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Kitchen Renovation; Nearly There!
With the exterior of the Young Victorian completely transformed with a new roof and new siding, we were feeling pretty good about the progress of the overall renovation project and were now ready to finish the kitchen renovation. So let’s get the kitchen buttoned up, shall we? We’ve talked about the major decisions about the general design, our decisions regarding the flooring, cabinets, countertops, and our huge kitchen island. What’s Left? At this point, we’ve got a few more things to finish up in this kitchen renovation. The remaining countertops, getting the antique sink installed, cladding the range hood and backsplash are all on the agenda. We get these things…
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Our Own Island (Kitchen Island That Is)!
So once the cabinets had been installed in our Young Victorian, it was time to finish the kitchen island. This was a huge step in the kitchen renovation as there had been no island previously. We had a large open space and a desperate need for more storage given our decision to forego upper cabinets. You can read a previous post on the decisions surrounding the island and cabinets here, if you’d like to catch up! Big Space Needs A Big Island The original owners of the house had utilized an antique retail counter as their island. The piece, however, had been sold during an estate sale prior to the…
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Kitchen Cabinets; Finally!
Kitchen cabinets are pretty necessary. And when you’ve gone without them for 6 months, you really appreciate it when you are finally able to install them into what will be your brand new kitchen (some day)! In a previous post, I shared our experience with picking out the cabinets. You can click here to read that post. We had decided to go with IKEA cabinets given their cost and the flexibility to create a configuration that would work with our specific kitchen space. Mixing It Up We also decided to go with two different types of cabinets. Remember that we do not have any upper cabinets because of the configuration…
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Kitchen Cabinets: An Open and Shut Case
We Need Cabinets on the Cheap! Hey, it’s all about the kitchen cabinets today! So I’ve mentioned budget constraints before since we had so many renovation projects to complete. And those constraints definitely applied to the kitchen cabinets. While we had custom cabinets already in the kitchen, they looked crazy! Best we can tell, the choice to incorporate the reproduction stove and antique farmhouse sink was made AFTER the cabinets were ordered. Hence none of the upper or lower cabinets lined up with anything because both the stove and sink are asymmetrical. I thought I could live with it but I quickly discovered that I.could.not! To accommodate the only window…
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The Tale of One Ugly Kitchen!
Everything’s Got to Go! During the early weeks and months of our Young Victorian renovation, we had decided that everything needed to go in the kitchen! So we went ahead and began the kitchen demo project while we were waiting for our hardwood flooring to acclimate. Here’s what the kitchen space looked like when we purchased the house: We had also decided that we would need to get rid of the kitchen floor tile. While we had first wanted to try and keep it, we did come to the conclusion that there were just too many broken tiles and an impossible-to-work-with grout color to keep it. You can…
