Kitchen

Creating a nice kitchen from three small spaces

When we first bought the house we had to do something to make the kitchen usable. We put in some basic cabinets and a sink and used it that way for many years. After many hours of researching kitchens on Pinterest and Houzz I had the kitchen I wanted in my head. Finely, in 2015 we started the final kitchen redo.

The original kitchen had a screened porch on one end and a small lean-to porch on the other. We incorporated these two small spaces into the over all kitchen layout to add a small sitting room and a nice pantry/cat room.

I wanted the kitchen to look, at first glance, like it could be original. I antiqued cherry cabinets by distressing them and painting them with black and cream milk paint. Instead of just adding the white subway tile back-splash in the customary place, we added it all the way around the room half way up the wall to give it a vintage look.

I had a hand painted hutch that wouldn’t fit into the kitchen when we started designing the layout. I really wanted it in my kitchen so I incorporated it into the cabinets, I love the final look of it.