{RENOVATION PROGRESS}

Well, the long awaited before/after pictures of our (almost completed) kitchen. I'd say it's 95% finished and totally functional. We have some aesthetic things to complete in the next month or so. Cleve has gotten really busy at work so it's slowing down the completion of the kitchen. I can't complain because overall it looks beautiful, definitely my dream kitchen!! Here are a few things we'll be doing to wrap it up: painting trim and touching up walls, adding white marble subway tile back splash, finishing hardware installation, fixing the floor transition between living room and kitchen, hanging pretty mercury glass pendant lights over the island, and putting stone on the exterior addition. Hopefully I'll remember to post fully completed kitchen pics, but for now these should give you a good idea of how far we've come.

INSIDE KITCHEN:

We knocked out the outside wall and extended the kitchen about 5 ft. Also, we put in smaller windows so we could move the sink from the interior wall to this exterior wall (that way I can watch the kids playing in the backyard while at the sink). We no longer have an eating nook, but added an island with stools. We can either eat there or at our large farm table in the dining room.

This is what it looked like when we moved in 5 years ago

This is the very beginning of the renovation (3 months ago)

 

Almost done. I LOVE my cabinets and my big farm sink... really everything is amazing!

VIEW FROM LIVING ROOM:
 

Old Kitchen: Avocado Stove, gold fleck Formica counters, stained laminate floor... and Indian head hardware (that's right!)

Old wall (now gone) separating living room and kitchen

Wall is down!!

Drywall up and floors being installed

AHHHH! Beautiful new kitchen

New view from living room

THE OUTSIDE

Before renovation

  

 

Outside ready for stone... there are windows (I guess I took this picture before they were in)