Kitchen Remodel Phase III COMPLETED!

This past week we completed phase III of our kitchen remodel, which was new cabinets. We had our existing cabinets refaced and we also had additional custom made cabinets put into the kitchen. They are made of Alder and the color is called Harvest. After all is said and done we will have doubled our cabinet and countertop space.

Everything has been moved back into the cabinets and we have empty shelves! It is super exciting to have all of my huge kitchen items such as my crock pot and Kitchen Aid mixer to all have homes inside of cabinets, instead of scattered around in crazy places since they wouldn't fit in the kitchen before. Phase IV is new countertops. We are in the process of getting estimates and picking a company. The last phase will be new bamboo flooring in the kitchen and dining room. I really, really can't wait to have those two things completed. Then with a new coat of paint we'll have a awesome new kitchen.

BEFORE (existing cabinets)

AFTER (existing cabinets)

BEFORE (this is where the wall between the dining room and kitchen use to be)

AFTER (with new custom made cabinets)

We now have TWO pull out cabinets with trash cans in them!!! 

We have so much more room in the pantry getting rid of the 

recycle, yard waste, garbage and dog food bins, 

all now neatly stored in a beautiful cabinet.

AFTER (looking into the kitchen from the dining room.)

There will be a bar seating area when we get the new countertops in.

 AFTER

 Click here to see pictures from our previous phases and other before pictures.

We used a local family owned company called Heritage Homecraft. They are the only company in our area that uses real wood to reface cabinets (instead of laminate). They did a fantastic job and were super patient with us when on the 2nd day of installation we asked them to move the placement of the new cabinets. Our original plan of having the bar area into the kitchen made no sense after seeing the cabinets in place.