Here is our 90% of the way almost-finished kitchen!
(But I think that’s close enough to warrant a reveal!)
It features:
– Ikea cabinets in black-brown & glossy white
– solid hard wood walnut floors on the diagonal
– full-wall marble mosaic backsplash
– concrete countertops
– live edge walnut light
We kept the appliance layout – but we did scootch the fridge over to the left in order to widen the doorway.
We added cabinets where there previously were none in the window bump-out. We also made the countertop so it extended all the way to the edge of the wall… creating a little more legroom for a stool.
We had enough room for a large island and a tall cabinet surrounding the fridge.
We still need to address the basement stair door. On this wall, we expanded the doorway and removed the built-in pantry in order to add the tall Ikea cabinets…which still function as a panty – just a less imposing one.
As a reminder we went from this…
We eliminated a good portion of the upper cabinets, but we added lower cabinets by the windows. We still have plenty of storage space actually.
Even though it looks essentially finished, we have a few things that still need to be done:
– make and install the concrete waterfall sides to the island (this is the big one)
– install lights above both windows
– finish caulking the baseboard
– sand & paint the spot on the ceiling (from when we moved the main light)
– replace or paint the basement door
– make & install the trim around the basement door
– make & install transition flooring strips for the basement door & dining room opening
We will be tackling those concrete counter waterfall sides for the island – but Spencer and I both decided to take a break for a while. Those countertops are labor intensive!
Had you considered renting a drywall sander that attaches to you shop vacume and sand down the stippleing on the ceilings as opposed to skim coating?
Thanks for your comment Matt! It has been a while since we renovated the kitchen and I honestly can’t recall if we knew about the drywall sander at the time. If we did know about the tool, it may have been out of our budget for renting (we were keeping a very tight budget) or we might have thought it would be difficult to physically lift and use. Even if we had rented the drywall sander, we probably would have needed to still skim coat in order to smooth everything out (we did sand the points down with an orbital sander). If I could go back in time with my current knowledge, I would most likely just re-drywall the ceiling instead.