On-ward and Up-ward...or actually DOWN-ward!

Digging two feet down for an 8' basement has officially started!! We had another slight delay with our neighbor, because she got the flu so her house couldn't be inspected until she was feeling better. What's another week after waiting almost two months, right?!?! I don't have any pictures of it yet, because Mike and I have only stopped by at night. I could barely see what was going on, much less get a decent picture of it. But we are back to thinking about house stuff, which is great!

Next up is that we have a meeting with the contractors a week from Wednesday (Feb 6), after the basement has been dug out, but before they frame it. So we'll walk through with them and figure out the exact layout of the basement. We want to fit in: a decent-sized family room, a full bath, decent-sized bedroom (with its own exterior door), and a laundry/storage room. I hope that we can get the storage room to be large enough to fit all of our crap - suitcases, golf clubs, skis, tools, etc. We've accumulated a lot!

The decision after that is kitchen cabinets! As I've mentioned before, we've spoken with a couple of places about cabinets. We had been set on an off-white cabinet, but with all of this extra time, we may be changing our mind. Mostly because we were inspired by this kitchen that we saw on House Hunters Renovation:

Yes, this is a picture of our TV. We are very sophisticated here at Putting the Can in Canton.

Love the white cabinets, white subway tiles with gray grout, the hood, colored knobs, and splashes of red accent (hard to tell from the picture, but they are there). Mike had been talking about white subway tile backsplash for awhile, but I was never convinced until I saw the tile with the gray grout. I like it a lot better, so I may be convinced now! We would not want glass cabinets though - we would just keep solid white.

Any thoughts?