I got my new counters and appliances (pic heavy)

[SW FL Dem]

Several months ago, I asked for advice on updating my kitchen. Thanks to all (especially Hubs2sparkly) for your advice and input. The counters were installed a few weeks ago and the appliances arrived yesterday. We still have to install the tumbled marble backsplash and change the cabinet hardware. I am really happy with the results.

Here is the before pic - I always hated the forest green formica!!


Here's the same view after. The Silestone makes a huge difference.


I love my new convection oven and microwave


The fridge is awesome.


So are the dishwasher and sink.

[housewolf]

1. Gorgeous!

What an excellent job! It's really gorgeous. Lucky, lucky you!


I love the countertop, it's really pretty. I'm sure you'll be happy with it.

[wildeyed]

2. Nice, SW FL!

Bet you were glad to see the last of that green counter top! It looks really nice. Have you cooked in it yet? How is the stove?

[anitar1]

3. It's beautiful ! Enjoy.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Wowzer! Wowzer!

That really looks great! I **know** you're gunna love it.

That Silestone is the same pattern my ex used in her kitchen redo about a year ago. Curiously, she also had green formica counters to start. The change in color made the kitchen seem waaaaaay brighter than it was.

What's the white band where the backsplash is? I realize you're going to put tumbled marble in, but is that some temporary backsplash? I just can't make out at all from your pictures what it is. I can see that its Silestone behind the sink, under the bar, but what is it in the other areas, like behind the range?

[SW FL Dem]

5. The white is drywall

where they ripped out the green formica backsplash. I've been to lazy to do anything with it :).

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Okaaaaaaay then!

:rofl:

I understand what that's about!

That reminds me of a funny story. My youngest son was over here a year or three ago with his girlfriend. Sparkly Jr and I are talking with them. He had this red spot on the side of his nose. I saw it and assumed it was a minor injury, so I asked him what it was. He ignored me at the same time Saprkly Jr kicked me. But being the ever concerned father, I asked again what it was.

"Its a ZIT, Dad. A ZIT! Now you know!"

Sparkly Jr punched me in the arm and my son's girlfriend and I laughed. Pretty soon everyone else was laughing too.

But I felt silly. Just like I do now for asking about your white stripe. :)

[SW FL Dem]

7. LOL

Don't feel silly! At least you cared enough to notice and comment. The world would be a much better place if more people did that. I can't count the times I have embarrassed myself like you did with your son, and my son is only 14. I have much more time to humiliate myself.

[Lugnut]

8. Gorgeous!

I love that fridge. ;)

[NMDemDist2]

9. wonderful!! I'm so jealous

I'm painting the kitchen over the 4th. We decided on gray with blue trim using my teapot as an inspiration piece.

I'm also gonna make Roman Shades for the windows. I'll put up pics too in a couple weeks

Yours turned out SO beautiful! I really am jealous, but new counter tops aren't in the budget here yet..... :cry:

[SW FL Dem]

11. Can't wait to see your pics!

I love your teapot and think that it is a great theme to build on. You are braver than I am, I don't think I would ever try to make Roman Shades.

I lived with the green for several years before we could afford to update the kitchen. In this economy, if I can't pay cash, I don't do it.

[eleny]

10. It looks fabulous and so roomy!

Your colors are so smooth and then punctuated nicely by the stainless. You did a beautiful job of getting your new kitchen together!!!

[SW FL Dem]

12. Thanks Everyone. I forgot to add that we bought blue

The appliances came from a smaller local retailer who is a big supporter of the local Dem party. The service was great and the prices beat Home Depot and Lowe's.

[Phentex]

13. It all looks very nice.

Good work!

[yellowdogintexas]

14. beautiful beautiful.

You have a small kitchen like mine. I like your stove placement. I was going to put my stove across the corner, to eliminate a dead corner, and most likely will do that, but yours is slightly off the corner and looks as if it might be easier to fit the cabinets around it.

Opinion?

I am taking a wider than average galley kitchen and turning it into a U shaped by removing the wall oven and cook top, putting the refrigerator where the wall oven was, and putting a regular range in the old refrigerator spot, except across the corner. Then I am planning to use a combination of some new unpainted cabinets and recycling as much of the existing cabinetry on to fill in the gaps. I see no use in getting new cabinets when the other side of the kitchen will essentially be untouched. They are painted white anyway which makes it easier.

I will come out with increased counter and upper cabinet storage without moving any walls or other major construction. Glad I did not do all this when we first moved in as the plan has evolved over time and what I would have done then would not have pleased me nearly as much as I think this will.

I love your counter top and the floor tile too. I am thinking of tiling my counters as Silestone may be out of reach for my budget. I have a very large family room to tile along with the kitchen.

[SW FL Dem]

17. Thanks I was lucky

and didn't have to move any appliances or change the cabinets. My house is only 8 years old. I am not an expert, but IMHO any change that increases counter space and upper cabinets is a good thing. Hopefully our resident kitchen design expert Husb2Sparkly will see your post and give you his input.

[demnan]

15. Very beautiful

I have a kitchen full of peeling wall paper I need to address one of these days, and my cabinets are horrible and sag.

Next year I guess!

[Midlodemocrat]

16. Gorgeous!

I just got a new stove, a JennAir with the ceramic top and I love it. Hoping for a kitchen re-do in 2006. I have a small L-shaped kitchen and really need additional cabinets.