Renovations

Renovations:

I had a genius idea: we should paint our kitchen cabinets before we moved it.  Both Brent and I hate moving and we knew that we needed some time to make it a semi-smooth transition.  We decided that we would give ourselves 3 weeks to move from our apartment to our house and in that time we would update a few things in the kitchen before we moved in.  Unfortunately during that time, Brent had finals and his during finals week Brent’s grandmother passed away and he was asked to speak at her funeral. Our kitchen remodel took a wee bit more time than we planned, and like all projects they got blown out of proportion. 

It took a while for me to convince Brent that we should paint our cheap crappy looking cabinets white.  Once Brent was on board, he was on board.  Our simple painting project turned into a complete kitchen demo and remodel.  We tore out 3 layers of floor and installed an awesome tile (only after fighting with the staples in the hardwood), took out the cabinets, repainted and basically rebuilt, built  and installed hardwood countertops, painted the ceilings and walls and installed bead board, installed a new sink and many more things along the way.  Here are a few pictures from the before….not bad, but a little paint would do wonders.



Looking into the kitchen from the living room.  Didn't they just do an awesome job of hanging the cabinets?  There were gaps everywhere...a huge pet peeve of Brent's

Check out the awesome pink backsplash, with blue diamonds.  Unfortunately Brent was not a fan and he happily tore that off the walls.

The kitchen is so small it is hard to take any pictures.  This is a view from the back door. (To the left of the stove was where the first two picture were taken).

From the dining room looking into the kitchen.  Not a bad kitchen at all, we just wanted to spruce it up a bit.

Our kitchen is so small I was not able to back up far enough to get the whole thing in the picture!

This is our dining room.  I would like to point out the awesome archway between the kitchen and dining area, but unfortunately the refrigerator takes up way too much room.  I wonder what appliances they had back in 1930 when they built the house, because they do not fit in this space very well. SPOILER ALERT: We fixed that problem :)

And yes, the water does work.
 



Here is a teaser/motivation for me to post the after pictures.  We did plan the new cabinet height around my kitchen aid that is taller than the typical counter to cabinet height, but we did not plan the colors to be so coordinated.

After pictures to come shortly!