Unfortunately we didn't get real good "before" pictures because we started on this project the first night we moved in. The original kitchen was very closed off from the dining room and hallway with upper and lower cabinets all the way around suspended from a bulkhead. There was a suspended ceiling with 4' fluorescent lights.
We wanted to open the kitchen up more to the dining room, cut out a section of counter so we could walk between the kitchen and dining room easily, move the location of the refrigerator, create a small island for the kids to sit at, and update the cabinets. Someday we'll get around to the floors too.
On the very first night we owned the house, we removed the upper cabinets, which opened up the space a lot.
The next step was the replace the fluorescent lights. Long-term we wanted recessed (can) lights, but we weren't sure about the final layout of the kitchen, so we didn't know exactly where we wanted the recessed lights. So short-term we put in a flexible track light. Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of the new track light, but it's visible in some shots later on. At this point work stopped for the summer with outside/garage/boat related projects getting the priority until winter.
With the recessed ceiling/fluorescent lights gone, we could remove the bulkheads that the cabinets hung from.
We wanted to open the kitchen up more to the dining room, cut out a section of counter so we could walk between the kitchen and dining room easily, move the location of the refrigerator, create a small island for the kids to sit at, and update the cabinets. Someday we'll get around to the floors too.
On the very first night we owned the house, we removed the upper cabinets, which opened up the space a lot.
The next step was the replace the fluorescent lights. Long-term we wanted recessed (can) lights, but we weren't sure about the final layout of the kitchen, so we didn't know exactly where we wanted the recessed lights. So short-term we put in a flexible track light. Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of the new track light, but it's visible in some shots later on. At this point work stopped for the summer with outside/garage/boat related projects getting the priority until winter.
With the recessed ceiling/fluorescent lights gone, we could remove the bulkheads that the cabinets hung from.
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