A New Kitchen!

When I bought our house I loved almost everything about it but the kitchen.  It's kind of funny I picked this house too because when we started looking I refused to budge on the kitchen.  But this house just felt like home when we walked into it.  I really can't explain it any better than that.  And it had potential.  I knew someday I could turn it into what I wanted.  I anticipated doing some remodeling within the first couple years but life has a way of getting in the way.  There were always other things to spend our money on and the kitchen could wait after all.  So this year we finally decided to dig in and get it done.  I was really scared of the mess and living for several weeks without a kitchen.  It really was as bad as I imagined too.  Maybe even a bit worse.  It was a huge hassle and I said multiple times during the process, "We should have moved.  It would have been easier."  And it really would have been.  But we love our location, yard and neighborhood so we really never considered it.  And now we will definitely never consider it now that I have things the way I want.  It was one of the projects that just kept getting bigger as we went and turned into remodeling the whole main level.  After all we might as well do this while we already have the mess...  You get the idea.  The good news is I love my new kitchen.  It's definitely unique.  We had quite the time deciding on wood for the cabinets.  As much as I like a lot of new kitchen's these days the trendy style just isn't my style.  So I think we ended up with a more classic look and maybe no one else would pick what we did but I couldn't be happier.  In the end, mahogany was the only wood Jason and I could agree on and I think it turned out beautiful!  Enjoy the before and after pictures.