Kitchen Week 2 Progress// One Room Challenge Update

 

Hello and welcome to week two of our kitchen makeover for the One Room Challenge! 

I am ready to share some updates with you, while this weeks updates don't offer much to look at they are pretty big in the grand scheme of getting this kitchen done!

Here is a list of everything we have checked off this week: 

• Scheduled countertops - for next week 
• Ordered sink
• Ordered kitchen faucet 
• Removed ceiling fan 
• Removed kitchen desk- it is being replaced with a new cabinet this week 
• Measure for new cabinet doors scheduled for end of week
  

Like I said not much to look like, but by next week we will already be seeing big changes!

Countertops: 

A few weeks back I visited the slab yard and picked out the countertops I wanted. I went back last week to confirm and see them again before putting down my deposit. I was happy with the original choice, Della Terra Quartz in Silver Stallion. So we scheduled with our fabricator to complete the process next week. How they will do it is come on Monday, level out our bar top, take out the backsplash, and template for the countertops. Then 2-3 days later they will return with the finished countertops and install. So we will be without a kitchen for a week but at the end of it we will have: new countertops, a level peninsula (this is greatly going to change the look and function of the kitchen), removed backsplash, a new sink and a new faucet. 

We also did pick a different countertop for the island, but we are going to have that installed later once the island is complete.  Here is a picture of the main countertop sample next to what we are thinking for the island. I love the contrast it would give and the veining it has.

Kitchen Desk 

In true 90s kitchen fashion our kitchen featured a nice little desk in the corner, however we knew we would not have any use for it. Plus once moving in we realized it was very low and a standard chair could not even fit under the desk for sitting, so it was not at all functional. We had the desk removed by our handyman and asked if they could build us a basic base cabinet to replace it. We could not buy a stock cabinet because it is an odd shaped cabinet. The other side of the kitchen mirrors the side with the desk so they made a copy of the base cabinet on the other side. It is being installed in the space as I type this! 

Cabinet Doors 

As soon as we decided that we wanted to do a kitchen makeover, not a gut renovation I knew that I wanted to replace the cabinet doors, rather than just paint the existing cabinets. I wanted to do this for several reasons, the first being it is an easy way to change the style of you cabinets, we are going to get shaker style doors to modernize the space. The second reason is because you can get the cabinet doors in paint ready materials, or some companies will even paint them for you. This ensures a professional paint job on the cabinets that hopefully will not chip. 

I will have a video up soon about the process of ordering new doors and several companies you can use to order new doors to reface your cabinets yourself. I looked into many options and had a company picked out. My realtor is a family friend and she saw my video about our reno plans and suggested I call her cabinet guy, because he can order cabinet doors for me and professionally install them, he also gave me the option to have them painted. For all of these reasons I decided going through him would be our best option, he is coming on Friday to do the official measure for new doors and place the order. They have a 3 week lead time so in about a month hopefully we will be installing new doors!

 I cant wait to share next weeks update, when we will hopefully have countertops in (fingers crossed) 

 Thanks for following along! 

 Emily