Our Kitchen is Complete!

Our Kitchen is finally complete!

We have been here 1 year and have finally made our kitchen feel like home! It was the first room we started and it's the room that has come the longest way.

After a couple coats of grey paint, to enhance the white cabinets, we are done.

Looking back on our kitchen reno journey, there were so many times we wanted to pull all our hair out. Often, we felt that all the compromises we had to make were going to result in a kitchen that was better than the kitchen that we started with but by no means our dream kitchen.

We looked at countless DIY blogs for ideas on how to cut costs but always found other bloggers' ideas of a "tight budget" was about 4 times the amount of our $7000 budget. At one time, we were told by our contractor that our entire budget was half the price of his other clients' floor budget =P Sorry Dave, only $1000 for our floor please and thank you!

If you want to know how we cut costs and puled off this kitchen reno on our tight budget, check out our Tell All Thursday: Kitchen Renovation blog post.

We tried to paint the trim around the sliding doors but they had been previously painted or stained with something that caused our paint to peel/crack. Also, we toyed with the idea of putting the same bead board ceiling in the kitchen but the idea of standing on a ladder, holding bead board to the vaulted ceiling, 15 feet high, seemed like a recipe for disaster. However, we really needed to cover this discolored patch that was left from removing the florescent light.

So since we are hiring a professional painter for the exterior of our house, we're going to get him to paint the trim and our kitchen ceiling as well. 

But for now, all reno on our part is at a halt becauseeee we have done all that we can do. On our part, our kitchen is complete! A little bittersweet but it's finally off of our Home Sweet Honey Do List.