A Kitchen Reborn

Huzzah! After many months (ok, two months) and lots of stress and cash we now have a new kitchen/pantry in ye olde homestead! The final inspection is today and there are just a couple of very minor things to wrap up but I'm going ahead and calling the project complete! There, I just did it. Eggs all in one basket. Chickens all counted way before they have hatched. Cart squarely before the horse. Let's plow ahead shall we?

Behold a whole slew of before, during, and after pictures of the project. Click on the pics for larger versions:

The pantry window with the old sink and dark cabinets.

The new pantry window with new sink, countertops and cabinets.

View of the right-hand cabinets and the old sink unit thing.

Same area during the renovation.

Same view after with new countertop, cabinets and lighting. Mmmmm...coffee.

The nasty old metal sink and cabinet unit.
Heh..."unit".






Zoinks! The whole she-bang is gone!







Same area with the new cabinet base installed and the space for the dishwasher on the left.








Blammo! New counters, sink and dishwasher. Check out the tile work yo.

 A pic of the pantry entryway with the old pine bookcase that housed all (or most) of the Wiff's cookbooks.

 

 Same shot as it looks now.

An overview shot of the pantry and the mudroom (on the right). This is after we removed everything from the kitchen and put it all in the dining room the day before the project started.















Same shot after the job is done.









The stove area before the project started. You can see that I'd already started pulling down the shitty wallpaper by this stage.

In progress...

Looking better...


















And done! Whew! That sure was expensive.

I'm so glad this is done and that it looks as good as it does. I wish we had had the entire kitchen floor refinished during the project but alas we did not. Ah well, another thing to add to the list. We'll get to it eventually.