Kitchen Renovation Update

I’m excited today to share a new home post with you: our kitchen renovation update. We’re about 3/4 of the way through the makeover.

If you read my post on our master bathroom renovation, you know that we had run into some pretty long permitting delays with our home renovation due to COVID.  Since buying our home last Halloween, our three to four month home makeover has turned into a full year.

But now, we’re about a month from being finished up with our three major projects: a complete gut of the kitchen and master bathroom and adding a room to our basement for storage for our store, Confête.

Kitchen Renovation Update

So let’s revisit what this baby used to look like:

Our house is a 1911 Portland craftsman bungalow.  The house itself was in great shape when we bought it.  It just really needed updating and some tweaks to make the space a little more functional.

For the kitchen, it was a complete gut, complete with moving a door from the side to the back of the kitchen.  So you can see in the pictures above, the new door is where the cabinets to the right of the dishwasher used to be.

Our big goals in the space were to create a more open concept kitchen-living room entertaining space, brighten the space with a lighter palette of tiles and cabinetry and make it easier to get into our backyard by moving the door from the side yard to the backyard.  We also didn’t have any sort of pantry, so we added one in the space below.

The wall above becomes the below plans by moving our refrigerator and microwave, adding a coffee nook with open shelving and a floor to ceiling pantry.

This is a picture from the early days of demo.  That wall that Jake is standing next to is now totally open space to the living room. 

This door and window are now a wall, ready for our range and hood.  Pic circa late April.

The above picture becomes this:

Which is currently…

We opted to paint the ceiling and walls ourselves; this saved us THOUSANDS of dollars.  Plus so much of the kitchen is covered by tiles anyways, we felt it was a safe space for us to paint.

We used Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace.

The floors are now down, and they’re in the process of installing the cabinets.  You can see a peek of the floor here.

Choosing flooring was actually one of the hardest decisions.  We would’ve loved to refinish the original Doug Fir hardwood floors, but they weren’t underneath the old Terracotta tiles.

Our house has a mix of original hardwoods and hardwoods that were added later in its lifespan, so they don’t all match.  We wanted to try to stick with hardwood, but in order to have the kitchen floors not stick out like a sore thumb, our designer recommended we do something totally different there.  That’s why we decided for a light herringbone engineered wood.

I would’ve loved to bring back a funky or Terracotta tile, but it was just too expensive.

Now for the inspiration and the details of what we’ve picked out so far.

I like to think of this space as clean California cool meets Mediterranean.

Cabinets: Sektion with Axstad Doors in White, Ikea

Countertops:  Calcutta Gold, Silestone

Secondary Backsplash- Casablance Ziane, Bedrosians

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