After a little over a year in our "new"house, we found ourselves with a broken dishwasher, barely working cooktop, and the wonderful wall oven that would not even fit my cookie sheets. Time to rip apart the kitchen!
Once we realized that the majority of our budget had to go toward appliances, we got creative. Our biggest savings...reusing all our cabinets. Even though they were not my style, they were in good shape (except the sink cabinet, which had to be replaced due to a nasty leak).
Since our plan was to reconfigure the kitchen, we had to come up with a new layout using our existing cabinets. Sort of like real world Jenga, and it worked! We took them all down and reused them in completely different ways. The set above was moved from the corner to the island.
The hardest part of this operation is finding the color you want. I just love those $3 samples from Home Depot. They are an inexpensive way to play with paint colors. We had many versions sitting all over our downstairs until we decided this was the combo we liked best. The winning color is a mix of Behr Ultra Pencil Point from Home Depot and Valspar Glaze from Lowe's. The cabinets were then slightly distressed with sandpaper and finished with a Flat Polyurethane.
Looked all over for knobs...found these at Target. They are perfect, with a pewter look, and a great price!
Just LOVE the color with the slate floors and recycled barn wood countertops. Of course, the slate floors and countertops have stories of their own. So, our kitchen remodel is to be continued...
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