OMG! Could THAT actually be a kitchen?

After much ado about a lot, my kitchen almost existed and was almost no longer a figment of my imagination. I say almost because the dishwasher, range hood, sink and disposal would arrive and get installed in a few days. The finished product looks better than I could have ever imagined!

In a mere 4 weeks since closing on the house, we:

• Gutted the kitchen down to studs and sub floor
• Tore down the wall between the kitchen and dining room, effectively creating an eat in kitchen
• Installed doggy door for our Beagle so she can come and go as she pleases
• Dry walled ceiling we messed up when tearing down old wall, and leveling areas that once had a wall between them.
• Installed new floor in an attempt to match 80 year old wood floor in kitchen
• Ripped out three rooms worth of 1936 paneling from the master suite
• Re insulated the master suite
• Installed almost all the drywall in the master suite
• Took over a week to move 2 households into 2 storage units
• Sanded, stained, varnished kitchen floor, in addition developed allergic bumps to either floor stain or varnish
• Bought kitchen appliances
• Installed 75% of the kitchen cabinets

Yet to do:

• Finish mudding drywall seams in master suite
• Build storage cubbies to hold all our stuff
• Carpet master suite
• Refinish balance of first floor hardwood floors
• Move all of our stuff from storage units into house
• Install some sort of closet system in dressing room
• Install return and registers for kitchen and upstairs
• Paint - EVERY ROOM
• Have driveway poured
• IMPORTANT NOTE: By the time you get to this finished product, (photographed almost a year after purchase) we'd painted the kitchen walls three different times:
  • first a blue gray (a la Pottery Barn)
  • Palm Green (a la the den color)
  • The inside of an avocado (ceiling and walls) - final color