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What a transformation and a great use of space!!

Congrats on your new kitchen-it is beautiful! You have done a great job blending your new kitchen into your home and making it look like very seamless.

Enjoy, kdlarue

Gorgeous!

I particularly like your counters, and I usually don't like granite. Very nice!

Drop dead gorgeous....I just about fell off my chair it is so beautiful!! Well done...I love everything you did.

Its really nicely done. I like the Wm Morris wallpaper mixed in with the contemporary. You've created a loft-like open living plan in a traditional house, which wouldnt work for everybody, but given your wish list in a limited footprint you carried if off really effectively.

What a fantastic renovation...it must be like living in a new house! And you have taken some really great pictures to show it off. Congratulations!

Beautiful reno! Just taking out the wall and using the whole space makes it look 10 times bigger. I love all your choices. Your cabinets are beautiful. I'd never guess they were stock cabs. But the showstopper for me is your gorgeous backsplash. I love the random width and it works so beautifully with your granite. Great job!

Wow!!! Beautiful job! Great job with the layout and great job with mixing all the elements. Your backsplash looks fantastic. Enjoy your new space.

Wow, wow, wow! Your new kitchen is warm, inviting and nicely laid out. I love how well you blended your kitchen's colors and material choices with your living room decor (love that mantel, fun wallpaper). All the wonderful natural light you have in your space now is a bonus. Great job!

Terrific! I love all your choices and the kitchen looks functional as well as beautiful. You must be so excited! Congrats.

Very nicely done and a great change!! Love how the backsplash and granite complement each other.

Really fabulous job and well worth all the hard work! The colors go together beautifully and the whole space looks great!

Wow! That is a wonderful transformation! It is so rich and warm and elegant. I love your cabinets, and that backsplash is just perfect in your space.

How is that even the same space? Wowzers. Great job and congrats!

This is one of the most dramatic renovations I have ever seen. It's amazing what you've transformed that kitchen into, particularly when you see the before pictures. I've had nearly that exact before kitchen and would never have dreamed that those afters would have been possible. And thank you so much for posting the budget, it at least makes me feel better about likely never seeing those kinds of results.

What an incredible transformation! It's so warm and elegant, yet obviously a working kitchen. I absolutely love your palette, your granite, and your backsplash. All your choices. Just beautiful!

It's so much fun to share the end result with other kitchen people -- out in the real world not everybody gets so excited about a kitchen. I was tickled pink reading your nice comments thinking "they get it!". Thanks so much for taking the time to respond -- thanks to for posting your own kitchens, mine would not have turned out as functional or nearly as fun as it did if you all had not posted your own ideas for me to "borrow." It takes a village. :-)

Thanks again for your nice comments.

WOW- I love it, your before kitchen looks like the kitchen in the house I grew up in. I can't believe it's the same space. Great job, enjoy it!!

Beautiful! Spectacular transformation. I have looked back and forth at your pics a few times now, admiring all the details.....
Congatulations!

You did a wonderful job transforming what looked like a small dark cramped area into an open, inviting and beautiful ktichen! Love it.

This is such a beautiful transformation. The open feeling is amazing, and your choices are awesome! This is one of my very favorite before / after threads because the "after" is so dramatic. What great pictures too. Enjoy your wonderful new space.

What a great space--nice job! It is so warm and cozy looking. I love the paint color in your living room--is it the same color you used in the kitchen? Would you mind sharing what color you used? Thanks! Enjoy your new kitchen!

Thanks so much for all the kudos, and one more time I really want to thank all the posters here, I think there's a lot of us "lurkers" out there who don't often post but read and use the tips/ideas/products that people post on this forum. I feel lucky to have found you all, what a great resource you all are. Thanks.

tanders: The paint color, which I actually hunted down a color that would match my Restoration Hardware Linen curtains (they're from the outlet so I don't have any idea what color they are, they don't have the colors on the outlet packages for some reason, at least these didn't): Behr77F-5 ("Wild Sage"). It's not as green as it appears in some of the photos, it seems to be pretty close to being RH's dark silver sage color.

