The great kitchen do over. On the cheap. Or at least on the “not too expensive” …
Here is my kitchen. I like it, but it needs updating. Too cluttered, but I can fix that. Here is one side with the blown out window. (the gas between the panes frosted over so you can’t see out of it.) That’s definitely going to be replaced.
Here is the other side with the double ovens (love that) and stovetop. We have lots of cabinets. Love that too.
The walls are a golden yellow…going to tame that down some. Paint and time. We can do that.
Here is our glasstop stove top. We have a down draft exhaust because the original stovetop was a Jennaire. Broke all the time. Hated it. Replaced it with this. SuperGuy would love a gas stovetop, but…it would be really expensive to put one in, because we’d need to get one of those popup exhausts that sit behind the stovetop. They are as expensive as the gas stovetop itself. Still deciding on that one. This is on our maybe list.
The sink has to go. Old. Builder’s grade quality. Want one that’s deeper too. This one hardly holds a pan. This is on our definitely list.
Butcher block formica countertops. Very dated. Worn from 25 years of use. I’d like to replace them, but I canNOT believe how expensive countertops are. Granite? New formica with the thin rolled edges? Something else? We’d really like black counter tops with a bit of speckle or swirl to them. So this is also on our maybe list.
Originally these cabinets were dark oak. Really dark oak. I have a north facing kitchen. No sunlight. Very dark. So we painted the cabinets white. They are a greyish white though. I want them true white/white. Doable. Paint and time. Oh, and SuperGuy said he’d add a molding up at the top of them. Like a crown molding, I think. That will update them a lot. Might replace the pulls, especially if we replace the countertops with black.
We have a laminate floor. From when laminate flooring first came out. Not as perfected as it is now. You can see that it’s pulling apart at some of the seams. It doesn’t have the click/lock system that laminates have now. Drives me insane. Doubt if we’ll replace it though. It’s in perfectly good shape except for a few seams.
Ceiling fixture. Hate it. Not enough light in the kitchen. Any ideas for what might look good here? The light over the window (see first picture) has to go too. I think we’ll replace the light over the kitchen table too. It’s a ceiling fan that I hate the look of now. Which reminds me…we’re going to replace the kitchen table too. It went with my “50’s diner” look. I’m over that now… 😉
Well, I’ll update you with our progress as we go along. Slowly. Any tips or suggestions from anyone? Must haves? Positively don’ts? I welcome any help I can get with this!