New kitchen finished just in time for the wedding!
So on June 15, we started a massive renovation of our country house kitchen, laundry room, mudroom and walk-out bathroom. Our daughter’s wedding is this Friday, October 8. I was confident that we would finish in time but the confidence was not shared by DD and her fiance, who have been living out here with us since the beginning of Covid. Well, it all worked out—we are done! Just a few minor punch list items to go. Also waiting on our new stools and table and chairs formthe breakfast area. I just had to share!
One really great thing is that I figured out how to reuse almost all of my old kitchen, which we refreshed six years ago when we bought the house, with all new appliances, new counters and faucet and sanded/clearcoated cabinets. But I just couldn’t live with the slate floors anymore (interesting but very poorly executed) and other things really needed some improvement,
so we bit the bullet and started over.
A majority of the old cabinets and Whitehaven sink and counters now live in the laundry room and our upstairs bonus room. The soapstone counters, which I really loved (but wanted to go lighter) were recut for the laundry room and bathroom. We re-used the Waterstone faucet at the main sink and panelled the Miele dishwasher. Kept the Pottery Barn pendants—just added a third one. The fridge went to the garage. Only the induction range and hood were discarded, and they went to habitat.
Attached is a photo of the old kitchen, three photos of the new kitchen and a shot of the laundry room.
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2 years agoHere are some details
Cabinets are Bilotta Kitchens private label. The base cabinets are rift-cut white oak and the wall cabinets are maple (painted BM Simply White to match the trim in the rest of the house). The perimeter base cabinets were bleached, then stained to achieve the taupe color I was looking for. I did a bunch of custom inserts for spices, a double cutlery drawer insert, separators for a few of the other drawers, one lower cabinet for cutting boards and sheet pans and a cabinet over the ovens divided for platters). Big and deep drawers for pots and pans and two of those dedicated to plastic storage containers.
counters—Taj Mahal quartzite
Floors—porcelain Demure Field Taupe (Galleria)
Backsplash—Soho Studio rumba gris 3x12 (I needed to marry the kitchen colors with the wall paint in the rest of the house which is BM Old Prairie—it look a fair amount of effort to find something that sometimes looked a bit taupe and sometimes had a hint of green)
cabinet hardware—Top Knobs Ascendra in honey bronze
Fridge/freezer—SZ 36”
Miele 36” induction cooktop
Miele combi-steam oven
Miele convection oven
Miele speed oven (I only did this because i wanted the microwave in the island and i wanted it to have more functionality—I have this same oven in the city and it is my primary oven there— really like it even though we almost never use the speed functions)
Miele dishwasher—reused existing one that was five years old
XO 36” retractable hood—this hood is perfectly fine but not quite on par with the Modernaire hood that i have in my apartment kitchen, or even the Broan that I replaced with this (I had put a Broan in the old kitchen, which was great, but it was only 30” so couldn’t use it)—I liked the look and save most grease-producing cooking for outdoors.
Pendants—Pottery Barn Flynn
can lights—forgot exactly what brand but they are 3500K. I’m very glad I didn’t go with 4000K.
undercabinet lights were built into the cabinets. They are 4000K.
Main sink faucets and air switch—Waterstone (re-used the old ones)
Main sink—Kohler Whitehaven 36” tall apron (moved the same sink with short apron to laundry room)
prep sink—Elkay Crosstown
prep sink faucet—Brizo Litze
XO beverage fridge (moved old wine fridge to laundry room (I included one additional photo that shows it)
Pantry
barn doors—had door panels made by a door company and ordered hardware online
Washer/dryer—Electrolux
we are still waiting on our table and chairs for the breakfast area and counter stools (Rove Concepts tulip table and wishbone chairs, Angeloncounter stools in off-white microfiber ”leather” with brass legs)
i still can’t believe that we got done in less than four months!!!Jim G
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2 years agoThanks Jim. closer photo of
backsplash attached.
It looks gray in the photo but it really is much more taupe.Jim G
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