be the longest, most excruciating wait away. Maybe it’s silly to want that dream kitchen when this isn’t even our forever home. If only there was a way for us to create a beautiful design that was substantially cheaper, without it screaming “cheap” to future buyers.
Enter butcher block.
I embarrassingly admit that this was not even my idea originally. Sam suggested it as an alternative back before we got possession of the house and I wrote him off completely in the moment. “There’s no way for this to look like the upscale cottage bungalow that we were planning,” I thought. But as I sit here in the 1953058 day of quarantine I just want this kitchen done. I want to clear out the biggest, scariest parts of this to-do list. And maybe there IS a way for this to look super beautiful and homey.
Thus begun my collecting of inspiration for this “done is better than perfect” mission. One day I will have my dream kitchen. But if I am stuck and we can’t move forward, what is there to enjoy being stuck in quarantine every day? Here are a few of my favourite pins of beautiful butcher block countertop kitchens:
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