BEFORE & AFTER : KITCHEN

February 2011:
Kitchen as seen on first viewing of this house

March 2011:  Kitchen during demolition 

May 2011: Wallace, replacing kitchen floor joists

March 2011: Michael clears out crawl space below kitchen

December 2012:  Completed kitchen

WHITE ON WHITE ON HAWTHORNE

A PEEK INTO MY NEW KITCHEN

   It is time for another BEFORE and AFTER post.  Warning: Extremely squeamish souls might want to scroll down fast or skip this post altogether.  Mind you, I have not posted a couple of the worst 'before' photos because my stomach tends to heave when I look at them.

BEFORE

Sink - March 2011

Under stairs - March 2011
(Our refrigerator now resides in this location)

Kitchen - March 2011

Now, try to ignore the cleaning and construction clutter on the counter tops as you grab a peak of the 'after'. 

AFTER

Sink - August 2012

Cabinets - August 2012

Cabinets and flooring - August 2012

Cabinets and lighting - August 2012

AMAZING TALENT

Cabinet from Caravati's

   
    Check out this facebook link.  Our kitchen cabinets are being installed and our cabinetmaker Roy is doing a fantastic job.  He has incorporated an early 1900 kitchen cabinet from a home on Three Chopt Rd. that we got from Caravati's  and 4 old corbels I picked up at Paul's Place, both local antique and salvage shops.  In addition, Roy has used the last bit of bead board, original to the house and leftover from building the stair well wall, to line the back of the book shelf area on the kitchen island.

Original bead board recycled as backing for bookshelves in kitchen island

Corbels shelved at Paul's Place

My kitchen is going to be so beautiful I am eager to begin enjoying it all the time.

*  Roy, if you are reading this, look at the shamrock corbels on the shelf next to the ones you put in my island!  Are they calling out "HOFFERT,  TAKE ME HOME!" ?

THE CABINETS ARE COMING! THE CABINETS ARE COMING!

Watch, my readers, and you shall see

The beautiful cabinets that are coming to me,

On the fourth of June, in 2012:

Arriving at Hawthorne both drawers and shelves

Cabinets galore for my family.

Ok, admittedly it's a weak attempt at linking to a Longfellow poem.   I am simply excited about my new kitchen cabinets.

Roy arrives with the new cabinets

The antique cabinet salvaged from an old home on Three Chopt Rd. also arrives

This is the man who will transform my kitchen (how about his Celtic logo...I like it)

The plans were drawn up by Leon Reynolds of Reynolds Architectural Woodwork