My current kitchen sucks. For instance, this is the view of the kitchen from the living room:
I'd like to point out a couple of awesome things about my current kitchen:
- Those cabinet handles. And their placement. Seriously? These people were ready to screw on their cabinet handles and the best possible place they could come up with was dead center?
- Those lovely cabinets. They look wood... they're not. I couldn't even paint them as originally planned.
- That flooring. It's on top of about 2 other layers of flooring. The floor in the kitchen has a good 3/4" on the living room floor.
- You can literally see all but 2 cabinets in the kitchen in this picture and you see 100% of my counter space. Yup, that little area on top of the dishwasher is my only counter space.
- The only drawer in the kitchen is hidden between the dishwasher and the fridge and it's only about 8" wide. No silverware trey fits in there!
- The light... or lack thereof... there's a ceiling fan in the middle of the room. That's the only light. It's sooooo dark!
- The clutter. I HAVE NO CABINET SPACE! So this room is so full of clutter, I hate it.
So you can obviously see why I'm desperate for a new kitchen.
Feast your eyes on this! This is the new view from the living room (colors are not correct in this drawing)
Look at all that new counter space! All my drawers, all my cabinets, the correct placement of the handles, all those recessed lights, the under cabinet lights, etc.
I took some liberties in photoshop with my designers drawings and added in pictures of my appliances, pictures of my backsplash, and pictures of the sink and faucets I already picked up and added in the color I think I'll paint.
Look how pretty! (Pretty sweet photoshop skills huh? )
- Yes, I put two faucets on the sink, one is an instant hot water heater.
- The sink is a stainless steel farmhouse apron front sink
- The main faucet is a pull down spiral faucet
- There are 7 drawers (as opposed to my current 1)!!!!
- And counter space? I currently have about 5 sq. feet of counter space. The new layout more than quadruples it!
- The cabinets are cherry
- The countertops are Quartz (Silestone)
- Not pictured: My custom designed spice shelf (couldn't figure out how to photoshop that one in)
So now that you've met my new kitchen, what do you think?? Hopefully by October I'll be able to show you the completed photos but in the meantime, expect plenty of 'during' shots!