In case you missed the first two parts: KITCHEN RENO PART I | PART II

The main work of the remodel was all com­pleted in the month of Feb­ru­ary. It took less than four weeks, but the house was cov­ered in saw­dust, the walls were open, floors, cab­i­nets and coun­ters were ripped out — and we were liv­ing in it all the while. Since I’m writ­ing this after the fact I have basi­cally all good mem­o­ries and don’t remem­ber how bad it really was. I was here with the work­ers all day and was expected to be project man­ager, except when I would say things like “let’s just tile that whole wall”, our con­trac­tor would call Steven to tell on me and get his per­mis­sion… where is my authority!

Here is our kitchen after all that, we still need to get porce­lain out­let cov­ers but that’s prob­lem­atic because we’ll have to change out the out­let styles so they fit in the cov­ers. After post­ing the pho­tos I’ve real­ized I need to work on my inte­rior styling, next time I’ll put out a cut­ting board with some plums on it or some­thing, you know real life stuff. Any­way… what do you think of the changes? It’s hard to even remem­ber this place as a white closed-in kitchen.

Here’s the view from the pantry. We replaced the white ceramic tile floor for vin­tage wood from the 1960s we got for a steal at the Habi­tat for Human­ity restore. It matches the wood in the rest of our house iden­ti­cally. We kept the cab­i­nets and painted them with a glossy black, which was also used on the new trim and arch­way moulding.

We tiled the entire wall on the back side of the house because I didn’t like the way it was going to look if we just ended the tile at the left edge of the stove, I love how it turned out.

On the wall with most of our cab­i­net space, we removed the doors so now it’s a lot eas­ier to get to things, in a small space I like hav­ing things within reach.

We used Restora­tion Hardware’s 8″ and 13″ Duluth bin pulls on the draw­ers and upper cab­i­nets and the 8″ Aubrey pulls in Antique Brass on the lower cabinets.

I found a vin­tage brass and crys­tal cur­tain tie back to use as a towel hanger while shop­ping with my mom, sis­ter and aunt Sue down in his­toric Rosen­berg after the ren­o­va­tion was done.

We replaced the white porce­lain sink with a singe-basin square edged stain­less sink… it’s finally easy to watch our huge pots and pans!