New Kitchen - 6 months in

It is about time I posted actual pictures of the new kitchen. So here they are. I tried my best to get the same angle as this post, from before any demo. Hopefully you can pull both blogs up and compare.

Still just as tiny, but it doesn't feel like it anymore.

With the less-dark family room and white washed fireplace.

This hallway is gone! There are now cabinets and a penninsula. The pantry doors are in the place of the wall, and the pantry is pushed into the bathroom, making that room smaller. (Which I love since it was a waste-of-space weird shape anyway.)

Which means looking into the kitchen is different. I am standing in the corner of the dining room, instead of near the middle. We weren't sure about moving the doorway into the corner of the dining room, but it works just fine. We actually both like it more like this. The mudroom is open and there is a great flow from the dining room into the kitchen for parties. You can also see the double oven in the picture. So yes, we have three ovens. (The large one and this double one.) We need the large one for holidays (hubby is already talking about Thanksgiving and Christmas.) but we use the small one at least 4 times a week. Usually more. You can also see a bit of the grey tile we put in here. Nearly everything was replaced with wood, except the mudroom/laundry and the bathroom.

Looking at the garage door is more open! There are not laundry machines on one side and a wall on the other! When we painted I wasn't sure whether to paint this doorway the blue or the grey, so I left it primed. By the end of summer it will be grey. (I have a lot of areas to touch up anyway.)

Dining room.

Dining room with the door moved. Those pictures need to be hanged.

Looking in from the garage door into the laundry room. This is the room that changed the most during construction. At some point, we will have barn doors hanging here. You can't see it well, but there are shelves on the right. This is space we didn't have in the old laundry room! You can see the broom hanging out a bit on the right. All mops and brooms hang on the end of the shelf. Again, in the old laundry room they were just stuck between the wall and the dryer, constantly falling out and jamming the door.

Front door. It looks neater with the bare coat rack. The cabinet for back packs and kid coats has been moved upstairs, where it needs to move. But I doubt it will return to this area. We love the new darker wood. At some point all these walls (hallway, family room, living room, etc.) will be painted the light grey of the mud room.

From the kitchen. I think it will look better with grey walls.

 

The new bathroom. It is smaller. (Again the new pantry pushed the wall on the right into the bathroom.) Kevin picked out this room. This is the only room with this tile and this color. And thankfully the kids have all outgrown the need for stools.

I am so glad there are not three different types of floor here. We moved the carpet back to extend the wood to the basement door. The floor trim is currently being painted in the basement. The dry bar has the dark grey of the kitchen on the outside, and the same light grey from the mud room (and soon-to-be hallway and family room).

We are currently waiting for it to stop raining, so the pool and ladder are waiting in this room. And we are also sorting through books to pass to cousin Kieran (who just moved from Australia!!!) and to donate. Normally this room is pretty empty. But since it is also so dark, our plan is to put in a window on the wall to the left in this picture.

You can't see a toilet! And that strange step-up into the kitchen is gone! The side of the dry bar that you see from here is just primer. We weren't sure if we should paint it the dark grey or light grey, so left it unpainted. I love how bright the kitchen looks from here.

The wood floor goes in all the rooms in the front. There are two breaks in the floor, which are at the entry to the living room and the dining room. You can see that in the floor in this picture.

The wall in the back is the one that will have a new window one day. We haven't even talked about what we are going to do to the stairs yet. We have plenty of projects ahead of those.

I know this picture is much darker, but I have already taken the photos off the camera and started blogging. But you can still see the floor goes all the way through, and we have rearranged a few pictures. Right now we are working on getting curtains and wall decorations up.

Kevin favorite things about the remodel:

• six burner stove
• giant counter top space
• the new hood is awesome and very quiet (we once left it on for a day or two)
• big sink 
• undercabinet lighting
• mini oven (double oven)

My favorite things:

• the counterspace
• there is more room between the cabinets so we can walk around easier
• walking in from the garage to the kitchen is SO EASY
• the new faucet
• undercabinet lighting
• the new wood floor is so much nicer than the old crappy wood, and there is no step up into the kitchen
• six burner stove

We love this sink. And it is deep enough that I can leave the soap bottle in the sink (or dishes) and you can't see them unless you are at the sink.