We used to have a lovely kitchen, when we lived in the old house. Dark cherry stained tall cabinets, granite countertops, hardwood floors. Ahh. It was beautiful. But it wasn't functional. I didn't feel like the space was laid out very well, but it was very pretty to look at! Now, this new kitchen is ugly. Butt ugly. However, it functions muuuuch better. There's a cohesive workspace, there's a better flow, there's so much natural light. I love it. I love our new kitchen, and I love our new house. But it's old and outdated and needs tons of love (and money.. mostly money) to make it beautiful. Now, I have a little plan working on how I'd like to tackle making our kitchen beautiful and I wanted to share it with you!
Let's take a tour..
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| Looking into the kitchen from the formal dining room, that we use as a sort of home office. Notice the barf-worthy linoleum floors, and the orange-y oak cabinets. My cat can actually blend into the cabinets they're so orange. |
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| Here is the stove area, opposite the sink. I had just made some rolls when I took this picture, ignore the food! |
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| Beautiful kitchen window, which I have always wanted. Short, stubby orange cabinets :/ I'm going with a pumpkin and teapots theme, can you tell? Actually I want to just do teapots and stuff, but I had to put my pumpkin somewhere. |
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| Looking at the kitchen from the breakfast area. More ugly orange-y cabinets. And can you see the TERRIBLE floors??? See how they aren't even covering some of the subfloor and it's rippling?? Ugh. |
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Well, that is how the kitchen looks right now. Orange. And horrible floors. And AWFUL counters. Yeah, I haven't even gotten into the countertops. They're stained, and by the sink they are separating and leaking.. It's a dang mess.
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| Better view of peeling back linoleum floor. Yuck! And it's so stained that I could soak it in bleach for HOURS and it still looks dingy. |
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| Leaky area of the countertop. Can you see that gungy mess? I have to clean that up every time I wash dishes. It just seeps pond scum looking stuff :( Ew. |
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So, I have a grand vision! Which starts off with dropping a ton of money unfortunately :( But, first things first I NEED to replace those floors! I want tile. Tile please tile. We had hardwoods in the last house and I really think, at least for me, they're a bad idea in the kitchen. I'm not very good at maintaining high maintenance things.
Now, I started writing this blog post... weeks ago? Oh man. I'm so sorry but I got very lazy. Anyway, in the meantime, our lights in our master bathroom stopped working.. well, not just the lights. The outlets! So, I put a plea on facebook for someone to recommend an electrician, when an old buddy from high school responded that he has a handyman business and could come check it out. What a dream! Someone I know, and trust?? HECK YES! So, he came over and fixed it in about 30 seconds haha. We had a lose wire, and then a couple of days later he came and replaced the outlets because they're old and not so great. Anyway, I asked if he could do flooring and he can! So we're going to be getting our tile floors and well within our budget! Whoo hooo!!
I also mentioned to him that I wanted granite countertops again... soooo beautiful! He said "Do you know how costly they are?" "er... no?" Try over $25/square foot. "Oh really :(" he said he can do butcherblock countertops so I'm giving it a serious thinking!
Anyway, gonna go ahead and publish this long overdue post!
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