Drawer Fronts & Strangers Sleeping at the Kitchen Table

Friday evening I went with my sister to see a performance by "Communicators for Christ." The theme was "One Life: Whose Legacy." It was put on by a group of 13 teenagers who are learning to communicate better with those around them. In addition to the evening's performance, they were holding a 4-day conference for area teenagers. I thought it was very well done.

When my sister and I arrived home I went upstairs to greet my Mom. Much to my surprise I saw a stranger sleeping at our kitchen table. She was a Chinese exchange student and it looked like she had fallen asleep while studying. I reported the situation to Mom and she told me that her host family was gone for the weekend and she would be staying with us.

My sister and I woke the young lady up and assured her that she could use her bed for sleeping. She was quite astonished to wake-up and find two 6' tall blond girls standing next to her! We got everything arranged and we all went off to bed.

On Saturday my Dad had to work in the morning, so I began our weekend project without him. Mom had finished varnishing the kitchen cupboard drawer fronts and I began preparing to install them. First I cleared off a large space on the living room floor and laid out all the drawer fronts. I then decided which way they should be turned and which one should go where. Sometimes there were several options; sometimes only two.

Since installing the drawer fronts involves putting an electric screwdriver inside the drawer, I had to empty them out. It was quite interesting to see the contents of all our kitchen drawers spread out on the counters!

Then I marked the fronts of the drawer boxes in thirds and drilled two holes in each. This was followed by attaching two small pieces of double-sided tape to the fronts.

As I finished this job my Dad got home from work...just in time! After lunch and a short break, we began attaching drawer fronts. When we were done it looked very impressive!

And last but not least, I put everything back in the drawers. Of course, there was no way I could pass up this opportunity to organize all the stuff in the drawers! What fun!

I'll try to get pictures of our kitchen cabinets to post sometime...now that we have fronts on them they look very nice.