- Guess what?
(box dropping) I'm moving.
(laughs) Oh yeah the kids are napping.
I'm so glad they're sound sleepers.
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Boys slept almost all the way to Connecticut,
we took a red eye, here we are.
This is the new kitchen, it is not finished yet.
And a ton has been happening behind the scenes
that I really wanted to share with you.
So I banked a ton of content.
So you're gonna keep seeing some of my Preppy Kitchen videos
from the old finished kitchen that was not all raw wood.
And in the mean time we're going to be building this out.
So let's talk about it.
We're gonna take a quick tour of the new space,
the new place and the town.
Let's get started.
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I thought it would be fun to go on a quick spin
out of the house.
Go to town and just see like, you know what's around.
If you been following Preppy Kitchen on Instagram,
which I encourage you to,
you've noticed that we've taken lots of trips.
We've come out for all the seasons and we love it.
The kids love it, my husband loves it, anyways.
This is a very quiet neck of the woods.
There's not a lot of like traffic, noise, stop signs.
Right now we're about to enter the historic part of town.
Every town has a green at the center.
And around that are like shops and sometimes there's
like the City Hall or Town Hall, there's not a city.
And the library.
This one is one of the more vibrant greens.
It has a bunch of stores.
There's like a nice clothing store
where I bought a hat recently. (laughs)
Let's head back to the house and see what's going on.
(upbeat music)
You know how house hunters have people
always are going on and on about open concept?
Well that was me in the past.
I was like oh open this, open that.
All of it changes because your kitchen's
full of hot and pointy things and toddlers don't understand:
not right now, that's dangerous.
So in this kitchen I'm actually looking out
into like a big bank of what will be glass.
And it has a beautiful view of the rolling hills
and the countryside.
It is super pretty, I'll show you that in just a moment.
Right here, big island just like before only bigger.
I'll be sliding bowls left and right.
In the center though I have a sink for washing vegetables,
hands, et cetera, et cetera.
And over there is my Cinderella sink.
The dishes pile up like you wouldn't believe.
Cause we all have swap outs for clean bowls and things.
That's the sink where I'll be washing up afterwards.
Stepsisters dictating various things to me.
Here is the sink that you'll be seeing.
And then to the left we have some burners and range
or like a full range with an oven.
That way I can like cook to camera
and not have to turn around.
So much easier and I'm very excited.
The centerpiece right (laughs)
Daintily stepping over here. (laughs)
The centerpiece over here is my stove.
The stove will have two big fridges on either side.
I'll finally have space for all the swap outs.
Over here we're gonna have a big kinda wall pantry space
for all the ingredients, extra dishes, et cetera, et cetera.
And then in the corner I'm still trying to decide
if we should have another big picture window
to let more light in,
it's a nice eastern exposure over there.
No, no, no, no, no, that's east, that's east.
I'm still getting my bearings.
And then this would be south.
Nice southern light.
(guitar music)
Wanna see what's outside of the kitchen?
It's this! (laughs)
Rolling hills, silos in the distance,
some like open fields, lots of trees.
The seasons change (laughs)
Starts raining. (laughs)
By the way, the weather on the east coast is really real.
Like I lived in New York for a while
but I'm not used to intermittent thunderstorms.
So since I stepped out of the kitchen
it like rained (laughs)
really hard and now it's like kind of blue skies again
with just like occasional big drops
from this tree I'm shaded in.
I use to be in a small little area in a big city.
People actually commented like
"Why is John using like things out of a container
instead of having a fresh herb you know moment"?
It was because I didn't have the space.
But now I have the space.
I think I can have like an herb garden over there,
a vegetable garden like on the other side of the house.
And I'm so excited to have like fresh produce
that I grow myself.
And like choose seeds in the works and share that with you.
(bouncy music)
And we're back where we started.
I'll be giving you lots of updates on what's happening.
Hopefully this will get like sheet rocked.
And you know we'll have cabinetry in the works and
very soon because I need to get back into the kitchen
and make some new recipes.
But in the meantime I might have some new friends.
I will be introducing them very soon so stay tuned.
All right thanks so much for watching.
And I'll see you in the next video.