kitchen: before and afters

we bought our house about a year and a half ago. it was built in 1954 and had very little, if any, renovating done since, as you can tell from the before pictures...

these pictures were taken after we'd ripped up the yucky tile, before installing the wood flooring. 

after a lot of hard work we now love our kitchen!

we painted stripes on the wall entering into the kitchen

my favorite thing about the kitchen is it feels so light and airy, thanks to these giant windows opening to the front porch.

 we added more canned lights in the kitchen for added lighting

 the flooring we added matches the original wood flooring that we refinished throughout the rest of the house

 all the veggies are from our garden :)

we left all the cabinetry the same just painted it a fresh white, added new hardware and also added the beadboard (kind of hard to see in the photo) as a backsplash

more beadboard by the kitchen table. i knew i wanted a blue kitchen and we love the blue we chose although it is showing up different colors in all these photos. also, added some shelving for decorations, recovered the chair seats in a green apple color and painted the kitchen table gray.

 new sink and faucet

 our fridge and all appliances were replaced when we moved in, they were old and gross before.

one of our favorite places in the house, and not just because it's filled with food :)