Kitchen reno is almost done! Gotta share some pics even though its not finished

I'm just too excited. Everything has come together very well. A BIG THANK YOU to this board; I implemented almost every suggestion you made as we went.

Reminder, before this was a TINY kitchen and TINY dining room.

All that's left is the trim at the top, the cabinet doors, under counter lighting and outlets, a couple of shelves haven't been hung and i'm going to raise that 150 year old farm table up with castors so its island height.

So the H&G board suggested
- the can light size and # of cans (we went with 4" rings)
- second pasta filler above the coffee bar (GENIUS! its PERFECT. i've filled that coffee machine up about 10x in the last 3 days already),
- "hidden under counter outlets"
- under cabinet lighting
- "push button" garbage disposal in countertop
- a few other things i'm forgetting..

We doubled the room size by knocking out the wall and the wall between the 2 doorways, new french doors leading to the backyard patio, and you cant tell from this pic but that range hood is made from stucco.

the wife picked that dining room light up at restore for $2 i was skeptical but i like it now.

we have an unused wire in the ceiling where we could add one above the island (and unused switch already wired) if we need and there's an outlet in the floor in the middle of that table in case we ever decide to put in a real island and need to wire it.

anyway, we absolutely love it! that mineral green AGA range is a thing of beauty..i am still trying ot figure it out.

there's so much stuff we did here i can't even remember half of it..the guys were nice but did absolutely nothing without us telling them what do to. kept me up so many nights because i'm thinking i know NOTHING about designing a kitchen and just knew it was going to be a disaster.

all credit to the wife for having the cabinet guy extend his work to the other side of the dining room so the whole space is integrated and we used the same quartz for the 'buffet bar' or whatever you call it behind the table.

as for that big arse shelf between the doors? we had to hide the plumbing that was in the original wall and because we didn't really do uppers having that extra storage space is worth it. my only regret is that he didn't make that a tad bit smaller; i was thinking it was just going to be a small set of shelves.


Anyway, here we go:

BEFORE










AFTER