Kitchen: Before and After

I recently posted photos of my kitchen renovation project. 

I'm sure many of you know the story behind my house, but some of you may not. 

In 2007 we were deeded over my great grandparents house. It had been sitting vacant for years, my great grandparents things still in the closets. A few relatives had temporarily lived in the house, but never to make it a permanent home. In fact, when we moved in, my great grandpa's bank statements from 1920 were still in one of the closets. We ended up filling two huge dumpsters with moth eaten clothing, old broken furniture and unusable appliances. 

The house is really small, so to make it functional, we had to do a lot of major remodeling including tearing out one wall and building a new one. We (and by we I mean my husband, I was 7 months pregnant at this point) built new cabinets, put in a header above said cabinets and put in recessed lighting. We tiled the floor in the kitchen and bathroom. We gutted the bathroom and have yet to finish. 

Since I posted the kitchen semi-befores, I post the actual befores so you can see what we started with. (Including my grandparents things still sitting around. FYI, the computers were being stored here by another relative.)

These cabinets are on the same wall as ours, but the wall on the left has been torn out. We also built a wall on the right where our stove is now.

This wall has been removed and is now open to our living room.

This is looking into the kitchen from the living room (before the new microwave and backsplash, just haven't taken new pics) where the old wall would have been. We built the wall the stove is on.

New microwave before backsplash and island.

Finished after backsplash.

For more of the finished backsplash go here.

One Project Down

That title is actually kind of a lie. If you'll remember my last post, we started a new project at our house. We finally put up a backsplash in the kitchen. Before my husband could finish, we needed more glue (or something). He made a trip to walmart to get more only to find some knobs that he liked for the drawers. 

He got home and finished gluing the backsplash and then put on the drawer knobs. He then decided that he loved the look of the knobs so much that he wanted to finish the cabinets by putting handles on the doors. (Three and a half years later we can afford it.)

So, just a reminder, here's the before (and here is the before we moved in before)

And the after:

Here are the drawer knobs and door handles.

(Linked at I Heart Naptime)