BARE WALLS

Seeing the cupboards removed from the kitchen was really weird! They had been there since the '60s, so it was like they had a life of their own.

Now you see them:

Now you don't:

 

I thought I'd be so happy to see the cupboards gone, but the opposite happened: their absence hit me hard. I thought about all the people who'd lived in the house since 1951, what they would have done in the kitchen. Housewives cooking for their families, college-student renters drinking beer, so many different people before us. 

Thankfully my husband managed to get the cupboards re-hung in our little garden shed, so all was not lost! They're good hardwood cupboards, so I'm glad they got saved and re-used.