I know you just have to be proud of this one!! I don't know how it was befor the remodel, but it sure does look great now. I love the color mixtures. It looks like someplace to call home, but yet has a some modern features too. I like a lot. I see we have the same taste - the box by your TV. My granite was just installed 2 days ago and I haven't put everthing back yet. I know I'll have to find a special place for it now - LOL. Good work, especially since it was a DIY!! gng

Posted by dgmarie (My Page) on Thu, May 8, 08 at 11:28 Somewhere out there a little Italian grandmother is wondering why you remodelled a perfectly good kitchen! ;-) actually that would be my Finnish mother who was wondering that!! I'm not even kidding, she thought I should've left it the way it was (although that's when we gutted the whole thing and she was looking at an empty room, she thought we were wasting money!) and she absolutely adored the wallpaper- green & orange, her favorite colors!! lol

I love your new look, but I also love that your before pictures look like a kitchen that gets lived in! The pics with all life's stuff gathered here and there on the counters and stuck to the fridge just look like home. LOL!

Barncatz, I saved that photo before we joined Houzz, maybe two years ago, and it's on my computer. It's probably on page 58 of your search. There's something about the molding that makes the tile look like it belongs there. I think it could work with molding the width of the door frame or a little narrower. Do you have crown molding in the kitchen and adjacent room? Now that I think of it, I posted this once and someone nailed a piece of molding up to get a feel of how it'd look in their home. Try it! You could even tape some tile to the wall.