Two (or was it three?) years ago, I started on a kitchen renovation journey that has yet to see its end. Since the beginning when I removed the cabinet doors and began stripping decades of paint from the cabinet boxes, I have had a lot of stops and starts, toyed with different design approaches, and occasionally looked into hiring someone else to do the work.
Slowly but surely, I landed on an master plan and my efforts are starting to come together. And since I haven't posted in ages, I thought I would do a quick in-progress update.
To preface this, my kitchen is the size of the average bathroom. It's a galley-style that is small enough to be annoying if you get more than one person in it at a time (and doubly annoying if you get two people and a dog in it simultaneously). My house was built in 1940 and while it doesn't qualify as a tiny home, it's pretty darn close in my opinion. And this isn't a complaint because I actually love my house, small spaces and all.
The following pictures were taken after I had stripped the paint off of the bottom cabinets but had not yet tackled the top cabinets.
Originally, the backsplash was this speckled pink laminate sheet that was bowing away from the wall. Upon removal, I found a pretty crusty wall behind it that I immediately resurfaced so as to avoid any nightmares of creatures emerging from the creepy wall in the middle of the night to come and kill me in my sleep. The picture below was taken after the wall was resurfaced.
And to the right of the counter and sink shown above is a shallow alcove where the oven is located. This area was also the victim of speckled pink laminate backsplash, which was removed prior to this picture being taken. Under and behind the free-standing shelf unit in the left of this picture was evidence of a previous built-in cabinet that someone before me had removed. This picture was also taken after I had resurfaced the wall in this area.
Lately I have been making some significant progress on my kitchen master plan and will have more pictures to share soon, including pictures of new cabinet boxes built by me in an attempt to recreate what might have been around the stove previously.
Slowly but surely, I landed on an master plan and my efforts are starting to come together. And since I haven't posted in ages, I thought I would do a quick in-progress update.
To preface this, my kitchen is the size of the average bathroom. It's a galley-style that is small enough to be annoying if you get more than one person in it at a time (and doubly annoying if you get two people and a dog in it simultaneously). My house was built in 1940 and while it doesn't qualify as a tiny home, it's pretty darn close in my opinion. And this isn't a complaint because I actually love my house, small spaces and all.
The following pictures were taken after I had stripped the paint off of the bottom cabinets but had not yet tackled the top cabinets.
Originally, the backsplash was this speckled pink laminate sheet that was bowing away from the wall. Upon removal, I found a pretty crusty wall behind it that I immediately resurfaced so as to avoid any nightmares of creatures emerging from the creepy wall in the middle of the night to come and kill me in my sleep. The picture below was taken after the wall was resurfaced.
Lately I have been making some significant progress on my kitchen master plan and will have more pictures to share soon, including pictures of new cabinet boxes built by me in an attempt to recreate what might have been around the stove previously.
You would tackle about anything wouldn't you, girl? Eager to see more progress! Those bottom cabinets have necessitated a lot of floor time and you were wise to start at the bottom and work up!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marilyn! And yep, no fear for me! :)
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