my almost finished vintage white kitchen

So here's my kitchen, and although it's still a little bit of a work in progress.. the bulk of what we planned on doing with the remodel is finished and I've been LOVING it, even with some of the old lights missing and the wires hanging out of the ceiling!!!

What still needs to be done to finish what we started:


*some electrical changes & install new lighting
*paint top portion of wall above cabinets
*order the scalloped edge pull down blinds for windows above sink and side bay windows
*frame in and dry wall a top section of the wall where the desk used to be to accomodate the sliding hardware system for the old barn pantry door
*sand over wall repairs where the desk used to be and repaint
*buy and install curtain rod above sliding door and hang curtain


That should wrap up phase one of the kitchen remodel but in order to look at the whole thing and say it's completely finished, I still have another phase of bigger projects that I want to have done (wood planked ceiling, painting my wood floor and replacing my sliding glass door with double dutch doors!!!) Even know that's only three more things, they're all pretty big things to have done in and of themselves so I'll just have to try and be patiently waiting while we save for and do them when we can!


Just for the fun, let's take a stroll over the years through some random photos of my kitchen..


This is what it looked like when we bought our house back in 1998. All oak cabinets with brass fixtures. YUK! Eewww.. and those ugly stools!

In 2002 I'd had it with all the oak, brass fixtures and white walls everywhere, so I jumped on the paint-everything-dark-band-wagon and painted the entire house in dark earthy colors, started adding lots of black furniture and in 2004 right after my youngest was born, I had our kitchen cabinets painted red, replaced the brass with oil rubbed bronze and painted a faux brick backsplash.

Then a few years ago I felt my style shifting in a big way and I found that turquoise tea kettle in the photo below and that's what started my planning of a white vintage farmhouse kitchen with turquoise and yellow and touches of red.

Slowly... I started weeding out existing decor and furniture, giving it away and selling it and using the money to replace what I'd sold with new things for my still un-remodeled kitchen. I'd been dreaming of lightening everything up for so long, but I knew we didn't have the money for a big kitchen remodel yet so last fall 2010 I repainted the walls in my family-kitchen-dining area and painted over that darn faux brick backsplash I'd grown to hate with a passion.. and between that and my new white dining table I'd gotten a few months before, it carried me through until we were able to start the big remodel this spring!

And now... I have my new almost finished white kitchen and I'm swooning over it everyday!

Here's some links to posts about the remodel:

post #1

post #2

*I'm linking up to Jennifer Rizzo, whose kitchen transformation was a big part of my inspiration!!! My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia's link party, love her blog too! And..

click here.