Kitchen Makeover!

I would like to invite you to come along with me as I start from the beginning redoing my kitchen.  Jeff just told me last week (5/98) that we would gut it and start over.  We have new appliances and really only need to buy a new sink/faucet and new cabinets.  My friend Peggy just put on a formica counter top in blues that I love, but Jeff says we will go with granite.  I saw a pink granite that I liked - so we will see how much it costs! 

Most of you dream of creating a kitchen - it makes me shutter.   I do not like to cook and I hate woodgrain.  So where does that leave me?   Stainless steel?  Formica cabinets?  If it were up to me I would do it all without cabinets, but then we must have them.  So I have decided to use a white washed wood (depending on the wall treatment I use, I may wash the wood green or blue).   We have NO natural light in our kitchen, but we are considering a skylight.   We have installed a 3 unit spotlight in place of the old fixture. In spite of my mother's love of stainless steel sinks - I am going with a porcelain one (sorry mom!)   I am going to move our refrigerator over to the wall where the pantry (closet) now is and we will make a pantry in the 4½' area where the fridge now sits.  These pictures are from my cheap 3-D home design program, Visual Home.  It does the job.  Below is the propsed floor plan.  I will not put up the sofit above the cabinets & leave that open as a shelf.  Between the kitchen & the family room we will redo the bar that sits there now, adding rounded end shelves.

Well, this is just the beginning & my first thing to do is figure out how many cabinets we need, how much a new sink & faucet will cost, how much & what kind of counter top to get, we will continue our blue ceramic tile into the kitchen (Jeff did the laundry room - it looks great!).  So keep an eye on our page & watch - see what we end up with - hopefully - by July 98 it will be done.  Soon there will be nothing left for Jeff to do & he will have to tackle our master bath suite!  See ya - I'm off to the hardware store!
Proposed shoping list:
1 Mock Cabinet Hood w/ Square-raised Door
1 Blind Corner-Left, Base Cabinet
2 Drawers over 2 Doors, Base Cabinet
1 Base Cabinet w/ 4 Equal Square-raised Drawers
1 Door and 1 Drawer, Base Cabinet
1 - 2 Drawers over 2 Doors, Base Cabinet
1 Rounded Left End Cabinet w/ 3 Open Shelves
1 45-Degree Corner, 1 Glass Door, Wall Cabinet
1 - 1 Glass Door, Wall Cabinet
2 - 2 Glass Doors, Wall Cabinet
1- 1 Glass Door, Wall Cabinet
Triple Kitchen Sink
countertop
materials for pantry - I am going to use wire shelving
ceramic tile ($.99/sq ft) ceramic tile? for back splash...

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