After years of reimagining our kitchen structure and design, in January 2024 we started a brand new section of our kitchen rework following our preliminary $95 finances kitchen replace. Residing and entertaining right here for 5 years helped kind our concepts on how one can enhance the kitchen’s total operate and movement. So now that we’re (lastly!) at this section of our rework, we plan to work inside the sq. footage we’ve with a couple of budget-saving twists that I’m completely satisfied to share.
Present state of our kitchen // Listed below are a couple of earlier than and after photos of our kitchen after our first finances kitchen rework. You may also tour our house from the start and try the itemizing pictures earlier than we moved in.
Small Kitchen Hacks & Concepts
Hyperlinks to buy my kitchen
I really feel like we characterize most householders in that we don’t have a vast finances for house enchancment, and we solely do tasks as our finances and time permit. Understanding the nuance of your areas is such an essential issue when crafting a brand new room design, particularly in the event you’re transforming on a finances. That is very true for kitchens! Our circa-2005 home has a couple of quirks that we needed to repair the minute we took possession of the home, and we’re so completely satisfied that point has lastly arrived!
2024 Kitchen Rework Guidelines
Timeless to me means making a basic basis, modernized with paint & decor. Right here’s how we plan to create a timeless and basic kitchen that (we hope) will stay in fashion for years to return.
- Repair our laborious water (✅We put in Culligan with reverse osmosis)
- Spend money on high quality home equipment (✅Performed! We’re loving our KitchenAid merchandise)
- Tackle awkward areas (we moved the massive pantry to our laundry room, extra on this quickly!)
- Replace flooring all through the primary ground (✅Performed! Come see which flooring we selected)
- Add seating & broaden countertop house (aka, rip & change our island. Extra on this quickly!)
- Backsplash: I’m dedicated to beadboard on the partitions of the kitchen for a timeless look
- Repaint cupboards (presumably, I’m comfortable with grey in houses so long as it’s blended with hotter colours)
Fast DIY Kitchen Transformations // As an alternative of a full kitchen cupboard alternative, we’re relocating a couple of base cupboards that we salvaged from the island. The plan is to repaint if wanted, and change or replace {hardware}. We are also engaged on a supply for putting in glass cupboards. Paint is all the time my go-to for a fast and simple change in a kitchen!
We additionally plan to make use of beadboard wallpaper (or possibly the actual factor) on our kitchen partitions as an alternative of a full tile backsplash. Tile and lighting are inclined to age-out in a kitchen the quickest. So retaining these objects as timeless as doable are the purpose.
Luxurious Kitchen Upgrades // New flooring was put in this week! The ground has been the largest funding to date since we addressed your entire first ground, which was round 1,250 sq. ft at $2.60 a sq. foot. Upgrading our whole-home water system with Culligan was additionally mandatory since our water was so laborious. We felt we would have liked to do that earlier than investing in new home equipment. We’re additionally within the means of designing our personal island and we’ve already chosen quartz counter tops. Will share extra on all of this quickly!
Want Inspiration?
For 12+ years we’ve been updating our house on a very small finances. My 14-Web page information consists of:
- “6 Ideas: How you can Prioritize Your Initiatives”
- The FIRST factor I all the time deal with in each room
- What to do when you have got $0 to spend
- Recognizing “good bones” in each house
- What to do when you find yourself uninspired