The Saga of the New Kitchen

It's a little odd to move into a new house - that's less than 4 years old - and want to gut a piece of it, but that's exactly what we're in the process of doing. Don't get me wrong, we love the house. We love the space. Had we built it, we would have just put more money into kitchen and bathrooms. The previous owners put more into window coverings, paint and an optional breezeway (which we love). But I digress.

This is a shot of the current kitchen as seen from the back of the dining room.



Yes, there is a lot of crap everywhere - we just moved, give me a break. And there isn't really anything WRONG with it. It's just not "us."

Our issues:

• The cabinets are very basic oak.
• They're 30" cabinets (we have 9' ceilings) so there is a lot of wasted space.
• Some of the doors open in a direction we find counter-intuitive.
• The shelves on the bottom cabinets are HALF shelves. Utterly useless.
• The countertops are formica.
• With as much cooking as Brian does, we want a solid surface counter top that can take heat, cutting, etc.
• The appliances, though nice, were all white.
• Only the dishwasher on the right and the micro-hood remain. The rest have been removed. We have new stainless versions of those, but they're in boxes waiting for the remodel.
• The pantry looks like a hall closet.

We've met with Home Depot and ended up with Kraftmaid cabinets with all kinds of goodies. Gotta jet for a moment, so I'll update on the NEW kitchen in another post tomorrow.