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This is our old kitchen, the floors were terrible and so were the cabinets.
Original to a house from the 60's
We had torn off the wallpaper and primed the walls thinking we might be able to save them, not the case
Beginning to rip out
We decided to wall off the closet in the hallway and add a pantry slide in
The gut continues
and continues
and continues
Wallpaper, glued up backer board, and some clean drywall.
Nothing like finding a bee's nest in your wall, thankfully it wasn't active
Making progress
Soon to be a pantry, Tiger inspecting the work
We opened the doorway from 30" to 66" between the living room and kitchen
Overbuilt the header just a little bit
Patched in
Fixing electrical
New windows too
Some primer
Some Color
Time for new floors
Pantry is in
Pantry with doors
Cabinets were IKEA and went up very easy
Some more cabinets
This pantry had the same cubic volume than all of our cabinets from the previous kitchen
I love storage
More storage
More storage
The quartz we chose really brightened the space up
Almost there
A few more finishing touches but we can cook in the kitchen, it was a good amount of work but well worth it.
Penny and Tiger #Dogtax
cinemeasctha
Great work, looks so much better. Love the teal wall
Notchinyourbedpost
Awww yis farmhouse sink!
ilovecatsiloveeverykindacat
Holy crap, it looks great!
K1ltu
The sketchy light in #1 made me cringe
treesnacks
I used same tile in my bathroon. Believe its called fenix anthracite
chagsxr
It's beautiful! I love the brightness of the white. Looks so clean and pristine.
SugarLoaf23
jmorr84
Well done!
Yoggington
Well shit, that's a nice blue.
danthewaterman
We like it
flowseeker
Personally, I thought those cabinets were great. I would have just laied down some pergo hardwood floors.
danthewaterman
We thought about hardwoods but for the money we opted for tile
thisismyworkphone
"EAT!!" Superliminal. Ready to be a grandmother.
SkiaOura
I read it as "EAT COW"
iforgotwhatiwasdoinghere
Glad you put the finished product first.
iforgotwhatiwasdoinghere
Kidding aside, that looks great. What does the light fixture look like now? That's the first thing that jumps out in the before pics.
whyareyouwearingthatstupidmansuit00
SUPER!
BoeingAH64DApacheAttackHelicopter
I think your knives should be upside down on the Magento thingy. The way it is seems scary to me
InsensitiveComments
No before after side by side? Ugh *swipes finger like crazy on phone*
phdiva
This was a roller coaster of emotion.
danthewaterman
Imagine having to make coffee in the bathroom every morning, that's a roller coaster
theleafssuck
Beautiful! Do you do contract work?
danthewaterman
No, but I am always here to help if you have any questions.
ForgeoftheWordsmith
New owners in 50 years: "Oh look how drab, cheap, and out of style this is" Nice work, @OP it looks great all shiny and new!
lilhvnter
Looks amazing. Is that hitachi cordless drill really all you used for the whole project though?
danthewaterman
Haha no, but I'd say it touched 90% of the entire project.
asukara
I swear I saw this post before. Is this a repost or a follow up to an oc?
tomatoboy
Did you um...find how the bees got in?
danthewaterman
Yes, there was a small gap in the old window frame from the outside
realmdweller
My wife watches tons of HGTV. I showed her this and she said she likes it. So, I guess you done good OP.
danthewaterman
Haha thanks
OliverMcDairyQueen
You don't happen to live in upstate ny do you?
PickleBack1
No microwave?
danthewaterman
It's in a cabinet, we don't use it very often
misterbookman
Oh looks like we have fancy "we don't use our microwave that often" people here...
lulurafa
I only use my microwave to heat up the wax I use on my armpits. I'm not fancy, just don't cook at all
DeletedProfiles
Looking good OP ;)
danthewaterman
Thank you
Infomercial
Nice!
irrelephantcontent
We just picked out white cabinets and gray and glittery streaked quarts counters. Remodel starts in a few weeks. Nice to see a success!
danthewaterman
If you have any questions just shoot me a message
muckfichigan
Idk too much about framing, is that header tied in sufficiently enough? Just being supported by those 2 2x4s?
desman456
I'm a commercial construction inspector, I've done several wood inspections, typically all headers are supported by 2 members on each side.
desman456
So you're correct. It should have more support. I was looking to see if someone else questioned it.
muckfichigan
I've done a fair bit of odd job/demo work and it just looks wrong to me. Fortunately it should matter as it wasn't originally load bearing.
muckfichigan
Shame too, cause that looks like a nice piece of timber.
ErdogantheFalafelMan
Great work, but isn't all white kinda hard to maintain in the long run? Also, what happened to the fridge. It looked pretty good to me.
lemonlime
The fridge is in the after pics. They had to move it out of the kitchen to renovate or else the fridge will be damaged.
alabamaredhead
TBH I was mostly worried if @op was going to replace that light. Glad they did! It looks awesome!
BigMistakeBigHUGE
I have a super white kitchen and put in greyish marble looking quartz for that exact reason, pure white counters show EVERY crumb
spagattanadle
Username relevant.
mycatodinisbetterthanyourcatodin
I have darn counters and black appliances and they show all the dust and all the crumbs. Can't win
BigMistakeBigHUGE
If you have veined or marbled counters it helps hide the mess, super dark or super light 1 tone suck at hiding anything unfortunately :(
ridiculouspatronus
But but when your wiping down the counter wouldn't you want to get every last crumb??
BigMistakeBigHUGE
I'm a pretty big cook & entertain a ton so I knew my limitations on how immaculately clean it would be w/ everyday living, even tho I clean
cyno01
Yeah, my counters are shit laminate, but its patterned like dark marble, impossible to tell if its clean or not.
danthewaterman
All the surfaces are very easy to clean so it really hasn't been an issue. The fridge is still there.
clotblocker
Love IKEA cabinets!
giftkartoffel
How much did this cost you total?
theheatwave2001
He doesn't want to talk about that amount... If he did the labor himself, he saved at least 4k USD but kitchens are expensive to remodel
theheatwave2001
Nvm, he said 17k for everything in a different comment.
giftkartoffel
It looks great but that seems a little steep