{"id":3860,"date":"2015-07-09T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:50:55","slug":"diy-kitchen-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/07\/diy-kitchen-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Kitchen Transformation: The Big Reveal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are done!<\/p>\n

Today the contractor finished grouting the backsplash tile, and with the exception of some very tiny touch ups and sealing the grout, our kitchen is officially REMODELED!<\/p>\n

Before:<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This was how the kitchen looked when we were first viewing the house in May 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After:<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My attempt to replicate the same view, July 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before:<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I call this the “desky area”. From May 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After:<\/p>\n

\"Pardon<\/a>
Pardon the fridge mess. July 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Enjoy some other views of our most-awesome kitchen that I will work extra hard to keep clean!<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This view includes the natural light from outside. You can see how brown the island is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I've<\/a>
I’ve never had a drop-down sink. I’ve had stainless steel sinks before and have always liked having them. Cleaning this will be a breeze! This faucet style\u00a0was Dave’s choice and he got it as a Father’s Day gift; since we were in the thick of cabinet renovations when Mother’s Day rolled around, I didn’t want any gifts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This corner of the kitchen is now more dark with the\u00a0darker backsplash (see the shadow cast over my storage containers?)…we’re discussing under cabinet lighting, but for now it’ll need to be inexpensive battery-powered ones<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"We<\/a>
We were working hard to get the lighting right for this. It wasn’t easy, between the cloudy outside light, the room’s lighting, and the camera flash. This turned out pretty well. And my kitchen looks so CLEAN!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So let’s recap everything we did here:<\/p>\n

1.) New appliances. Except for the dishwasher, which is pretty awesome…the white dishwasher was motivation for painting the cabinets white.<\/p>\n

2.) New beadboard for the kitchen island<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3.) Painted kitchen island<\/a> and bar stools<\/a> espresso brown.<\/p>\n

4.) Installed crown moulding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4.) Painted all other cabinets white<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5.) Applied cabinet hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6.) Refinished hardwood floor<\/a>. This was much-overdue…after 17 years of wear-and-tear, the sanding and restaining makes the floors look like new for a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I was able to grab this picture of the “before” and “after” floor colors when we moved the oven out of the way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

7.) Installed new countertop. Let me grace you with these “before” photos of the nasty countertop we had.<\/p>\n