Absolutely love the color of your lowers. I can't believe (I do believe you) you only spent 4k. What a lovely transformation. The new floor looks great!

Thanks! I will have to add stuff up and see. The only think I can't get a price on is all the paint I bought and didn't use. LOL I would pick a color, paint with it, decide I didn't like it and try again! Needless to say, we are doing renovations where I work, and I have already painted 3 offices with my leftover paint. Hahaha

Very nice. Love the backsplash. Wish we had more of these DIY facelift reveals!! Thanks for sharing.

You did a great job on a lot of work. The change of flooring is wonderful and warms up the kitchen. Love you Benjamin Moore paint picks: the CL with the Wrought Iron and your pulls look really sharp. I also like the Merola Tile Crackle Square Azure in your back splash. Congratulations on your kitchen!

Nice job! I love your backsplash - you really put some thought into the design, it looks like, and it was executed perfectly!

Good for you. The additional cabs blend in very well, and the shelf addition is clever. Bet the extra countertop makes a huge difference! And I really like the rounded over edge on the counter.

Did you install the floor yourself? If so, how hard was that?

thanks everyone for the kind words! i am not very creative and i thought the back splash was a little amateurish! LOL i have never done tiling before and really had no clue. I didn't want to go with white tile and had my Sonoma Ceramic and Tantrum tile all picked out, but didn't want to spend $1,000 on it. I was excited when I found the merola tile that looked like the tantrum!

Yes, I installed the flooring myself. It was easy! i tried to install laminate once, and that did not go well so I wanted vinyl. Plus, I have a dog with bad rear legs and after 2 surgeries, didn't want something that he might slip on easily. I plan on removing the nasty mauve carpeting in the dining room and hallway and continuing the same flooring and then just replacing the carpet in the living room.

Except for the painting, everything was kind of new to me. I watched alot of videos on you tube! LOL I was nervous about ordering the doors because measuring isn't one of my strong suits, but it was easy and I love the blum hinges. I had to get a new drawer made by Barker too and I even measured that correctly! The 3 drawer base cabinet needs new drawers and fronts. I glued trim on them to make them look shaker style for now.

I also had to replace all the trim because the previous owners really left it a mess, plus I couldn't match it. That resulted in the need for a mitre saw for my birthday! LOL The mitre box and hand saw wasn't cutting it. LOL

There are flaws...but I am proud that I did it myself! :)

Very very nice! Great job.

I think I mentioned this before on a thread about your floor, but I so love your sink cabinet! It looks so retro (in a good way;)) I wonder how easily it could be duplicated...hmmmm..

Really like the color of your lower cabinets with the new floors. You did a great job and have lots of creative ideas. Congrats on a job well done!

Bravo! I love budget make-overs. Especially when someone has made excellent choices that look much richer than what was spent. Your tile work is lovely for a beginner! If there are any flaws, they sure don't stand out to me. Love your choice of counter and that you gave yourself more counter and storage space.

As someone who is also doing a DIY budget remodel including buying my additional cabinets at a Habitat store, this gives me hope that my end result may also match my vision. I'm at a year and I'm sure we'll need at least another year to finish so you were quick, too! :)

Enjoy your charming, more functional kitchen!

Kathy, you should be so proud of yourself- you did it yourself! It's amazing what you you accomplished with $4K. And your mitre saw is a great bonus to continue your DIY throughout the house! Congrats and enjoy!

You did a fantastic job! Your colors are great, and that backsplash!! How can you claim a lack of creativity?

I also did a DIY refresh on my kitchen, and love seeing others. Thank you for sharing it :)

That's amazing!

Nice job! It looks quite a bit more functional in the after.

Modest updates don't get enough attention, and they are the ones I really like, because they can make the kitchen work better.

And I love your stove. I have a similar one from LG. Worth every penny.

Your kitchen was similar to mine, and I bet a lot of people that visit here too, so thank you for posting!

I think you did a good job on the tile -- love how you did the accents. And your color choices are lovely, too.

I can relate to keeping the dog out of the cats' food -- I had to move their dishes to the basement and install a baby gate!

It's beautiful! I love seeing this DIY makeovers. So inspiring!

thanks everyone! I'm glad to be finished with my part! Can't wait to get new doors, a new light fixture and have the electrician come! On to painting other parts of the house! LOL

Very clever! I like the shelf and your backsplash looks great. Very nice floor. Great new look.

"Wish we had more of these DIY facelift reveals!! "

I do too! I think a lot of kitchens out here are like yours and could use just the facelift to gain a 2nd life for us. not that many really (tho it seems it on here) can afford to gut a kitchen (add on, take down walls) and start from scratch. If I had the money, I don't think I have the strength to survive it.

the new doors and paint make just world of difference! Love how you did the shelf below the prev over fridge cabs - it looks made to be that way (ok, it was!). The shelf is so useful too. I also think those 2 oven stoves are the smart way to go these days if you're going the stove route.

