We finally started a blog to journal our kitchen remodel process! We’ve already been working on the kitchen, off and on, since Thanksgiving, so this first post will be a quick introduction of our project.
To begin: Here’s a couple photos to show the kitchen as it was when we first viewed the house, back in October. You can see that it is very, uh, cozy, with dark red cabinets, a dropped ceiling, and counters on all four sides of a nearly perfect square. It’s also lacking a dishwasher, but with so many corners and so little length on each side, there’s nowhere to put one.
Perhaps you’d be surprised to learn that the kitchen was actually a big reason we even looked at the house in the first place. Many houses we saw in our preferred neighborhoods had a tiny kitchen at the back of the house, walled off from all other rooms. “Open (or open-able) kitchen” was one of Sara’s main criteria. Furthermore, we preferred a kitchen that hadn’t been updated in a while so that we could justify customizing it ourselves, as opposed to a brand new kitchen that didn’t fit us well. This kitchen, small as it is, met both criteria. Combine this fact with the amazingly good condition of the house as whole, and we were able to make a quick decision and put down an offer in time.
Initially, our plans for how we might change the kitchen were vague. Alex wanted a dishwasher. We wanted to pull up the floor and dismantle the dropped ceiling, though we didn’t know what might be underneath in either case. Sara hoped to make it feel more spacious, even if adding actual space proved impossible. It quickly escalated into, “Let’s just take the whole kitchen out and start from scratch.”
Our apartment lease doesn’t end until August, so we’re not planning to officially move to the new place until the kitchen is finished, hopefully sometime this spring. We’ll try to keep this blog updated with our progress in the meantime!
