Kitchen in the making..

The kitchen came as a surprise - it was not in the plan...well not in the plan a month ago. I just happened to be cruising craigslist after Jason and I had yet another talk about the kitchen its design, the budget, blah, blah, blah.  I had always felt deep down that going and buying a kitchen (even a semi-inexpensive in stock at a home improvement store) would be "cheap".  Not meaning cost wise - or quality wise.  It was just that in my mind we had done this amazing job of repurposing, yard sale finding, habitat shopping and down right dumpster diving for deals.  How could I "buy" something.



 

I came across this post.

 

The post was several days old, I thought for sure they would be gone. I sent the email and waited - to my delight the owner responded the next morning that they were still available - one day later they were in our garage! 

It  is the steal of the century (or at least we think so). We got 20+ cabinets, granite counter tops, sink, garbage disposal, refrigerator, wall oven and wall microwave.

SCORE. SCORE. SCORE

 

The only problem (well for Jason anyways), semi-redesigned the kitchen. Since the granite was obviously already cut for the previous configuration we had to stay pretty much the same. That meant extending the floor, building out a wall, adding a wall and moving the half wall.  Oh how Jason loves me. Ha.

 

The kitchen use to look like this....sorry for the birthday party photo but it was the quickest one I could find of what it use to look like..

 

Basically the wall use to come straight out and then a straight half wall. The kitchen before was pretty square. We use to have ikea cabinets hanging in front (see below).

 

 

 Now it looks like this...

 

 

 It is kind of hard to tell here, but the half wall got a little shorter and it angles back..also the wall coming out is longer and angled. See below for the "in-progress" photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also I will not apologize for the photos, this Garome is being loved and lived in while the WHOLE process is happening. 

We still have alot to do but I feel so lucky to have a "real" kitchen again. We lived out of storage containers for a whole year.  My only counter top during that whole time was a piece of plywood covered in contact paper.