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Kitchen Update

The kitchen has been 'finished' for a while, so I thought I'd update with some pictures. 

Here is just a reminder of what we had to work with... The floors were disgusting!


and after sanding, stain and a coat of polyurethane! 


The wall behind the fridge and stove is wrecked, so there was a board covering it, and we decided to pull it off and add beadboard. It will be easier to wipe down and add character. Thomas got to use his new compressor and nail gun.



Our beautiful new dishwasher. It is such an improvement over our old one. I don't have to hand wash dishes anymore! You can see the bottom of the cabinets here are unpainted because they were covered with three layers of linoleum and are now exposed.


 So we got the paint matched and added shoe moulding. It's amazing how much of a difference the little things can make.


Here is the disaster of a kitchen, but it was progress!


In these pictures, you can see the quarter round that we added on the baseboards. There was a gap between the floors and the baseboard, so we also added spray insulation to add a little bit of a barrier between us and the outside. We then added the quarter round.



We also added crown moulding. The moulding that was up was simply quarter round.


Here is a picture where you can see the difference between the two mouldings. I love it.


We buy new vent covers when we finish the floors and have these vents throughout the rooms that we have finished. I love the simplicity and the fact that they blend in and don't stand out.


Here is the only 'finished' picture I have of the kitchen so far. I'm in love.


Our kitchen plans still include:
-Hanging artwork 
-Adding white shelves over the counters to break up the blue walls 
-Build pull out drawers for several of the cabinets. This will allow for better use of the space in our kitchen 

Other plans:
-Paint the bathroom (again) and add larger crown moulding 
-Paint the ceiling and add crown moulding to the office 
-Paint the office closet and ceiling
-I hope to start working on the back entry way. We are going to paint the walls, strip down the woodwork and repaint, put in a new light fixture and hopefully make a built in key hook into the walls
-Continue working and hopefully finish the woodwork in the parlour 

Right now, we are just enjoying having a somewhat clean house and the fact that we are not in the middle of a project. 

Comments

  1. 1915 CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOWFebruary 12, 2014 at 1:00 AM

    You have done a fabulous job here. I love your cabinets and wood floors.

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  2. The Bois BungalowFebruary 12, 2014 at 5:08 PM

    Thank you! We have more plans for the kitchen, but those will happen when the budget is there (counters, backsplash, moving the stove, shelving, under cabinet lighting and much more).

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  3. 1915 CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOWOctober 11, 2014 at 11:37 PM

    I love going through your blog. It never gets old. Your top pic gave me a flash back of our hall floors as we uncovered the carpet. Ugh!! I was so glad to get that smelly carpet out of the house! I noticed you also have that same color as our house does on the wood trim. It's like a tan-plum-mauve ish color from the early 1990's. How is your boxed beams coming along?

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  4. The Bois BungalowOctober 12, 2014 at 11:37 AM

    Thank you! :) We had smelly carpet too! We spent several hours before we moved anything into the house tearing it all out. The trim color was horrid. I do not understand what the previous owner was thinking, but I say that about a lot of her choices.

    We have finished the beams in the dining room and parlor and just have some finishing touches before we can finish the ones in the living room. We are hoping to get motivated to get back on it this week. We have been doing a lot of outdoor projects lately and need to get back in the house.

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