My hubby and I started this kitchen renovation when kid #2 was about 6 months old. We "finished" it about 12 months later, right before kid #3 was born. I had been building my dream kitchen, but the dream didn't last long because we sold that house and moved into our current one, which had the room we needed for 5 people, but nowhere near as great of a kitchen. The other bummer is that I have lost most of the pictures from this project. I now swear by Carbonite, but I wish I new about it back then. Maybe I will stalk my family to see what they have. It's a beautiful transformation I tell you!
Oh how I miss that kitchen! We can't afford to do the one in our new house right now, but renovating the kitchen in our old house is what made it sell so fast (10 days on the MLS in 2009)!
Before - kitchen entry:
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| Isn't that floor terrible??!! The wallpaper was worse! We sold that white refrigerator on craigslist for about $300. |
During:
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| Putting in the archways was actually pretty easy. |
After - kitchen entryway:
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| I love the island that I built out of the old cabinets. If I still lived there I would have put bead board on the sides by now. It's too plain. |
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| View from the other direction. Yes I installed the floor all by myself while my children slept. I did a heck of a lot better than whatever moron put the hardwood floors down in my current house. Ugh! |
Before:
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| The dishwasher was the only thing that stayed in this picture, and in the same place even. (I had replaced the dishwasher and oven when I first moved in) |
After:
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| I always planned on putting in a back splash, but we sold the house before I had the chance. |
Before - dining room looking into kitchen:
After - dining room looking into kitchen:
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| Well the windows and blinds stayed the same, but not much else :) |
Before - kitchen looking into dining room:
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| Keep your eye on the dishwasher, it stays in the same place. But the wall is gone! |
After - kitchen looking into dining room:
Before - dining room entrance way/ refrigerator wall:
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| Notice the missing wall. This is the only evidence of our work in progress. I like to tape everything out on the floor ie. the placement of the cabinets and walls. |
After - dining room entrance way:
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| Sorry I don't have any pictures from the same angle as above. We ended up narrowing that entrance way (and of course giving it an arch) |
After - refrigerator wall:
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| Love that we got the counter-depth fridge at Sears Scratch & Dent store. I just had to have my vintage-look phone! That trash can was what we used for recycling, but it was not a permanent solution. |
Before - dining room:
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| Do you like the chairs I reupholstered? They were bought at Salvation Army and sold on Craigslist. |
After - dining room:
My daughters helping with our renovation: (I was
pregnant with my son during the half of this long project)
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| Love the seamless floor transition! You can also see the nicely repositioned heating vent in the middle of the floor. This won't look weird with the island. |
Our renovation included: *We did everything ourselves except for some electrical work*
- Removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room
- Extending wall that now has refrigerator
- Removing the soffit from two walls
- Installing matching hardwood floor with NO t-joints or transitions
- Installing bead board ceiling (mainly because I wanted to hide the patchwork from where we took down the wall)
- Installing arches in the doorways and removing all the existing trim around doors
- Drywall/tape/spackle/paint
- Relocating electrical and installing recessed lighting (had an electrician do, but ended up moving the recessed lights afterwards myself)
- Designing the new layout (we ordered Kraftmaid Cabinets from Home Depot)
- Installing the cabinets (hubby helped with only with the cabinet above the fridge)
- Installing crown molding and floor molding
- Building the island using the old cabinets, painted with color match paint
- Installing black granite sink, instant hot water heater, garbage disposal, faucet (hubby did all that)
- Modifying and installing the black counter top in the dining area
- Re-routing 2 heating vents (one now comes up through the floor near the island, the other comes out through the toe kick of a cabinet)
- Venting range hood up through the roof, which had previously been in the soffit, venting out the exterior wall (all hubby)
- Installing a new window and trim (old window was crank out, I was not a fan)
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