Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts

Monday, September 9, 2013

Wick-House Before & After

These before and afters are crazy!  Can you tell a single guy lived here before us : )  Enjoy . . .

Living Room
Other than painting, we really didn’t do much to this room.  We did add a doorway into the kitchen. 

before
after




 Kitchen
The kitchen ended up being on of my favorite spaces in our home. We went with marble counter tops and white subway tile backsplash.  If you’re on the fence about marble, do it!  It stains, gets rings from wets glasses, you can’t put hot pans on it, the list goes on!  But it is the most beautiful countertop option out there!  I like to think of each ring and ding as our mark and history on the house.  We added a wall of cabinets which served as our pantry (since there was not one before).  These cabinets are probably one of the most functional ways to build a pantry!  I miss them already.  The wall between the den and kitchen was taken down and rebuilt as a bar top, opening the den up into the kitchen.

before

after

 


Den
This is where we added square footage onto the house.  It was only about a 10 ft x 13 ft add on, but made a world of difference.  Since the washer/dryer were originally in the kitchen, we add a small closet in the den to house these.  

before
after


Dining Room
The previous dining room had french doors out onto the deck.  Those were relocated to the den.  This room also had the only doorway into the kitchen, which was moved into the living room.  The flow into and out of this room was way off!  Then a coat of paint and a new pendant light finished it off.  
before


after  




Thursday, June 23, 2011

Countertop Hunting

I was overjoyed when I got the go ahead to redo some of the kitchen in the new house.  The plan is to make one of the walls in the kitchen a countertop opening into the new den.  Doing this means laying new countertops on this side of the kitchen.  Personally I am SO over the same speckled granite (which is currently on the existing countertops).  Sooo while we have the guys tearing things up, we might as well have them take up the existing countertops and lay some pretty ones down : )


Concrete or Carrera marble Countertops were always on the tops of my list!  After doing a little research, I'm not sold that they are the best choice.  Unfortunately granite seems to be the lowest maintenance option.  Recently I read up on quartz which is very similar to granite.  The only con I read was that it was a solid color...I'm not sold on that being a con though.  I would love some feedback from personal experiences with countertops!


My Vision:  bright white cabinets, white subway tiles, with a gray countertop


This countertop is done in Soapstone.  Love the look of it, but don't know much about Soapstone.  
found here

found here
This is the kitchen currently.  Not too bad, just not my taste.  The wall where the refrigerator is will become a countertop looking over into the den.  (obviously the refrigerator will be moved)


Please feel free to add your two cents about countertops, I'm feeling quite overwhelmed with all choices!!!