After years of reimagining our kitchen structure and design, in January 2024 we started a brand new part of our kitchen transform following our preliminary $95 price range kitchen replace. Dwelling and entertaining right here for 5 years helped type our concepts on easy methods to enhance the kitchen’s total operate and stream. So now that we’re (lastly!) at this part of our transform, we plan to work throughout the sq. footage we now have with a couple of budget-saving twists that I’m comfortable to share.
Present state of our kitchen // Listed here are a couple of earlier than and after footage of our kitchen after our first price range kitchen transform. You may as well tour our residence from the start and take a look at the itemizing images earlier than we moved in.
Small Kitchen Hacks & Concepts
Hyperlinks to buy my kitchen
I really feel like we characterize most owners in that we don’t have a vast price range for residence enchancment, and we solely do initiatives as our price range and time enable. Understanding the nuance of your areas is such an vital issue when crafting a brand new room design, particularly when you’re reworking on a price range. That is very true for kitchens! Our circa-2005 home has a couple of quirks that we wished to repair the minute we took possession of the home, and we’re so comfortable that point has lastly arrived!
2024 Kitchen Rework Guidelines
Timeless to me means making a basic basis, modernized with paint & decor. Right here’s how we plan to create a timeless and basic kitchen that (we hope) will stay in model for years to return.
- Repair our onerous water (✅We put in Culligan with reverse osmosis)
- Put money into high quality home equipment (✅Completed! We’re loving our KitchenAid merchandise)
- Deal with awkward areas (we moved the massive pantry to our laundry room, extra on this quickly!)
- Replace flooring all through the primary ground (✅Completed! Come see which flooring we selected)
- Add seating & broaden countertop house (aka, rip & substitute our island. Extra on this quickly!)
- Backsplash: I’m dedicated to beadboard on the partitions of the kitchen for a timeless look
- Repaint cupboards (probably, I’m happy with grey in properties so long as it’s blended with hotter colours)
Fast DIY Kitchen Transformations // As a substitute of a full kitchen cupboard substitute, we’re relocating a couple of base cupboards that we salvaged from the island. The plan is to repaint if wanted, and substitute or replace {hardware}. We are also engaged on a supply for putting in glass cupboards. Paint is all the time my go-to for a fast and straightforward change in a kitchen!
We additionally plan to make use of beadboard wallpaper (or possibly the actual factor) on our kitchen partitions as an alternative of a full tile backsplash. Tile and lighting are inclined to age-out in a kitchen the quickest. So retaining these objects as timeless as doable are the aim.
Luxurious Kitchen Upgrades // New flooring was put in this week! The ground has been the most important funding thus far since we addressed the complete first ground, which was round 1,250 sq. toes at $2.60 a sq. foot. Upgrading our whole-home water system with Culligan was additionally essential since our water was so onerous. We felt we wanted to do that earlier than investing in new home equipment. We’re additionally within the technique of designing our personal island and we’ve already chosen quartz counter tops. Will share extra on all of this quickly!
Want Inspiration?
For 12+ years we now have been updating our residence on a really small price range. My 14-Web page information consists of:
- “6 Ideas: Easy methods to Prioritize Your Initiatives”
- The FIRST factor I all the time deal with in each room
- What to do when you could have $0 to spend
- Recognizing “good bones” in each house
- What to do if you end up uninspired
