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Our overall goal for style was to make the room feel larger and more like a kitchen than an adobe dwelling. Also we wanted to remove the dark, heavy feel that the backsplash, drawer hardware, and paint color gave the room. In this picture, we ripped out the heavy tile backsplash and replaced it with beadboard; painted the cabinets; replaced the cabinet hardware; replaced the sink and sink hardware; installed a light above the sink; added needed electrical outlets; installed new butcherblock countertops and painted the room a great warm yellow.
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I love how deep the new sink is and the sink hardware is great. We removed two of the cabinet doors as well as the wood space in the center to give some open shelves in the middle of the cabinet space. This helped update the kitchen with a current trend and allowed for some of our dishes to be displayed. I love the old glasses made of carnival glass at the top that my grandma gave me. She bought them for me from an antique shop and I've kept them stored under my bed for many years waiting to display them.
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The stove top/microwave was one of the main reasons we realized that we HAD to go all out on renovating the kitchen. The microwave was too large for the space, and it wasn't possible to reach and view the cook space below. We will eventually add a hood above the newly installed stove. We had to cut out the cabinet space below the stove top, but we added a storage space by adding a cabinet next to the refrigerator.
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The refrigerator felt like it was floating in the room and didn't match the rest of the black appliances. We moved the refrigerator to the right. This allowed us to build it in so it felt like it was part of the kitchen and not floating on its own. It also made room for a new cabinet and a place for the microwave.
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This was one of the other reasons that we felt we needed to make more drastic updates to the kitchen right away. The wall oven was only 24" making it difficult to fit a small cookie sheet in it without touching the front and the back of the oven. The kitchen also was missing a food pantry. By making a few moves, we opened up the space to add in shelves, which we evently, will add a door to the front of the pantry. There was a short "desk" next to the former wall oven, which we removed. We plan on adding a window seat in the open space in phase two.
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The laundry room is next to the kitchen. We painted the walls the same color as the kitchen (also so the walls wouldn't be the same color as the floor). To make painting easier, we took the washer and dryer out, and when we put them back in, we switched them so the washer's on the left and the dryer's on the right. Then they open like suicide doors making it more convenient to move wet laundry into the dryer. The cabinets were also removed to add additional shelf storage that stretches the entire length of the wall space.
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The kitchen table space feels larger with using the bookselves in the corner and the large, glass table. We removed the rail around the room, plastered and sanded the walls, put on two coats of primer and two coats of paint to cover the "adobe feeling" hunter green. I'm really pleased with how the color turned out. It was a huge relief to see the color in my mind become the same color on the walls. We got good advice from several friends to buy smaller, test size buckets of paint and also to buy good paint. Once painting the test paint on a section of the walls, we realized that the color on the wall was not the same as the color swatch. So, we took it back and had them add a little red to it. They also printed the new paint color ingredients on the side of the test bucket. So, when we went back to get gallon sizes, we knew it would be the same as what we tested on the walls.
It's fun to look back and realize the room's potential has now become reality.
These are amazing!! You all did such a great job! Can't wait to see it in person in a few weeks.
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