Happy day, my friends! It's time for the kitchen reveal - yaaaayyyy!! If you've been on this journey with me, you know it's been a while. Of course, most renovations take at least twice as long as you expect them to and this one was no different. However, the wait was worth it. We LOVE how it's turned out. It is so much brighter and airier now. It really feels like a completely different kitchen, even though the footprint didn't change at all. When I look at the before pictures now, I can' hardly remember it being like this. In case you are new to the blog or would like a refresher, here is a photo of how it looked before we started.
Not a bad kitchen, by any stretch of the imagination, just a very dark one that really wasn't my style at all. So grab your cup of coffee or tea (or margarita if you're so inclined) and enjoy the picture show! As I go through the post, I will put in information on vendors, contractors, paint color, etc. I have not been paid in any way, so no bias here!
| We opted to tile the wall from floor to ceiling. LOVE it! The tile is a honed marble subway tile. I found a great deal through The Builder Depot. I did a lot of research. I mean, to the point that I was annoying the heck out of hubs, ha! He pretty much told me to do what I thought was best (uh, ok, right on, if you insist, haha)! They had the best looking product for the best price, even including shipping from Georgia to Oregon. It was a little scary ordering without seeing it, but they do have free samples, so that's a good route to go before placing the big order. |  |
If you look at the pictures above and below, you can see there is a good mixture of color, from bright white to soft gray and a few beigeish tones. My tile guy, Rick from Square 1 Tile, did a really good job mixing the colors up, so there weren't big areas of blocked color. He also did an amazing job on the window wrap. It took him longer than he anticipated to do this, but he did really great work and I am really happy with the results. If you are in the Portland/Salem area and looking for a tile guy, message me and I'd be happy to forward on Rick's contact to you.
 Love how well the window wrap turned out!! |  Oh look, there's the resident photo hound, errr, feline, I mean. "Baby, get out of my shot!" was said quite a bit today! |
 |  I really enjoy having fresh flowers in the house. I'm not the best at arranging them, but they still look pretty! |
 Dark, dreary... |  Bright and Happy!! |
 |  The sink. What can I say. Well, honestly, I love the way it looks, but am not super happy with the function. I'm not sure if it's the faucet I picked out or the sink being undermount, but I am constantly cleaning up water that has splashed up on to the counter. We have very hard water here, so it's a constant battle and it's just a little frustrating that we can't seem to keep the water in the sink where it belongs. I am contemplating a different type of faucet, thinking that might help cut down on the splash. I'll let you know down the road where that goes. She sure does look beautiful, though, right!?! |
We have lived with the counters for a couple of months now and they are awesome! For the first couple of weeks I was really paranoid about staining them, which I guess was kind of silly. I really did do my homework and I knew this was the right product for us. Hubs is pretty hard on a kitchen, so we knew we needed something very durable. We've spilled pomegranate juice, tomato sauce, oil and who knows what else and have had no problems cleaning them up. If you are interested in specific information on this product, please check out my week 4 renovation post. We worked with David Foster at NW Cabinet Source. They have quite a few samples and different products to check out.
You can see from the before and after photos that we had work done on the peninsula to make it stand out more. Before it was just there, no interest to it. If you are interested in having some woodwork done by a pro, please let me know and I can get you in contact with Samuel of Restoration Counselling (he is a woodworker AND a counselor, not a bad combination for people going through a renovation, haha). For more specifics on the peninsula please check out my week 5 reno post.
The paint color for the bottom cabs is Sherwin Williams Tidewater. The uppers is a Benjamin Moore color called Cloud White. We contracted this job out to a very dear friend of my mom's. Her name is Linda and she is a spitfire!! Extremely likable, very funny and a very skilled painter. I would love to be able to say it was all me, but I knew there was no way I could handle that job on top of everything else. She did a great job and I am very happy I didn't have to deal with it myself, ha!
The paint color for the bottom cabs is Sherwin Williams Tidewater. The uppers is a Benjamin Moore color called Cloud White. We contracted this job out to a very dear friend of my mom's. Her name is Linda and she is a spitfire!! Extremely likable, very funny and a very skilled painter. I would love to be able to say it was all me, but I knew there was no way I could handle that job on top of everything else. She did a great job and I am very happy I didn't have to deal with it myself, ha!
We had the interior of the glass door cabinets painted in the Tidewater color. I haven't finished loading them up with my pretties yet, but I'm thinking about painting it white instead. I have a lot of pretty blue glass and I think it would look better against a white backdrop. I do love those contrasting colors, though! Decisions, decisions...
 | I picked up these bistro chairs at World Market. I think they match perfectly! I love the natural wood color against the stone and the painted wood.  |
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I picked up these pretty ice tongs in Provence last year and the rolling pin last weekend at the Portland Antique and Collectibles Fair.
I hope you enjoyed the kitchen tour. I know it's been a long time comin'! Thank you, as always, for stopping by and keeping up with me. To those of you who have been checking in to make sure I didn't fall off the face of the planet, thank you, so much appreciated! You know who you are!! :-)
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