Kitchen- DURING

I sold the old fridge & stove on craigslist.  The new applliances are coming on Tuesday.  Matt took down the hood too.  We're waiting on my uncle to install the new one.
The wall color is BM Pale Smoke.  The color changes depending on the light.  Sometimes it looks very silver, sometimes gray, sometimes blue.  It's going to look so good with the stainless steel appliances.

See how blue it looks here.

This picture looks more silvery to me.

Ignore the mess.  We've been working hard.

This looks blue again.

After some polish & some new hardware, I think the cabinets look 100x better.  Once we pulled the old pulls off, there was a ring from where they were.  We had to buy these really chunky pulls to cover it up.  I'm glad we did though.  I think it looks great!

Here's a look at the bottom cabinets.

Here's the new stove & hood.  Thanks to my Uncle for installing the hood.  Yippie!

Here's the new fridge, still with it's shipping plastic on it.  Awww.

And my favorite appliance of all.  The DISHWASHER!!!!!  xoxoxoxo!!!!!  It's been 10 years since I've had a dishwasher.  YIPPIE!!!!











Our next project is to replace that awful floor.  I've had my eye on some concrete/cement looking tile.  Can't wait to start that project.

We have so much cabinet space, everything has plenty of room.

Kitchen Inspiration

The color we chose for the kitchen is called Pale Smoke.  That's the wall color in this picture.

According to http://www.decorpad.com/, where I found this picture, this wall color is also Pale Smoke.  Maybe this is what it'll look like with little natural light.

I'm so into gray right now. I love this!  The backsplash is a bit much though.

I like the gray floors & white cabinets here.  Although, I think the flooring may be a little too dark for our space.  I still like it.

This backsplash is nice.

I really like the way this backsplash was done.

I like the colors going on in this picture (if it was just a little lighter), although it's hard to picture in my kitchen since it looks so different from this.

This is just the look I imagined for our kitchen.  I love the counter tops & floor tile especially.

I keep gravitating to this flooring.  I really like the slate look, but I don't think this floor is slate.  Hmmm...  And the kitchen is almost identical to the picture above it.

These are travertine floors.  This is the shade of gray I think we need.  I also like the layout of the tile.  I like the look, but I guess it's not good for kitchens & food spills.  Boo.

I want this.  I saw it online at Lowe's for $174.

This one is also from Lowe's for $182.

This would look nice too.  Also from Lowe's for $129.

This is pretty cool too.  Notice the inside of the shade?  And it's only $99 at Lowes.

What a beautiful kitchen.  There's so many things about this kitchen that I like but I especially love the lights over the island.

I really like the tile & the lighting in this kitchen.  The wall color is similar to our kitchen.  The sink's pretty nice too, although I don't want a porcelain sink.

This is soapstone.  I like this with the little diamond shape in the middle.  That would look nice with a glass tile.

Look at the storage/organization in these cabinets.  Wow!  There's even drawers in the toe kicks!  Drool.