First Kitchen Remodel

Well, it's finally here!  That promised post revealing our new kitchen!  First off, I am not a photographer, so yeah.  We'll leave it at that, ha ha.  Secondly, here is the post that inspired the kitchen--jennasuedesign.blogspot.com.  I love her house and I loved her kitchen so much that it became the jumping point for us. I am not an incredibly creative person so having a visual of something someone else did was great!  I even found out her paint color and got it matched at ACE. Thirdly, remodeling takes a LONG time.  We started doing major stuff in May and now here we are the end of September!  We aren't officially done done done with the kitchen, but that is okay.  Those other projects will wait till later.  Thankfully they're very patient.

Before:
















Remodel:








That piece of paper taped to the counter saved us a lot with trying to follow the pattern.  It was a tricky one.  We were really pleased with how the floor turned out it being our first ever tile project and all. Thanks Lynn for inspiring us that we can do projects like this!




I mainly take pictures of Lee doing stuff as he is AMAZING and does most of the work.  But I helped out too and even measured and cut several tiles myself!




Lee ripped out the old counters.  I think this actually was one of the hardest projects.
















The tiles came in a sheet like this.  We wanted a subway tile look so Shanna and I cut them into single rows.








Our friend Rick made these great doors for us!  Thank YOU!!! I read a few things online about painting cabinets.  Mine did not turn out perfect, that's for sure, but they do look fine.  I really like what centsationalgirl teaches about painting cabinets, like in this tutorial.


So many little projects in a kitchen....












After:














Here's the official daily job chart.








Love the new light Lee installed!!!










I made this cover for my Bosch.  Sorry, no tutorial, but it did turn out fine.






I LOVE the under cabinet lighting.  It's not recessed of course, but that works fine as we need all the cupboard space we can get.  The kitchen is pretty small. The touch pad on the left is how you turn the lights on and off.  Just touch it.  And you can do three different strengths of light settings.


I made two roman shades. I need to adjust the bottom right corner....  Here is where I got the tutorial for the shades: shanty-2-chic.com


I was going to have the guy that did the extra pieces of cabinetry to cut off the swooping wood trim.  But I completely forgot to ask him.  Maybe some other day.








I am not an accessorizer. I think it looks great when people can do it well, but this is really the first time trying my hand at it.  I definitely need some practice!


I LOVE my garbage drawer.  I knew I wanted one and I knew I would like it and it hasn't disappointed!




























Love how the backsplash turned out!










The floors in some of the pictures might not look like they go with the kitchen super well, but they look great in real life, promise.






There you go!  Hope you enjoyed the pictures!  We are working on the family room right now.  We'll see when that gets done.  Based on our track record, it may take awhile!