I love your kitchen! I am especially jealous of your marmoleum floor. I would love that flooring in our kitchen, but we have original fir floors that I can't/won't rip out. But marmoleum is my favorite kitchen floor material if I were able to start from scratch.

I think your cabinets are great, and I really like the unfitted kitchen look. Congrats!!!

Wow, really, really nice: Functional, personal, and good-looking!!!
It may not be "a kitchen for everyone," but it also sure doesn't look like everyone's kitchen.

Love the floor, island, custom cabinets, counter tops, clock.

How much work was painting with cabinet coat?

How do you like the waist-high oven? This was done a lot if mid-century kitchens but seems to have disappeared.

That looks really nice. Really a creative use of budget and materials. Congrats!

I like your innovative solution and definitely seems reasonable for older kitchens littered with doorways on the long wall (as they all seem to be). Very smart to have the taller backing behind the stove.

From the first photo it seemed the stove was directly opposite the fridge but they seem to be staggered? How do you find the traffic flow? How do you like having the DW opposite the cleanup sink?

I am an everyday lurker, not so frequest poster.
But today I had to post. I just looove your kitchen, something about it speaks to me.

Absolutely love it! The clock is the ultimate perfect thing! You did a wonderful job and I love how it fits the house and is UNIQUE!

Thanks everyone.
Susie- the rest of the old part of the house has the original fir floors, which are beautiful. I won't get rid of those either!
Cabinet Coat goes on like a dream. I am an avid painter and it is the best paint that I have ever used. Very durable.
Range is offset from the fridge and the island is skinnier in front of the fridge too. The size of the walkways works really well for parties and even with my husband still walking by me while I am working there! (He can't be trained, but is too adorable to give up.)
Pal, the island is the normal height and so the range is too. My only complaint there is that the slide in range has the controls flat on the top of the range, which causes the burners to be sited further away from the front of the range. It takes some getting use to.
The dishwasher in the island works very well and was really the only option. I actually love this set up. The cabinets (kitchen was originally unfitted) were built in the 1920s or '30s, and are not as deep as today's cabinets and neither is the countertop. That gave us a bit more aisle room, but wouldn't allow a dishwasher to be installed by the sink even if I was willing to modify the cabinets for it. This kitchen is really fun to work in and the layout is perfect.
Those cabinets are wonderful and I refused to make changes to them. Here is a better picture of them.

The closed door way with the chalkboard is going to be opened up and we will build a vintage-looking booth in there. The space behind the door is now a big junk collector. This is next year's project.
Diane

I meant the wall oven next to the refrigerator. Is that conventional microwave or speed oven or convection ?

Love it. I love creative thinking and unconventional solutions. Thanks for sharing how it works for you.

Oh sorry Pal. It is an Advantium speed oven. It serves as a second oven and a microwave. We are impressed with it. It is high like that because my husband is 6'4" and we compromised with its placement. That height works well for both of us. We have the coffee maker, tea kettle and all the supplies stashed there too. That cabinet cost, I think, $12 and is really nice. I love the deep drawers.

That is adorable. I love how your creatively using what you had and making it even better!
It's so bright and cheery too!

Looks great! LOVE the clock!

This is well done. It looks functional. It looks like it totally fits the house. And it's cheery!

Are those old windows hanging from the ceiling over the tall cabinets perpendicular to the frig wall? I like this detail.

Is it a skylight giving the space so much light?

Love it! Finally a white kitchen with loads of personality. I would smile every morning walking into that fun space. I would just love to work in that kitchen.

Jennifer, I got the windows from the recycle center. I don't like open concepts and needed a break between the family room (1987 addition from PO) and the kitchen. And yes, there is a skylight there. I couldn't believe how much light that brought into the space - it was there when we moved in, but the breakfast room didn't benefit from it much. The ceiling in that part was opened up to the roof when the addition was done.
Thanks to you all for sharin'- I appreciate the comments!
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I really love your kitchen, and I'm VERY impressed with your DIY skills!

What a beautiful space that oozes personality! It is obvious you put a lot of thought into the layout. You did a great job! I love it!

Now that's MY kind of kitchen! I found out nothing sticks to Marmoleum. I have it in the breezeway. If I would have seen your design, I might have done mine differently. But I'm happy with what I have.

Such a good kitchen! Those floors and all the vintage every thing! I didn't think they made Cabinet Coat anymore. I've never used it but good to know you liked it. Everything looks GREAT!

Hooray for unique kitchens! Yours is lovely. It's fantastic that you were able to repurpose so many pieces. Thinking outside the standard box is a breath of fresh air. The function of the layout looks like it works like a dream. Well done! : )

How fabulous!
I love the balance of color and light. Your fix-it solutions are right up my alley. It's amazing what you can find and make with a deep breath, a good piece and a saw. :)

I am a huge Cabinet Coat fan, too. Talk about incredible paint. It dries as had as a rock. All my trim (when I get it) and woodwork is going to be with that product.

A agree. A white kitchen with character. You have achieved a beautiful look.

Excellent job, congratulations! You worked hard and put a lot of thought into it, and it shows. So glad you did not change out the cabinets, those are AWEsome!

Thanks again everyone; I am so glad you "get" my vision. I am hoping that by upgrading this kitchen, that the next owners of this house will not rip out those old cabinets. They have butterfly hinges and lots of character! I so believe in recycling, and upcycling and would rather use our money for supporting programs we care about. Of course I love the hunt for items to recycle and we both enjoy working on the house. In our big family home, I started out by hiring trades people but quickly realized that I could really get exactly what I wanted by doing it myself. Thus, the start of a new adventure. CF Freeman knows what I am talking about. It is so gratifying learning new skills and putting them to use.

I would love to have had a vintage stove in there and in fact bought a deco Chambers stove. In the end, I just could not make it work in the space; they are so large and it had a high back piece which would not fit in.

We put all the appliances and anything else useable that was in the space pre-reno out on the curb and they were picked up by families in the area. That makes me happy.

My husband's favorite pieces in the kitchen are the popup Mocket outlet and the Rev-a-shelf pull-out spice rack. And he loves the beverage area. They are the things he shows off.
Diane

love that kitchen! it is awesome that you kept the original cabinets and incorporated new instead of gutting the whole thing! you did a fabulous job!

You really wowed me. This is such a well thought out and green kitchen. Absolutely love it.

I sucked up layout ideas from this forum for a couple of years and I don't think I could have come up with such a workable plan if I hadn't.

Thanks to you all.
Diane