Kitchen, Bathroom and Pantry - Before and After

We still need the countertops and backsplash installed (happens on February 1st and 2nd), and a bunch of misc painting to do, but the change so far is still pretty impressive.

You can still see all of the Remodel photos here, but since the coolest part is the Before & After, I'm just putting that here.

Looking in from Living Room - Before:



Looking in from Living Room - After:



Looking down the stairs - before (didn't use the wide angle, should have):



Looking down the stairs - after:



Sink Wall - before:



sink Wall - after. That's a FULL SIZE dishwasher, btw!:



Looking in from dining room - before:



Looking in from dining room - after. Notice how the fridge is moved down some and the first cabinet is angled. This makes the entryway feel much more open. Well, it IS much more open!:



Kitchen Floor - before:



Kitchen Floor - after. Bamboo. drool. The old floor, btw, was saved in order to "patch" the dining room floor, which is in much worse shape:



View from the back door - before:



View from the back door - after (pantry door closed). A lot of people seem "confused" by this part (mostly people who walk into the house and were all "wait. wasn't there a bathroom here?" The pantry was built in the area where the litter box and cat food (and cat!) were in the "before" photo. As in, it's a totally new room that didn't exist before. The door, as you can see, was "stolen" from the old coat closet.:



View from back door - after (pantry door open) The area below the bottom shelf? Will soon be one large wine rack + small wine fridge. Oh? and the back wall - the one with no shelves on it? that's EXACTLY where the old bathroom door was:



Bathroom - before:



Bathroom - after. Photo taken from the opposite wall as the before photo:



Bathroom - after. Standing in the doorway:



Bathroom - after. shower. You can also see the reflection of the new light:



Bathroom/entryway floor - before.:



Bathroom/entryway/pantry floor - after. (please ignore the construction dust):



(As I went through to create this entry, I realize I took a bunch more angles of "before" pictures than "after", so I might have to take some more photos tomorrow!)

Misc:

One of the only cabinet requirements I had was a pull-out spice rack. LOVE IT (it's the cabinet directly to the left of the stove. Directly to the right of the stove is a pull out cookie-sheet thingy):



Handles! weird, btw, that I had to decide WHERE on the cabinets they would go! Just one example of the million tiny decisions you need to make when doing a remodel like this. No way I could buy a new home where you need to make all these decisions for every room!



Contrast between cabinets and floor. It's hard to get all the colors exactly right in the photos (I think the floor looks darker in person), but you can definitely get the feel for the contrast. Love it!