After 6 years of living with gold fleck counter tops Aaron and I finally decided it was time to replace them. Luckily our friend Jeff does counter tops and said that he would cut us a deal on some new ones. New counters would have been enough for me but thanks to the creative thinking of my husband/in-laws/friends we are pretty much doing a complete kitchen over hall. It is still a work in progress but I am SO HAPPY with it already!!!
Here are a few pics of the work so far - I will keep posting as the progress continues :)
The biggest improvement on this side of the kitchen is that we installed our dishwasher (it was a portable that lived in the dining room). We took out the cupboard next to the sink to put the dishwasher in. We also removed the gold fleck back splash and when the new counters come it will be redone. We are also going to hang a nice pendant light above the sink but still need to run the electrical for that.
This is the other side of the kitchen where we moved the cupboard that we took out for the dishwasher. We took out another cupboard on the other side of the fridge to make room for this one. It is awesome because it really increases the counter space. We are going to hang another cupboard in the empty space but it needs to be altered a bit first. You can also see my new stove in this pic. It is so nice to finally have a working oven - it has been about 1 1/2 years since I have had a working oven and I forgot how much I really do use the oven!!
The other main thing that we did in the kitchen is remove the old drop ceiling. You can see from the paint how much taller the ceiling is now. We still have to make some repairs to the ceiling and then repaint everything but the extra height makes the room seem so much bigger.
We still have a lot of work to do but thanks to my AWESOME work crew (you gotta love workers who work for beer and wings) we got TONS done yesterday and the kitchen is back to a functional state for the week ahead :)
