Our Kitchen {The Details}

Let's start at the really beginning...a really skillful house to start...

Photo via MLS listing

About 2 months after moving in, I stripped all of the wallpaper.  

(Tip-warm H2O inwards a spray bottle amongst a few drops of Dawn master copy dish lather is the best I've establish to take wallpaper.  Spray thoroughly, hold off close twenty minutes, together with start peeling.  If your newspaper doesn't come upwards off easily or completely, respray together with hold off a fiddling longer.  Usually if I had a work I either didn't acquire it moisture plenty or didn't hold off long enough.  Still, stripping wallpaper is the worst task ever!) 

I textured together with painted the walls.  We also changed out the sink faucet roughly that fourth dimension together with switched out hardware, but no other major changes until close iii years later.

Sometimes you lot but receive got to alive inwards a infinite for a piece together with figure out what plant together with what doesn't.  I loved the isle inwards the kitchen, together with because of the layout, I did 95% of my locomote there.  On close 24" of counter space.  I actually persuasion close the persuasion of enlarging the island.  There was tons of unused infinite at the terminate of the island, but the bar counter angled inwards towards the middle of the kitchen.  If nosotros lengthened the island, at that spot would receive got been mere inches betwixt the border of the isle together with the corner of the angled cabinet.

Photo via MLS listing

I consulted my dad together with a friend close what would live involved inwards slicing the sink counter where it started to angle together with  making the angle wider.  They both seemed to cry upwards that wouldn't live also difficult.  A coming together amongst a contractor (didn't desire to create this large of a projection ourselves...we're non that good!) confirmed that this would live a relatively unproblematic together with cheap project, hence enlarging the isle was a go!  We had already planned to acquire novel counter tops, hence the timing was correct to but create everything at once.   

Here you lot tin reckon the footprint of where the cabinet base of operations used to sit, together with how much nosotros swung it out.  Providentially at that spot were exactly 

enough tiles establish inwards the garage to patch the spot.

Here is the isle amongst 1 terminate torn apart.  The invention was to add together some other 2 human foot department to the end, where I had them install 2 pull-out drawers.

We added 1 large cabinet door to those pull-outs together with that is where I continue my toaster oven together with mixing bowls.  Very handy.  The workers had removed the terminate panel together with trim down molding, hence they but replaced it after the additional department was completed.

For all of my cabinet painting, I've used the Behr pigment amongst primer inwards it from Home Depot.  I didn't sand, but cleaned amongst TSP beforehand.  We removed all of the doors together with drawers together with set them outside.  They were all painted amongst a foam roller together with a brush for the corners.  I painted the fronts together with backs of the doors but did non paint 

the insides of the cabinets.

Finished!  That entire correct panel is the novel department added, hence you lot tin reckon how much empty infinite at that spot was before.

I added drinking glass knobs together with pulls hither for a chip of sparkle together with to lighten things a bit.

There was an opening left when nosotros widened the angle, which they patched together with I added some moulding afterwards to encompass some seams.  If nosotros would receive got persuasion a fiddling to a greater extent than earlier mitt nosotros in all likelihood could receive got added some other tall skinny door at that spot or something, but didn't realize that at that spot would live that large of a empty spot created.  Oh well, alive together with learn.

The white colouring was "Cottage White" past times Behr amongst a glaze over it.  I sprayed (aack!) polyurethane over the glaze which set together with sealed it quickly.  I've read that the spray poly that I used may receive got a vogue to yellowish over time, but we'll see.  I believe you lot tin but glaze together with position nada on top of it, but it takes forever to dry out together with cure.

My hardware was fairly novel together with I notwithstanding liked it, but it was an antique-brass.  I spray painted all of the knobs together with pulls amongst Rustoleum's Oil-Rubbed Bronze (ORB).  It has a actually pretty slightly sparkly finish.  The pigment has held upwards good inwards the 1 1/2  years since we've done this, although I receive got noticed a knick on 1 push clit that I demand to acquit upon up.  

I purchased an in-stock sink from Home Depot.  One bowl is slightly bigger than the other, together with that larger side is HUGE together with DEEP.  Love it.  Only drawback-I tin pile agency also many dishes inwards at that spot earlier they acquire inwards to the dishwasher!  It's a composite granite sink together with I've been really pleased amongst it.  I've ever had a white shape atomic position out 26 sink before, together with this 1 actually resists markings together with is slow to clean.  

The kitchen was already wired for fluorescent nether cabinet lighting, but Ray took those downwards together with installed element of group VII spots that nosotros establish at Home Depot.  He also position them on a dimmer switch together with the glow is prissy together with warm.  We used these fiddling boxes to incorporate all of the cords.  I intended to pigment the cords the colouring of the cabs, but but realized seeing these pictures that I forgot.  We never reckon them-out of sight out of mind!

The pantry doors were large together with plain, hence I bought some trim down that matched what was on the residue of our interior doors together with added those boxes earlier icon the doors.  I also sprayed those knobs amongst the ORB paint.

We already had done some backsplash locomote that I'll verbalize close inwards some other post, but these are the tin-looking tiles that are actually plastic that you lot tin buy at Lowe's or Home Depot.  They are also spray-painted inwards ORB.  We re-used them for forthwith but may create something unlike for the backsplash inwards the future.  

So, that's close it!  Way to a greater extent than data than I'm certain you lot wanted.  But, if there's anything I didn't address that you lot desire to know experience gratuitous to 

leave a query inwards the comments.

Have a fantastic weekend!

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