New Backsplash in Kitchen

With the completion of the backsplash, the kitchen is complete.
 There is still organizing that needs to be done inside the cabinets but the kitchen is done.
 It looks fantastic.

Kitchen

The kitchen turned out great and the cabinets and granite is beautiful.  The kitchen sink is working and the stove is left to be hooked up.  The tile for the back splash has been ordered and then the kitchen is done.

Kitchen Cabinets and Granite Countertops

The cabinets and granite countertops are in and look great.  Everything is matching really well.

A picture to the left of the stove.

A picture to the right of the dishwasher.  You can see the new window/door to the right of the picture.

A close up of the granite

The pass through with granite

The opening is where the stove goes and above that is the microwave. To the right of the doorway is the refrigerator.

Getting Closer

Underneath the butcher paper and cardboard boxes is the completed wood flooring. If you look on the edges, you can see it peeking through.  The base cabinets are in and the doors and uppers should be installed in a couple of weeks.  The appliances have been delivered too.  Carpet is being installed this week so maybe next week I'll have pictures of the carpet.

Kitchen with base cabinets and new refrigerator

Hallway

And the big gaping hole in the back of the house finally has a door too.

Kitchen - in progress

The overhead light area has been changed more.  The soffits were moved to 18in and the rest of the area opened up.  Cabinets have been order but the stain still needs to be decided on.

View through the dining room arch looking into the kitchen.

Teak Flooring and Cabinets

This is the flooring that John likes.  It has a lot of movement and is really pretty. We haven't decided if this is what we are going for yet but I'm thinking we probably will because John is always drawn to it.

John contacted with a cabinet guy tonight.  I'm glad that is moving forward.  The cabs should be in by end of December.  Still need to order countertops, which can't be measured until cabs are in.  Move in maybe mid-January?

Kitchen During

These pictures are the kitchen while the pantry walls were still partially there.

The brick wall was also removed opening up the kitchen.

Looking towards the dining room; towards the side door out to the patio area.

Kitchen wall and cabinets are removed.

Kitchen - Before

Walls?  What walls?

Brick wall?  What brick wall?

John  tore through the kitchen knocking down walls to design an awesome kitchen.

The kitchen started off as a galley kitchen.  Small and narrow but it had a huge pantry.  Removing the pantry opened up the space right away but you'll have to check out  future blog entries to see those pictures.  There was some cool tile work in the kitchen.

Along with a neat area with cabinets.  We saved the cabinets and will have to see if we can somehow use them.

The microwave had been removed, by the prior, foreclosed on owners, probably because it was new enough to have value.  The oven, cooktop and dishwasher they had left behind.  No matter, we are getting new appliances anyways.