Fixin' My Kitchen : The After

{see details and sources here}

This might be a little anti-climactic since, yes, it IS almost a year since we started this renovation but this is honestly the first chance I have had to take pictures and post about them.  I actually took pictures a month or so ago, but I am no "stager" and ended up cleaning the kitchen a little too well and the pictures just looked so stark - and sad - and unlived in - and not real.

I'm not going to take pictures with dirty dishes in the sink or anything but I much prefer real life pictures.  So here is a brief synopsis of the kitchen, followed by pictures, refrigerator art and all {my favorite}.

If you have been following my kitchen renovation, here, here, here, here and here, you might have seen that the renovation not only changed the layout of the kitchen, but of the back entry/laundry room as well.  Where the back entry used to be through the laundry room, now we have a back foyer space.  This is where 99% of people enter our house so this was a very big deal to us.

There was a large area of wasted space in our Master Bedroom that we reconfigured and created a combined pantry/laundry room.  I love that the entry to the Master {who is still in great need of completed-decoration} is in the same hallway space as this room - so practical for laundry purposes.

{pantry/laundry is door on the left, kitchen is directly behind the picture}

Overall, in the clearly materialistic sense of life, this kitchen has been one of the most wonderful things we have done for ourselves.  Our evenings are so much more of a joy, sharing the space between the kitchen {where I usually am} and the den {where Stephen usually is}.  Everything has a specific space and use and function.  I have more than three drawers total {in fact, almost my entire kitchen consists of drawers now!}.  There are still areas left to tweak - rug/runner between sink and range, back door to be painted, bench cushion to be made for back entry, art to be hung - but we are loving every minute in this new space and how it has transformed everything from food preparation to cleaning to storage to entertaining.  And yes, we both LOVE the open shelves.  I don't think I will ever go back. :)  I hope to follow up this post with reviews on different items/finishes/products we used for this renovation.  No promises as to when that will be, so for now, here are the pics!