KITCHEN REMODEL

We had plans to remodel our kitchen (mostly because of the cabinets-original to the house).  It was going to be somewhere in the future like 3 years from when it actually took place.

We were blessed with a leak in our hose to the fridge, which moved up the process a few years!!                                                        

                                                       Here is the kitchen before.  

I really liked our floors and the counter tops, but they had to come out to fix the water leak which in turn resulted in new floors (entire upstairs).  We decided since we had to move the cabinets to replace the sub floor, it was a "perfect" time to just gut and redo the entire kitchen.

Here is the list of projects we had to do in the kitchen: 
(to do the kitchen, we had to redo much of the entire upstairs...yeah!

• Rip out: existing cabinets, counter tops, appliances, light fixture (doesn't everyone want a ceiling fan in the kitchen?), soffets (ceiling above cabinets), and baseboards.

• Have drywall patched.
• Have walls textured (entire upstairs) over the many different varieties of textures.  Each room had a different texture- even Venetian plaster for much of the upstairs.   
• Install new laminate floors
• Paint
• Install new baseboards (one day we will finish with caulking!)
• Have can lights put in kitchen 
• New ceiling fans upstairs
• New cabinets
• New counter tops and sink
• New appliances

I think that could be all.... thank you leak for allowing us to spend our summer redoing our entire upstairs!  Although, I really do love my new kitchen, and upstairs even if I wasn't to excited to pay for a new kitchen 3 years too soon!

                                                    Here are some pics of the process:

2014 AFTER

BEFORE 2013