Kitchen And Taxes Almost Done

We just about finished our kitchen this past weekend.   It’s very exciting to see it all come together and have it look just like we planned.   We still have some trim/paint/touching up to do, but we should be finished this week.   Then we need to get cracking on replacing the carpet in our upstairs.   We’re going to be making our second living room into a dining room, but we have to move the couch out of the living room and into the baby’s room first.   But we don’t want to move the couch upstairs until the new floor is in.   So for now we have our dining room table in the middle of our living room, which is a bit cramped.   It’s good motivation to get us going asap on the floors…

We gave my parents and sister gift certificates to Home Depot as a thanks for all their hard work on our kitchen.   (They put in three full weekends of work, so they deserved a lot more than we gave them).   It looks like we finished the whole kitchen for just about $3000, which is less than some people pay to replace their oven.   So we’re feeling pretty good about the whole thing.   Since we plan to be in this house for the long term, we might as well have a large, useful kitchen – and it helps that it’s really beautiful too.   But we couldn’t justify spending $20,000 on a kitchen remodel, so we’re very happy with frugal compromises we made.  

I had an appointment with our accountant today, and I think I have all of my tax questions answered.   So I should be able to file everything for the corporation this week.   I’ll figure out exactly how much I need to contribute to my IRA for last year in order to get our Savers Credit, and then I’ll e-file our personal return.   It will be so great to put another year’s taxes to rest.   I’m looking forward to just sitting down and watching a movie on a Friday night, instead of spending my evenings pouring over tax websites!