Kitchen Renovation Day 2

Well, our contractors just wrapped up the second full day of the kitchen renovation.  And guess what?  We have cabinets again!  Yes, they might lack doors, drawers, paint, hardware, etc., but at least they exist!

So, here's the rundown for today:

• Removed the cabinets above and beside the refrigerator
• Removed the existing drawer fronts
• Built the new lower cabinet boxes
• Built new cabinets above and beside the refrigerator
• Added wood to the top of the lower cabinets where the granite will sit
• Started building the drawer fronts and doors

 

As you can tell from the picture above, we have changed the layout of the bottom cabinets.  We will now have a diagonal corner sink cabinet and the dishwasher will sit directly next to the sink.  Apparently, it's an inconvenience to have to take a step to load the dishwasher.

 

Here's a close-up of the corner sink cabinet.  To the right of the sink, we will have a trash drawer.  The other two bottom cabinets will just be normal with a drawer on top and cabinet door on bottom.



 

Speaking of sinks, how do you like this bad boy?  Isn't it pretty?

We now have a built in refrigerator.  Both upper cabinets now extend all the way up to the ceiling, and the cabinet above the refrigerator comes all the way out.  Before it sat in the back and was pretty much inaccessible.

We are also leaving the diagonal cabinet on the end as open shelving with no doors.

 

Here are our paint choices.  The cabinets, backsplash, and trim will all be a bright white.  The walls will be a creamish color - more specifically, Sherwin-Williams Clean Linen.  We will have an accent of turquoise, Sherwin-Williams Hazel.

 

Here's the start to our drawer fronts.  The drawer fronts will be plain and the doors will be shaker style.

Now that construction's moving along, I've started looking at decorating accessories.  After all, we will have quite a bit of open shelving now.  Check out my Pinterest page to see what I've come up with so far.