Cookin' Up A Kitchen

Remember the 'before' Kitchen pictures? Here's where we left off... After two weeks of owning the condo, we gutted the kitchen. I stayed out of the way for most of this one, since falling cabinets and a big belly don't go hand in hand. And it was a huge ongoing project for the next several months, although to date it still is not finished. Here's the view from the dining room.

We tore out the two closet/pantrys on either side of the kitchen entrance. And while we lost a little storage, they were really making the kitchen way smaller than it should be. And while removing wallpaper, we found another hidden flower stencil.While we had our demolition hats on, we figured why not take down the ceiling? If you can tell from the pictures, it was LOW. Which was odd and very out of place since the rest of the condo has tall ceilings.

My awesome husband even hooked up a gas line so I could have a gas stove on the other side of the kitchen (the previous stove was on the side closest to the dining room and was electric...no gas hookup).

And one day we finally had walls again. Since we took out the awful lighting when we raised the ceiling, we installed can lights. Nice and bright now!

The new year brought new tile, all laid while 5 months pregnant. Not the easiest thing to be on your knees with a trowel spreading tile adhesive! You might notice the little nook in the left of the photo below. Since the closet on the left was also part of the air system intake, we couldn't remove the whole thing. So a small column is still there, and we decided to make it a little more functional by turning it into a sort of shallow open closet.

And eventually I was able to assemble the cabinets and we began to install them.And the day we installed the sink was the most wonderful day of all! No more washing dishes in the bathroom sink or with the hose outside! Hello civilization!

And the pictures below are how the kitchen has looked since February. Notice anything missing? Yeah, the handles! And upper cabinets! Between money, a baby about to be born and a billion other things, we decided that getting in the lower cabinets would be priority. Eventually we'd get around to buying and installing the rest! Within the next couple months we got the handles on though.

And the view again from the dining room. Excuse all the food!Newer pictures to follow!