Home Tour: Kitchen Before and After

It is with a heavy heart that we are selling our home.  So in that spirit I thought I would share with you all before and afters of our home.  Now I will admit that not all of my painting is completely finished, but the afters are drastic all the same.

I love how the previous owners made this room completely non functional by squatting a wood burning stove smack in the middle of this room.  There was no room for furniture around it, and it left soot on all the walls and ceiling.  So this was one of the first things to go.

Behind this wall was the existing kitchen.  When we knocked this wall down we more than doubled the space we could use for the kitchen.

Yikes!  The before kitchen wasn't much larger than a postage stamp, and if you will notice...no dishwasher.  This was pretty much my nightmare kitchen.

This was by far the smallest wall oven I had ever seen.  I didn't know they made them this small.  I'm pretty sure you would be hard pressed to fit a casserole dish in there, and as any mom of many can attest, casseroles are a must.  Another fun tidbit, the cook top was smaller than the hole cut into the countertop, and the side of the cabinet and wall surrounding looked like it had been torched.  Can we say grease fire anyone?

Mmm.  Chippy countertops.  These counters had a lovely coating of gross.

Needless to say this room ended up being a total gut job.  In fact the entire house was a total gut job.  It gave us a new blank slate.  Which was awesome because where the previous sink had been had had a longterm leak, and the entire floor had to be replaced.

If that was my nightmare kitchen then our finished product was my dream.  I'm so very sad to leave it behind, but when the Lord leads us somewhere else who am I to question.

So you can imagine how wonderful I feel looking at this knowing where we started.

I love my faucet.  It was a discontinued item...translation it was a cheapo clearance item!  It reminds me of a pump handle in old timey kitchen that still had to hand pump their water from the well.  I love my wall oven which will not only fit a casserole dish, but huge cookie sheets.

We mounted a big tv on the wall to use for entertainment, and homeschooling purposes as it doubles as a monitor for our computer.  The kitchen is usually where all of my parent friends would gather when we had get togethers.  The last few times we just sat, and watched funny youtube videos.  Apparently there is no age limit on enjoying funny animal videos.

And did I mention that this kitchen had two ovens?  It has been this bakers paradise.

Another shot of my amazing island. (read a post about it here)  How I will miss it.

Señor Hotness's older brother built us these fantastic faux door panels for us to paint as chalk boards. Also a bonus I'll miss.

The custom shelves for us to display my antique jar collection is a fantastic feature.

The icing on the cake however was and still is the crazy awesome penny counter-top. (check out a post about it here)  I will miss what Señor Hotness and I have done with this house, and how we transformed what the realtor tried to steer us clear of into such a beautiful home for our family.

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