Kitchen Before and After Reveal

Our fixer upper kitchen has been transformed into a totally updated and open place to cook and gather!

Just to remind you what we started with:

I love my new kitchen now!!

I am happy with the choices we made.  

If you would like to see more of the before and during photos - check out my previous post- Our Kitchen Remodel

In that post I mentioned that I was a bit scared on how my choice of the two dark cabinets on either side of the range would look - now it is one of my favorite parts of the kitchen.

One of my other favorite choices was not doing a lazy susan (which loosing half of its contents off the back every time you spin it -was a pet peeve of mine) and doing the three deep drawers in the corner.  They are much bigger than they look and store a plethora of items.

Moving the sink over to the big window that overlooks the lake was the absolute right thing to do.

We chose not to do a farmhouse sink because I like a double bowl sink and this stainless steel sink came free with the counter tops!!  It was just one of the choices we made to save a little somewhere along the road- after all we have the whole house to redo.  (see the rest of the fixer upper here)

  The island we decided upon is a free standing piece of furniture.  We did not want to put pendant lights over it because we can turn it going the opposite direction if we so choose to do.

It actually cost us less to purchase this piece than put in two small cupboards and granite on top plus I think this piece has much more charm!  This island has a stainless steel top, which I love the look of - but I have to say it does scratch very easily.  We hid our microwave inside the island, luckily we thought far enough ahead to include an electrical outlet in the floor.

The other side of this island pulls out for additional seating

The only thing I don't like about it - is that we have a dog that loves tennis balls.  She is forever trying

to fish her tennis balls out from underneath the island!

We have plenty of storage with the three pantry cabinets on the far left.

So here is the final comparison 

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NOTE: THESE ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS FOR THESE PRODUCTS

I AM NOT GETTING PAID NOR AM I RECOMMENDING THESE PRODUCTS

THESE ARE WHAT WE USED- YOU MAY OR MAY NOT LIKE THE DURABILITY OR QUALITY THAT WE CHOSE:

Flooring -Hartville Hardware -  Hardwood - Vallaria Pacific Pecan- Greystone

Cabinets -Home Depot - Thomasville - in Toasted Almond on Cotton

and the dark cabinets are Graphite

Counter tops - Home Depot -Silestone - Iron Bark

Backsplash - Hartville Hardware - Mediterranean's Chicago Brick Tile - South Side

Island - Andreas Furniture - Paula Deen Furniture line - River House - now being discontinued

Multiple Pendant light fixture over table - PotteryBarn- Paxton 8 light Pendant

The table and chairs -had from our old house- had them made at Swiss Valley Furniture

So far so good!  I hope the rest of the house transforms this nicely!

We are currently having some work done on the outside of the house, so stop back to see more updates to our little fixer upper.

Thanks for stopping by,

Ann

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