Kitchen Remodel

Kitchen Remodel

How many times have people reminded me to take before pictures?! Well this is one of those rooms that has evolved over 4 years. We've done most the work in the past 6 months, but I tried to find a few pictures that would give you an idea of what the kitchen used to look like before I add in the after pictures. 

In this picture, please notice that originally, pink was painted between all of the cupboards. There was nice gold hardware too :) The pink cupboard areas actually matched the pink walls, well, at least the walls that weren't covered with bright yellow tile. All of it did match the yellow, pink, and purple flower basket border along the ceiling though....so no worries.

Picture below are the yellow doors that you passed as you entered the kitchen. You can see that nice fruit and flower basket boarder here.

This picture was taken after my sister, and I sledge hammered the pantry out to build a built-in table eating area. You can see what I used the pantry doors for HERE.

The stair spindles were between the kitchen and the stairway. This later became a wall/seat for the built-in eating area. This picture also shows the pink walls. 

oh ya, looks like I'm alot of help here! In this pic you can see the vinyl flooring  and even a small shot of the florecent lights.

Door before...and more pink walls.

Close up of that nice yellow tile!

OK, so there are the before pics. Now for the afters!

- Afters -

Open shelving. I've had this for about 1.5 yrs now....I highly recommend it. It really helps messy people like me, stay organized!

These are backed with chalkboard paint.

For how to's see: Open, Chalkboard Backed Cabinets

We also added pull-out drawers in these big, old cupboards.

If you'ld like a tutorial see here: DIY Pull-Out Drawers Tutorial  (never mind the missing baseboard, we were mid-kitchen reno).

 Built-in eating area
 The original pantry and stair spindles were replaced by the built-in eating area. We eat at this about 6 times/day, so I'm really glad I added it!

Remember the door before? Now there's chalkboard on the bottom. It's usually called the "chore door", and I write the kid's to-do lists on it.

For more info:  kitchen door project

Not exactly perfect, but good enough to call it done!

-- Katie

This post was edited on 4/27/2012 

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