Long over due

The kitchen has actually been done for about 2 months now and I'm just now writing a post about it! I can't believe time gets away so fast! Here is a before picture. I don't have any pics of the actual original kitchen because I was so totally embarassed of it. The original had mustard yellow counter tops (classy).

If you have been following the process in my blog, you know how much I hated those checkered floors and how much we had to go through to get them up! It's so strange to look at it now and then look at this old pic. It's like its not even the same house!

Here are the after pictures (yay!)

Counter top shot, and what's that in the corner? A sink?? I've never been so thankful for a kitchen sink after going over 3 months without one.

After I put the curtains up.

I'm still deciding what to do with that empty space above the oven. I originally wanted to put a small pot rack for utensils and things.

The island was made by old barn wood we found in our barn in the backyard. So its a real reclaimed wood table!

I'm so happy its finally done and I think I'm done with construction on the house for a while. It can get pretty stressful, but it was totally worth it.

Thanks for looking. <3

Bianca Carrara

After weeks of searching, we bought our countertop today! I wanted to be sure about this purchase because its probably the biggest one we will make with our entire kitchen project as a whole. We saved a lot on the other things so we were going to splurge on the countertops. We really liked the quartz and granite styles, but I really was set on a white countertop, so we decided on quartz because it offered more white options.

Here is a picture of what it will look like, its called Bianca Carrara which is a Zodiaq brand quartz countertop. (I really want that sink too!)

I really liked how the speckled gray will go well with the gray tiled floor. yay!

We are currently working on the lighting and wiring, which is mostly done. I'm going to be putting an island int he middle with a chandelier overtop. Everyone I explain this to gives me a puzzled look, but I swear it will look right! Example:

BEAUTIFUL! I'm thinking of transfering our dining room light to the kitchen for this look and then getting a new dining room light.

Perfection. Although then the next problem is the dining room light.. ohhh welll.. guess that means I need to buy something else for it ;) Projects!

Will post more progress soon!

Alison

Long time no see

Well it has been almost a month since I made a post. We are in the middle of the kitchen project, which hopefully will be coming to an end before Thanksgiving (that's pushing it a little) but definitely before Christmas!

We figured out how to do this kitchen on a budget... like, major budget.

First, we had to figure out the kitchen layout, which involved moving the fridge and the stove around.

New stove location (featuring my new DOUBLE OVEN).

I will be adding open shelving to this wall over the oven as well, kind of like this (My kitchen will be all white too! Love Love Love)

New fridge location.

These changes made for a lot of extra space in the room. You can kind of see the begining of the custom crown molding going on top of the cabinets woo!

The next task was deciding what to do with our old, pretty much useless cabinets. We didn't want to go the brand new custom cabinets route because its pretty pricey (like, 10,000 pricey). We had considered just doing new cabinet doors for an update, but then the brilliant idea came to us: Buy unfinished stock cabinets at Home Depot, add a bunch of custom wood work to them, paint them an awesome color, and yay! Brand new cabinets for about $900. Pretty ridiculous right?

Here are some pretty awesome pictures I have been collecting on my pintrest.

Love those taupe metallic lights and the open shelving that matches. Beautiful!

I love this for a stairway wall, or an entry way like this one if its big enough (mines not).

I love these patterns and colors.

I'll be posting more pics and progress on the kitchen soon I hope! :) :)

Kitchen

When we bought the house we did it with the intention of completely gutting the kitchen. We're waiting to do this last so we can have time to save but I just had to post this picture of what we did yesterday. The kitchen is, well, pretty ugly. It has old cabinets, an old checkered floor, and the counter tops were yellow. Yesterday I couldn't take it anymore and thought I would do some minor changes to make it look a little updated until we could afford to do the whole thing.
I bought some counter top paint (which I didn't even know existed) and painted the counter tops gray instead of yellow and it really does look a lot better! I wish I had some before pics but I don't. Here's what it looked like after.

Looks like new! I'm going to get some new knobs for the doors too. Can't wait until I get my dream kitchen. Someday it will look like this:

Or this:

Or this:

And I love this one too:

I'm off work today but I'm also not feeling too well. Hopefully I'm better by tomorrow. Its hard to be sick and then have to take care of other sick people.
Thanks for looking!