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Kitchen Backsplash Update

Recently, we had our floors refinished and painted all of those rooms. After painting the kitchen, we decided that we would like a new backsplash.

We brought home lots and lots of different choices. Most were nice, but just too busy for us. We love subway tiles and love travertine, so when we found this tile, our decision was made.

This picture (kind of) shows the old 4" granite backsplash.

There was lots of patching to make the walls perfectly smooth.

Some sections had too many cutouts to use the mesh pieces. This is where each piece was individually hung on the wall.

It took my husband one evening during the week and the weekend and he was done. Yes, he's a keeper!

Our kitchen isn't very big, but is definitely workable for us. I'm thrilled with it and so thankful for such a talented husband!

Thanks for your visit!

Pam

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New Kitchen Cabinets

We don't have a huge kitchen and had a desk area that we weren't really using, so we decided to do a bit of a remodel. We really wanted more storage and I'm lucky enough to have a husband who can make just about anything!

Here's what it looked like before. It was very nice and and good place to put some collectibles, but was not being utilized as much as it could have been.

I have an office right near the kitchen, so really didn't need a desk area right here.

So out the desk and upper cabinet went to Habitat for Humanity's Restore for someone else to use...

And into the garage my husband went to start creating a new one.

His favorite part of it--easy access wine storage!

Adding new crown moulding. I am so impressed how he matched everything so well to the existing cabinets.

There's actually some extra room on the shelves right now. I'm so happy with it.

Thanks for your visit!

Pam

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Rotate it, Rebuild it and a Roomy Kitchen is Created!

We had a lovely island, but it was too crowded in our kitchen! The island was pushed into the kitchen too far for my taste. I'm guessing it's because the prior owners wanted a big table in this area too. We have a dining room, so didn't need another big table in here. If the refrigerator door or dishwasher door was open, there was no way anyone was getting by them! I've been told that a good distance between counters is 39". Well, the before distance was about 28"--unacceptable!

Over the holidays when our son was home from college, he and my husband picked up the island and rotated it 90 degrees. OMG, it was so much better already! I finally had room to walk around it in the kitchen! So even though we were just 'trying it out' and my husband had every intention of rotating it back to where it was until he could build a new one, I was having none of that! Yes, when I had to get in the drawers, they were on the opposite side of the dishwasher, but that extra room was heavenly and it was only for a couple of weeks. Here is a picture of the old island turned the new way.

A couple of weeks ago my husband built a new base. We decided to try our best to re-use the granite top as granite tops can get expen$ive! Luckily it all worked out! He also re-used a lot of the beadboard and the feet. We now have gained an extra drawer and a pull out for the recycle bin. We also have an area for stools. By rotating it, we gained 14" on each side of the island!