Finally...Our kitchen, before and After

The Kitchen - Before


Before the kitchen had one sink, the faucets came from the wall which isn't ideal and the backsplash and counter tops are a very weird material, it was like a plasic.

Keep in mind the cabinet doors were taken off in these pictures. They were painted a very dark green colour, which I called barf green. In this picture you can see the large microwave taking up most of our only counter space, and the portable dishwasher is pulled out because at the time we were running it.

Here you can see the one wall. Below the window is where the portable dishwasher is kept. It was a huge pain always moving it to the sink as the kitchen is small enough already.

This wall is used just for the stove. As you can see there are no cabinets which is a waste of space since there is tones of room for more storage.

Here is the other wall with all the cabinets. Again the doors are all off, but if you have seen the kitchen you know it was a very dark barf green and made the room look very dark and gloomy.

Here is the ugly dishwasher....such an eye soar. You can also see the flooring, it was a very old dirty flooring, not sure what kind of flooring you would call it but thank god its gone..lol.


Another picture of the flooring. The baseboards were also painted a dark green colour, again darkening up the whole space.

The Kitchen - After
Quite the difference eh..New counter tops, new double sink, new Moen faucet, all the cabinets have many fresh coats of paint ( they were very time consuming) new hardware on the cabinets, and we also built a shelf for the new stainless steal microwave. You can also notice we extended the cabinets so we could put the brand new stainless steal dishwaser in. We also have made much more counter space with the extention of the counters over the dishwasher.

Another view of the new kitchen. I love the colour I picked- I call it plum purple. I think it is a good contrast colour to the cabinet colour.

Here you can see the new flooring which we are very pleased with. Very inexpensive and easy to install. A huge improvement from before. You can see a better view of the dishwasher in this picture.
Lots of space in the kicthen because we no longer have to move that awful dishwasher around.

As you can see we no longer have the faucets coming from the wall. Joe installed a new sink, one big one and one half sized sink, I love it. The microwave shelf is amazing as we have much more counter space now!

Finally!...more storage. We added these cabinets and it's amazing how much more storage space we have. I also got that rod and wire storage compartments from Ikea- very handy because we are lacking on storage space for utensils.