I really like the countertop too - and that edging. I'll have to look on the website to see how it looks in a square blob... I've check both Wilson and formica sites and don't remember one like that. If you run across the cost of that, can you post it? Maybe I'll rethink my decision to stay with the old, old white formica on which I can at least see the ants when they come in. I decided it wasn't worth spending the $s to get new formica where they could hide from me in a pattern and color. Yours isn't a lot of color or pattern. I have about as much counter space as you had before your redo.

You did a great job on it for that amount of $s. It'll be so much nicer to cook in, clean up, walk thru...

love the story of the dogs and cat food. I, too, have had that problem in yrs past. we sure jump thru hoops for our furbabies. hey, where are yours? They didn't photo bomb? Do they match your 'new' kitchen? when you post a pic of your new lighting... post them too.

don't worry about little flaws, as we find out on here, you can hire someone to do the work, pay lots of money and still end up with flaws. You've gained a lot of experience in doing this!

Kathy - from one DIYer to another - I am hugely impressed. Especially since most of my DIY portion consists with coming up with the idea(s) and material(s) and then asking DH to do the actual work. And even then, it takes forever. I'm in awe of you doing it all by yourself. Great, great job. Love the color you chose for the lower cabinets and simple shaker doors. Please keep posting your projects!

Great job! Creative & well executed! Kudos!

Wow…you did an awesome job. Well done! I know you will love cooking in there!

My favorite is the color of your lower cabinets. Perfect! We are just now ending our first phase of budget-friendly renovations after moving into our new home A YEAR AGO October 1st. I naively thought we could accomplish MUCH more for MUCH less MUCH faster than we have. I think the extra time has surprised me more than the extra money. Each project seems to take us 4 weeks: 1 week for planning, 1 week for purchasing supplies, 1-2 weeks to complete (with a few days added in for recovering before we can start the next project. The only phase of each project that doesn't seem to cause me any problems is my built in days of recovering. If you don't mind me stealing your idea, I think I'll start a new thread asking those with budget-friendly, DIY makeovers to reveal their handiwork. You never know, maybe we'll see something cool we can plagiarize. J/K, I always give credit where credit is due! :) Lovely kitchen and great work!

Wow, Kathy, I think I'm as impressed with your "can do" attitude and common sense as your impressive kitchen redo. Thanks so much for sharing. Love all your color sections, especially the way the fabric in your kitchen window curtain pulls it all together. Before, the kitchen was chaotic, and now your colors are so soothing. Also love the way you rearranged the cabinets to maximize your space and storage. By the way, I know what you mean about measuring as that scares me too when I'm spending real money.

I do have two suggestions for when you save up more $$$. The first is that you order full extension drawers, or trays, to go inside the large base cabinet with the double doors on the right side of the range. I ordered from Quikdrawers.com for the cabinets in my dining room and am extremely happy with the company and the result. They make a quality product, the guy who helps you (Keith) knows his stuff, and spacing between the trays is fully adjustable to maximize storage for what works best for you. Those pull outs certainly beat standing on your head and rearranging to see what's in the back. The second suggestion is to add a light rail and led puck lights run by batteries that you can just tap to get them to come on. My daughter-in-law knows a number of her neighbors who have used that approach and that it works pretty well if you don't want to go the electrician route. Those lights should be available at the big box stores or online elsewhere.

Again, five stars on your project all the way around. It is well worth all the time, stress, and worry. Also, your low budget is hard to believe.

Great job! I love the floor and the lower cabinets also!

Dang. I thought I had commented. This is a Wow job. Budget or not. Enjoy it!

Kathy, you must truly take pride in what you have done. It is such a marvellous job and a wonderfuldifference from the old to the new. Thanks also for sharing all the details. I second an earlier comment on more DIYs and small kitchen makeovers.

Kathy

What an outstanding job for a first time DIYer. My husband and I were DIYers for over 40 yrs on the house we just sold so I know what it's like to work full time, save up money and then spend your weekends working on a house project. You should be very proud.

Beautious and impressive!!

My jaw dropped. I was thinking your poor cabs looked like they owed you nuttin' but then I moved to your first After pic. O.M.G., that's a beautiful job!

It must be such a pleasure working in this room now. :) Congrats. You did an Ahhhmazing job! (Don't forget H4H sells doors, too!)

Your remodel is so good looking and should give anyone with determination and YouTube inspiration. I love that you changed what wasn't working and kept what was. So many of the remodels we see on these forums are done with the highest of high-end components that most of us never will be able to afford. As the Irish say, "Good on ya!"

Thanks again everyone for the kind words. I found this forum quite a few years ago and drool over some of these kitchen remodels. But truthfully, they cost more than 25-50% of the total value of our small house! LOL I am glad I found Barker thru this forum and decided to update the doors. Replacing all the cabinet doors (plus one broken drawer) was about $780. Way far less than replacing the cabinets. Our boxes are in good shape and they are wood. I sanded all the insides and put a couple coats of polyacrylic on them. The hubster didn't help much, he did tear out 3/4 of our old floor. But that's about it. home improvement is not his thing.

I have one photo with a fur baby photo bomb. This is Hana, the cat food culprit!

hey! By H4H selling doors, I meant door-doors. The kind you still want to replace. $25 - $30 around here. Hello Hana! :)