Thanks again!

KRis

Thanks Kris--I was thinking that your drapes looked very much like a R.H. color! Thanks for getting back to me about the paint color.

While I was reading your story I kept looking at your before picture. Reminds me of my before with no counter space. Then I scrolled down to see the afters - WOW! Your new kitchen is amazing. Not only that, I would never have chosen the finishes you chose BUT I can see myself living there and being very, very happy with your kitchen. I love the windows and no uppers. Congrats on such a great job!
~Cindy

I love your kitchen! It's fantastic, love everything about it, great job!

What an amazing transformation!

I especially like the vent hood and backsplash. You gave the name of the backsplash, but not the vent hood. Do you know the brand of it, by any chance?

Also, I want to ask some newbie questions about some of the features you mentioned.... what do these terms mean?

Micro-drawer
Hidden storage above fridge
NeverMT on main sink

Can you hear it enough times...I think not! Your kitchen looks MAAAVELOUS, darling!

Hi! Love your kitchen! We're just starting this process and I wondered if you could tell me how you did your speakers with the airport express? We have 2 of them already and think we need to upgrade to air extreme. We wanted to add sound to our renovation too but it seemed pretty costly..would love to hear what you guys did.

Thanks

This is Mr. kris_ma. She asked me to step in to answer some questions:

eastbaymom:

The vent hood is from Bosch. I think Kris got it on Overstock.

The "micro-drawer" is a Microwave Drawer from Sharp that is in our Island. We really like having a microwave that isn't above the stove or taking counter space.

The NeverMT is a kit that allows us to hook up the sink soap dispensers to large jugs of soap so that we don't have to refill them.

And the hidden storage is an assignment that *I* got based on an idea that Kris picked up off this board (which is why she isn't allowed to frequent here any more :). The 3" trim board between the fridge and the over-fridge cabinet is installed on a piano hinge, so that it swings backwards to store large flat trays, placemats, etc. on top of the fridge without them being seen.

sandbox5:

Here's the story of the wired sound:

Kris found some Cambridge Soundworks Ambience 80 speakers, which install in the ceiling. We ordered four of them (2 in the kitchen and 2 in the living room) and got permission from our contractor to run some speaker wire while the ceiling was torn off, and I ran wiring from where we wanted to speakers installed over to the location of our pantry, where we planned to install the sound equipment. We also had the electrician install an electrical outlet inside the cabinet. After the kitchen was finished, we cut holes in the ceiling to install and wire up the speakers. Inside the pantry, we ran the other end of the speaker wires into an electrical box with speaker terminals.

For sound equipment, we got an Airport Express, which has a mode that allows it to stream music from iTunes. The hardest part was finding an amplifier that would fit inside the pantry and not generate too much heat. We ended up buying two small PylePCA3 amplitiers - one each for the kitchen and living room speakers. We put these in the pantry, along with the Airport Express and connected the audio out jack on the airport into the amplifiers (we had to use an RCA jack splitter to connect to both amps). We keep the amplifiers on, and can stream music from our laptops anywhere in the house. We also use a third party software program called Airfoil (for Macs only) that allows us to stream music from *any* application, not just iTunes.

I hope that helps.

thank you Mr. kris-ma! I love the idea of hidden storage.

Thanks so much...we were wondering how we could add sound and hiding it in our pantry is perfect. I am cutting and pasting to my reno file.

Wow...that is an amazing transformation. Great blend of space, products and colors. BEAUTIFUL!!!

Bumping an old thread because I have to compliment this kitchen. What a gorgeous symphony of wood & stone!

Very, very nice of you Onedogedie (luv your username, btw). Thanks. It's been great, we still enjoy it every day -- no lie. For those GW'ers still contemplating whether it (the mess, the money, the time) is worth it -- it is.

Kris (proud mom to "twodogedies")

Love your granite and your entire space is just gorgeous!