Kitchen Complete!

It took a few months, but our kitchen is finished! :) When we bought the house, the kitchen layout was one of my favorite parts. It's BIG, and it has big windows that look out on the trees and the back yard. I wasn't a fan of the countertops, old boring cabinets, layout, sink...pretty much everything, but the size and windows. It took a while, but Steve fixed it up for me in his own DIY ways. First, he did the trim. He's working on doing white trim in the whole house. The rough cedar was so annoying. Then, he did the pantry doors. He took the louvers out and put corregated metal in. This is Hailey's magnet spot. I made the magnets on top out of bottle caps.

Here you can see some of the countertops. He did stained concrete countertops. He also reshaped some of the countertop area.

Steve sanded all of the cabinets and stained them darker to give them a more updated look.

He also put in a new stove hood. Now, the smoke alarm doesn't go off every time we make bacon.

Steve made a butcher block so we could move the refrigerator away from the stove and put in tiles under the stove and refrigerator. (There was a huge spot there without tiles when we moved in.)

Here you can see some of the bright blue wall and the sink that is under the countertops.

He also put in shelves under the counter where the built in oven used to be and made a shelf for the microwave.

Here's a close up of the butcher block. It's amazing.

One of my favorite things is the chalk board. Steve made it out of an old frame.

Here's a close up of the petoskey stones (our state stone) in the countertop. We wanted to personalize it a bit. I love my big sink.

I'm a pretty lucky girl to have a husband that can do all of this. We didn't want to put a lot of money into the project because we don't see ourselves living here for a long time, but it needed to be done. Now, I love hanging out in the kitchen.