Kitchen Makeover ~ .. Approximately $200!

Amy Ogden-Paparone
by Amy Ogden-Paparone
5 Materials
$200
2 Weeks
Medium

When we bought this house 3 years ago, I was in love with the size of the kitchen... and the bottom cabinets, that's it!

This is the old Kitchen from when we went to look at the listing before we bought it. Maple cabinets with an antique finish that looked like it was the home of chain smokers. All closed in and very dark.

Lights had to be on if you wanted to see anything. They even decorated the microwave with special fish stickers to hide the stains in the double glass on the doors! So nice of them yes? hahahaha

Looking from the dining room into the wee little doorway into the kitchen. icon Here in PA they're very into yellows and pea soup greens and burgundy and baby blue. Yep, those were the colors all over this house.

First thing we did was take down half of the wall. We have every holiday and I'm usually found in the kitchen. With it all closed up I was missing everything and feeling like Hazel the Maid! We found the wood for the top of this wall in the shop (the last owner left a lot of stuff in there and tons of wood) so it was Free!! Don't ya just love when stuff like that happens? icon

As you can see, a wee bit of light came in the back window. We have a big porch along the back of our house, and I love it, but that makes the kitchen dark and situated in the middle of the house now. A light has to be on at all times if you want to really see what you're doing. icon There is nothing better than natural light!

Also, you can see that the cabinets were installed so low, you could barely put anything under them! What were they thinking? So guess what we did! Yep! We ripped out every upper cabinet in the whole kitchen, and opened another wall.

Bye-Bye cabinets! See ya never! icon

Up with the open shelving. I don't have pictures of them going up because my bestest husband put them up while I was away. As well as the new range hood we got from Wayfair for $100. Starting to look brighter and more open already right?

These are really well made maple cabinets. I'm not sure why they wanted them antiqued to look like 50 people smoked cigarettes and cigars right next to them for 50 years, but oh well, to each their own! icon

Here's the left side finished! I'm in love!

Here's the left side open, now I can even look into the living room when fun stuff is going on! You never want to look when bad stuff is going on! hahaha

Here's looking into the "New Kitchen" from the dining room icon

and here is looking from the kitchen into the dining room! Can't post anymore picture because I'm at my limit.... please feel free to comment and or ask questions! I'll do my best to answer them.

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  • Cheryll Cheryll on Apr 12, 2019

    Where are your glasses and plates?

    And congrats on the beautiful makeover.

  • Athena Laird Athena Laird on Apr 19, 2019

    WS the wall you removed a weight bearing wall? I am looking at removing a wall and love your effect.

  • Cheryl Cheryl on Aug 31, 2020

    what kind of paint did you use on your cabinets and what was the prep.

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