Kitchen Update

 

So, I wasn't really blogging much back when we updated our kitchen last summer, but I am now.  Let me catch you all up to speed real quick:

When we bought the house, the kitchen looked like this:

Hello, brown & cream everything...Here's an analogy for you:

Then : cream & brown  ::  Now : white & grey

Seriously, someday, someone will walk though a kitchen and say, "yeck.  why'd they use so much white and grey?"  I like thinking about that stuff, because I really don't get how this could have ever been in.

Anyway.

I wanted to remodel it asap.  You know how it is when you walk through a potential house..."Oh, we'll just change out this, and switch out that..." not realizing the full extent of what you're saying until you're in the thick of it.  Yeah, after living through remodeling 2 bathrooms, moving, and having a baby 10 days later PLUS learning our walls are all lath-and-plaster and not sheet rock (read: sooooo muchhh dusttt), we decided we would get by with some smaller tweaks until our hearts and pockets were ready for the full deal. 

So, this is not our forever kitchen, but likely our 5-10 year kitchen.  Five if you ask me.  Ten if you ask Dave.  And we did things with this time frame in mind.

We painted the kitchen cabinets using Benjamin Moore's Advanced line following in YHL's footsteps in Cloud Cover and Galveston Gray.  

We chose arctic white solid surface counter tops (once again, thank you YHL), because they look modern, yet are pretty reasonably priced.

We put in a simple, but NEW under mount sink, and NEW faucet.

 

 

We added NEW hardware.  A NEW dishwasher.

And a NEW microwave.  One of the cooler things we did was retrofit the cabinet above the stove to make way for the new microwave.  Doing this, there wasn't much space left for an actual cabinet, so we turned it into a little wine rack.  I really love it, because it forces us to keep our house stocked. ;)

So that is where we stand today.  We'd still really like to switch out those fluorescent lighting boxes for some canned lights (or skylights?$?$), and I'd like to change up the other ceiling fixtures as well.  Also on the list are new stainless steel appliances--including adding a gas line for a gas stove!

But, all these upgrades won't mean a thing until we do something about the floors!  So, that's up next: those beautiful, cream and brown, geometric linoleum floors.  Tentatively, flooring demo/install is set for next week...so yeah, I realllly need to pick something out, and pray that what I like is in stock.  Full post on those coming soon!