Kitchen Makeover: The ‘Plans’

I’m such a tease. I know it. These past two weeks i’ve been showing little bits and pieces here and there, without ever showing the whole sha-bang. I figured since its Friday, I should be nice and stop with the teasing, and just be real. So without further ado, here are the ‘plans’.

Before:

After:

Thanks to Lowes we were able to draw up a pretty good image of what we were going for. They let you do one main room for free. Remember, we really like free:) We of course did the kitchen so we could envision what we were wanting. In this photo above is shows a pretty good picture of what were having done. Some changes are that the table in the kitchen will most likely be round instead of rectangle, and we definitely would never have hideous green seat cushions {or whatever those look like in the photo-yikes!} We also are repainting the kitchen, so the color of wall will no longer be a light yellow, but instead something different. And here i’m totally not trying to be a tease again, we just cant freaking decide. I want something, he wants something different. I think I should win because -HELLO who uses the kitchen more often?! Also, on the wall with brick, it shows a yellow strip of paint that wont be painted. That whole wall is brick, the arch way and all. Another change is that we of course are doing crown and base boards all over. Lets be honest here, there isn’t one room {NO exaggeration here} in our house that doesn’t have crown and baseboards. Moulding obsessed much? Nah. And finally, two other things will change as well. We aren’t going to have cabinets on the side of the island where stools will be. That will simply be an overhang over granite, so people can comfortably put their legs under the island. After all, to us- a kitchen is where people should feel comfortable to linger, to hang out, to have memorable conversations, so the more comfortable we can make it-the better.

This is the old layout of our house (we made it at floorplanner.com which is a great site to create the layout of your house). The grey-brown color shows where there is wood. The yellow shows the old tile we had. You know, the tile they used in all bathrooms, kitchen, and wait for it..the kitchen countertops! PTL we will no longer have big tiled, large grouted, counters! Instead, we might think of getting a little bit of help from Stone Tech Fabricators to choose the ideal stone for our countertops. Woohoo!!!!

This is now the new layout (also from floorplanner.com)! I cannot wait for the kitchen and living room to flow together. To be able to be standing at the island {the island we never had before!!!ekk!} and be able to look out into the living room and interact. Before, I totally felt like I was cut off from any and all communication going on outside the kitchen. Now when we have dinner parties I will actually be able to talk with the guests! Yay! This might not be good though..me multitasking while cooking doesn’t equal good food. Yikes.