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A green kitchen renovation!

Finally......The kitchen is complete except for a couple of finishing touches!

Isn't this the sweetest little door? Before the door was just a piece of plywood. We found this one at Ferris Wheel Antiques...all it needed was shortened, and a little primer and paint. It even came with the hinges and doorknob! It looks as though it has always been there........

Looking towards the kitchen from the powder room. This is where the built in china cabinet used to be.

A tray of oils.........

Love the new tile and granite!

The hardwood floors are reclaimed maple with mahogany stain from an old gymnasium

The cabinets are 42" tall with seeded glass............

Looking down the hall............

A little stool for seating...........

The legs on the front of the sink were a steal at $4.99 a piece on clearance at Lowes!

The refrigerator slides out to access the utility room where the new geo thermal heating/cooling unit is housed.

A little sparkly! There are two chandeliers in the kitchen...........

The cabinets on the right side are all added...there were no cabinets here before the renovation.

More white ironstone of course!

The chalkboard covers the electrical box...........

I can't even begin to tell you how excited we are for the kitchen renovations to finally be done!!!!

The Details:

The cabinets are used...we bought them from a couple who was remodeling their kitchen. They are 42" tall custom oak cabinets. Each cabinet and door was sanded down to bare wood,primered,and painted! Mr. D spent hours trying to figure out how to arrange them to work in our kitchen and had to rebuild some of the cabinets in order to make them work. The cabinets with glass doors had dated leaded inserts which were removed and seeded glass was added along with glass shelves. Feet were added to the bottom of the cabinets along with beadboard on the sides,and corbels for a more custom look. The paint on the walls is Antique White by Valspar and the granite is Venetian Gold.

I'm back!

This picture kinda makes me laugh....we eventually tore out the whole wall!

This is where the new heating/cooling unit is housed.

We poured a new foundation footing for the back wall.

Here you can see the old built in china cabinet has been removed....it didn't take much effort!

Gosh it feels like years since I last posted....has it really been so long!?!?!? What started out to be a kitchen renovation eventually turned into much,much more. Of course if you own an old house you know how that goes....one thing always leads to another....... and another!

I thought I would start with a few pics of the kitchen renovation in stage 1. We installed a geo thermal heating/cooling system and since we don't have a basement it meant ripping up the kitchen floor to run all the new lines. We figured since we had to rip the floor up we might as well install new hardwood floors to match the rest of the house right? Well that led to new cabinets,counter top, plumbing, a concrete foundation footing,and a ton of other things and details that I won't bore you with! Big reveal to follow....so check back tomorrow!

A new treasure!

I picked this cute little table up over the weekend....it was a Craig's List find! It isn't my best bargain from Craig's List at $75 but it fits the space perfectly! Originally I made a beautiful gathered round table cloth for a table that fit the space and looked totally fabulous. Unfortunately it didn't fit our family perfectly. You see my cute little fur babies thought it was necessary to trample on the bottom of the table cloth every time they went out the door to go potty. *sigh* Then of course there was the other issue......Teddy decided it was the perfect napping spot. So, every day he would pull the table cloth out enough to lay on which caused it to be waaaay longer in the front. I finally convinced him it wasn't for napping so instead he decided to go underneath the table cloth and table and use it as his own little private space. After a few days I gave up and put the table and cloth away. Finding a table that wasn't taller than the wing chair was quite a challenge too. Who knew tables could be so tall? I think the original function of the little table was to serve as a nightstand. It has a little drawer on the side that pulls out which is so totally clever not to mention handy!!!! So, what do you think....perfect for the spot of too cute?

Amongst the chaos......

I bought this little shiny table a couple of weeks ago as a little "me" gift for reaching a goal I have been striving for myself the last few months. I realize it probably isn't everyone's taste but gosh, how I sure love the sparkle!!! I decided to cut some flowers for the little vase...............

An update

I was going to post a few pics of the kitchen renovation progress so far but......it looks like we haven't really made any! LOL...In fact I decided to hold off because it looks so bad right now it would probably scare the average person half to death and convince them to never ever buy an old house! Hopefully I will have something to share very soon though! Hope you all had a fabulous holiday.....................

Pure craziness............

The beginning.....All the slipcovers were taken off the furniture and the rugs were shrink wrapped to keep from getting ruined.

Then the kitchen was packed up and temporarily moved into the dining room. The dining room furniture was moved to an upstairs bedroom.

The refrigerator and two pantry cabinets along with the upper cabinets have been removed to expose the utility room. This is where the new heating and cooling system will go.

Progress on stove side of kitchen...

We have decided to update the heating and cooling system in our house. This will require that part of the kitchen floor be removed for access to run pipes and etc. To say the kitchen floor in our kitchen was ugly is truly and understatement!!!! It was a faux white marble floating floor that had glue stains from where the glue oozed out of the seams when it was poorly installed. It was extremely unlevel and impossible to keep clean! Underneath the floating floor was a layer of floor leveler. Underneath the layer of floor leveler is an old linoleum floor. Underneath the old linoleum floor is an old tile floor!!! So far we have the old floating floor taken up....next we will tackle the floor leveler issue working one layer at a time. Eventually new cabinets and granite counter tops will be installed and reclaimed maple flooring will be laid to match the rest of the first floor. Should be interesting....I'll keep ya updated!