New Counters Are In

The moment we stepped foot in this house the first thing I thought was how amazing the kitchen was, but also how dark it was. I imagined some marble counters and white cabinets and open shelves and now, almost two years later, the only thing that changed was the lighting. But today its all starting to come together. I talked about our new Formica 180fx counters in a post a couple weeks ago and they were finally installed yesterday! Im not going to waste time talking about it, you have to see these beauties for yourself.

Before

After

You may have also noticed that the cabinet arrangement on the back wall changed (and one cabinet is different color than the others). We decided that, for backsplash purposes, it would look weird run it up around the cabinets on one wall but only under the cabinets on another wall. We also feel that these small cabinets dont get a lot of use from us because of their size so, we purchased a 3ft cabinet that will fit perfectly and allow for all the cabinets to be on one wall and give us more functional space. Confused? Heres the before of that area...

And after we removed the three cabinets...

And after the new 3ft cabinet was installed...

So much better right? And once we paint the cabinets you wont even be able to tell the color was ever different and,when we get around to doing the backsplash it'll run countertop to  ceiling on the window wall and countertop to bottom of cabinet on the stove wall which we think will look much better.

I am so motivated to get those cabinets painted now. I originally though white uppers and grey lowers but I think now we're going with the green lowers, white uppers and a white island. Stay tuned!!

--Jackie