Final Kitchen Reveal

Our kitchen is finally finished and it's time to reveal the before and after photos. First, here's a little glimpse of the day we took possession of the house...

Are you ready? Let's do this

The Kitchen Progress

So remember that post way back in the fall when I posted a picture of a kitchen reno in progress? Well here's a little before and after of that project.

The kitchen side one, when we moved into the house

The Kitchen side one, all finished!

Stuff we did:

• New Brazilian cherry hardwood floor to match the rest of the house went in just before we moved into the house.
• Joel installed the new Kenmore Elite convection double ovens to replace the 1963 Chambers double ovens. 
• The hardwood drawer fronts and cupboard doors were sanded down, primed and painted with a paint sprayer (about 5-6 coats)
• The whole frame around the cupboards had to be rebuilt to hold the new butcher block
• The butcher block was custom made here in Marin and installed (it weighs a ton!)
• Oiled bronze pulls were ordered from Lee Valley - gotta support our favourite Canadian hardware!
• Benjamin Moore chalkboard paint in that deep warm grey was used on flat areas around the back of the kitchen island and up the side of the oven cupboard area. 

Meanwhile back in the Kitchen

"Lets just paint the kitchen cupboards and install new appliances" - Joel (sometime in August)

Naturally this Virgo got going on this project and noticed that nothing had ever been done properly in this kitchen and set to work bringing the plumbing and electrical back to code, re-doing the previous wrong kind of drywall, rebuilding all the supports for the appliances. And that's before we started on the paint... which needed 2 primer coats + 3 coats of paint and we needed to buy a paint sprayer and a sander. Then the drawer beds weren't good enough so those are all being replaced with custom made solid alder, dove tail, full extension drawers. Then drawer pulls needed to be ordered from Lee Valley in Canada because the solid oiled brass was the obvious choice. The island is getting a 350lb custom made butcher block which Joel is currently building a support system to hold up and this is just ONE side of the kitchen. We decided to do one side at a time. #saveme