Kitchen Before and Afters!

I am trying to do some great before and after photos of our kitchen. It is 98% finished. The last final touch would be a turquoise KitchenAid mixer! Here are some photos so I hope you enjoy.

We are trying to figure out still what to do with our cordless phone on the wall and will eventually upgrade our fridge and dishwasher... when it breaks of course!

It took a lot of work to clean, sand, clean, prime, paint all the interior and exteriors (shelves included) of all the cabinets. That is why this project has taken probably 10 months with 4 kids! This is my one and only pantry and it works great. I am not one to keep a lot of food on hand for storage or stockpiling. Here is the after shot! We took down the bannister at the top of the cabinets, added the chalkboard, and spray painted all of the knobs and hinges. The tables and barstools have been great for the kids and when I cook or bake a lot, I make them into an island in the middle of the kitchen.

Before: After!! The walls are painted grey, we added a bamboo shade, got a new oven and hood and my favorite addition was my new rag rug that I had custom made! It is made from tie dyed tee shirts.

This is a photo I found of the close up of our cabinets before and how awful our oven was... so we treated ourselves to a new oven after I got paid for doing some freelance marketing for my brother's company.

The new oven and hood looks great, doesn't it? I am not as bothered by the countertops as I was initially. I had to get rid of the wood cabinets. Way too much WOOD!

This is another before shot and you can see how we had this "table structure" sticking out from our wall. I thought I would like it but love that it is gone. This is another shot of our chalkboard. It is our organizing tool for everyone in our family. Some certain people in my little family love their meals and he needs to know what is for dinner everynight ahead of time!!

Another shot of the crazy table we took out!

This is what we did in place of the table. I really wanted my depression glass to be on display and this was the best I could do for displaying it. I also framed my favorite pastel drawing that Grace made this year of a rooster.




Hope you like it! I have been waiting to post this until I got the rag rug. When I get the new mixer (someday) I will post that too. Tomorrow I will try to post my new dining room table!!