Kitchen renovation: Before and After!

[Lindsey]

Here is my kitchen before taking it out, and everything stacked in the hallway!

[Lindsey]

And here are the "after" photos I just took after cleaning up as much as I could! We are covering the vent above the stove and not venting our new range hood. Also, the light colored cabinets base cabinets will be covered in this panel stuff we bought so eventually it will all match the color of the doors.

[paula1961]

Lindsey I love the new kitchen! I really love your new countertops!!! And they go so well with your new cabinets!! Great choices:thumbup: You have such a good eye for color choice!!! Are you Diana's daughter in another life:D I think it looks awesome!!!!!!!!!

[judy]

How beautiful Linds! It is just perfect! I love the dark cabinets with the counter-tops! You really do have such great taste.

[Blueyes]

Oh my gosh, the difference is like night and day!!! Beautiful...just BEAUTIFUL!!! I knew you'd get it done!!

[DianaB]

Lindsey, it looks beautiful!!! I love the darker colored cabinets and the handles are just beautiful!! It looks just like a kitchen you'd see in a magazine!!! Good job!!!

[Lindsey]

Thanks so much! It's pretty much exactly my dream kitchen, except in my dream it's a lot bigger LOL
But we did get so much more space than we had before, about 10 inches more space between the fridge and stove, and a couple of inches on the other side. I don't have enough stuff to put away! And I don't think I could ever use another kitchen without POT DRAWERS! I'm glad Scott suggested them :D

[gja1000]

Lindsay, everything looks so beautiful - the kitchen is really really nice, it's just like night and day!!! How did you get the new cabinets to fit perfectly??? Did you have them made? I thought you bought them already made (I'm probalby wrong), so I don't know how they were fit so nicely to your space???

[Lindsey]

They're actually just the Home Depot line of ready to assemble cabinets, and I could design my kitchen online, which is what I did! The cabinets above the stove are quite crooked, the box must have been crooked in the first place, but luckily they aren't TOO noticeable now. We are still putting crown molding on the top, and a light rail on the bottom. We have a small light that will be hidden behind that above the sink

[Janet]

When I looked at the before pictures, I thought...very nice...very clean looking and then when I saw the "after" it's like WOW WOW!!! You have done a wonderful job!! Your kitchen is beautiful Lindsey.

[Lindsey]

Thanks Janet! I probably would have been fine with keeping the old cabinets if it weren't for the really old musty smell in them. I could hardly drink from a glass if it had been in the cupboard because all I could smell was that old wood smell. So, if we were putting in new cabinets, why not make it something I REALLY wanted :D

[gja1000]

OH! I didn't realize you got them from Home Depot - well, that makes perfect sense that they would fit! LOL!!! I need new cabinets too, but I don't want to spend the money! I'd rather go to Alaska this summer! :D

[Lindsey]

These ones were actually one of the cheapest ones there! But i would rather go to Alaska too, it's beautiful there! I have family in the Yukon and we went to visit a few years ago.

[Shada]

Love the new kitchen! Good job!!

Merry Christmas!!