our kitchen remodel is finally done!!! well, actually, it's been done for a almost a month, but i'm just now getting around to posting it! our house was built in three different stages...the first part, which is the front room, kitchen and middle bathroom, were built in 1928...rooms have been moved around and walls taken down by previous owners...the back two rooms were added on in 1947...then our living room and master bedroom were added in '97...this is a picture as you walk into the house before the kitchen was done... 
a long time ago, this room used to be two rooms, but for us, it was this really long unusual space that separated the kitchen from the living room...we never were in this room, it was basically a hallway...the door goes into the kitchen, which we normally left open...
my red little kitchen...i had always wanted a red kitchen, and i loved it, but it was time for a change! this fridge was so old that one time i tried to get a replacement seal for the edges, and lowe's couldn't even find it in existence!
that door leads to our middle bathroom...and the pantry to the right, my sister and i built since we were limited on our cabinet space...
this is our really old stove and formica counter tops...in our goal of the remodel, we wanted to tear out half of this wall and open it up into the other room...but we were worried about losing even more cabinet space (which i will show how we resolved in a later picture)...
and the demo begins...
a long time ago, this room used to be two rooms, but for us, it was this really long unusual space that separated the kitchen from the living room...we never were in this room, it was basically a hallway...the door goes into the kitchen, which we normally left open...
my red little kitchen...i had always wanted a red kitchen, and i loved it, but it was time for a change! this fridge was so old that one time i tried to get a replacement seal for the edges, and lowe's couldn't even find it in existence!
that door leads to our middle bathroom...and the pantry to the right, my sister and i built since we were limited on our cabinet space...
this is our really old stove and formica counter tops...in our goal of the remodel, we wanted to tear out half of this wall and open it up into the other room...but we were worried about losing even more cabinet space (which i will show how we resolved in a later picture)...
and the demo begins...
we found this cool, old brick under the drywall, which i wanted to expose, but it was all crumbling and in really bad shape...
a couple of weeks later...these are the cabinets we had added, and then we planned on adding a bar top to it
the color of the cabinets is kind of like a slate blue...i love my new cabinets!!!
another couple of weeks...new appliances and counter tops! brutus checking it out
almost there!
FINALLY!
a couple of weeks later...these are the cabinets we had added, and then we planned on adding a bar top to it
the color of the cabinets is kind of like a slate blue...i love my new cabinets!!!
another couple of weeks...new appliances and counter tops! brutus checking it out
almost there!
FINALLY! the finished product...it took about two months, but we were never without use of the kitchen except for two days!
only one column now!
i love how open it feels now...we didn't add any square footage to the kitchen, but it feels so much bigger!
we moved the old door that used to separate the kitchen and the front room to the back of the kitchen...mccoy's room is back there, so it was nice to block out some of the noise at night...
a view from the kitchen...
our new sitting area, aka mccoy's playroom...
only one column now!
i love how open it feels now...we didn't add any square footage to the kitchen, but it feels so much bigger!
we moved the old door that used to separate the kitchen and the front room to the back of the kitchen...mccoy's room is back there, so it was nice to block out some of the noise at night...
a view from the kitchen...
our new sitting area, aka mccoy's playroom...
